Proponents of Zen to the West emphasize disproportionately the amount of Mahayana Buddhism in Zen, probably in order to dignify the indisputably magical Taoist ideas with more respectable Buddhist metaphysic.

Proponents emphasize that technology should be implemented only in the context of careful strategic and operational planning.

Proponents also typically emphasize the grace and mercy of God toward all men, although teaching also that only some are predestined for salvation.

Proponents for the court decision emphasize that the testimony established that Mauchly definitely had complete access to Atanasoff's machine and the documents describing it.

Proponents believe the movement transcends such " modernist " labels of " conservative " and " liberal ," calling the movement a " conversation " to emphasize its developing and decentralized nature, its vast range of standpoints, and its commitment to dialogue.

Proponents of these theories state that people often have learning processes which emphasize visual, auditory, and kinesthetic systems of experience.

Proponents also emphasize that CDR helped to put medical, educational, or other campaigns into national effect and that, being organized on a geographical basis, they also act as centers for many who do not work in farms or factories and hence include a large proportion of female membership.

* Choice: Proponents of voluntary euthanasia emphasize that choice is a fundamental principle for liberal democracies and free market systems.

Proponents claim that frequently institutions are forced to operate at higher efficiencies when they are allowed to compete and that any resulting job losses in the public sector would be offset by the increased demand for jobs in the private sector.

Proponents argued that a new city would be able to better control development and provide increased police and fire service, while opponents argued that the new city would increase taxes and redevelop residential neighborhoods for revenue-generating businesses.

Proponents of the aquatic ape hypothesis believe that part of human evolution includes some aquatic adaptation, which has been said to explain human hairlessness, bipedalism, increased subcutaneous fat, descended larynx, vernix caseosa, a hooded nose and various other physiological and anatomical changes.

Proponents, on the other hand, note that Asian American enrollment rates dramatically increased at a majority of UC campuses.

Proponents of scientific management held that rationalizing the organization with precise sets of instructions and time-motion studies would lead to increased productivity.

Proponents of RIAs assert that the cost of RIA development and O & M is typically lower than that of HTML-based alternatives due to increased developer productivity and standardized, backwards compatible nature of the application platform runtime environments.

Proponents argue that it has increased efficiency, improved overall standards, and led to a better understanding of the relationship between costs and quality.

Proponents of HFI believe that high intensity fires in the Western United States have increased in intensity and size in recent years.

Proponents of offsets claim that third-party certified carbon offsets are leading to increased investment in renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane biodigesters and reforestation and avoided deforestation projects, and claim that these alleged effects are the intended goal of carbon offsets.

Proponents argued that the bill was based on the 1996 EU Database Directive, and was designed to encourage database creators by ensuring their revenue advantage.

Proponents prefer " America the Beautiful " for various reasons, saying it is easier to sing, more melodic, and more adaptable to new orchestrations while still remaining as easily recognizable as " The Star-Spangled Banner.

Proponents of Universal Reconciliation point out that this has significant implications for the problem of hell.

Proponents of the adversarial system often argue that the system is more fair and less prone to abuse than the inquisitional approach, because it allows less room for the state to be biased against the defendant.

Proponents of this position believe that the presence of believers during the tribulation is necessary for a final evangelistic effort during a time when external conditions will combine with the Gospel message to bring great numbers of converts into the Church in time for the beginning of the Millennium.

Proponents argue that the inter-rater reliability of DSM diagnoses ( via a specialized Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV ( SCID ) rather than usual psychiatric assessment ) is reasonable, and that there is good evidence of distinct patterns of mental, behavioral or neurological dysfunction to which the DSM disorders correspond well.

Proponents of the use of German bow claim that the German bow is easier to use for heavy strokes that require a lot of power.

Proponents include Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, an Irish philosopher who advanced a theory he called immaterialism, later referred to as " subjective idealism ", contending that individuals can only know sensations and ideas of objects directly, not abstractions such as " matter ", and that ideas also depend upon being perceived for their very existence-esse est percipi ; " to be is to be perceived ".

Proponents are known for opposing the existence of states or government and refusing to participate in coercive state institutions.

Proponents of a companionship with Jesus argue that it would have been unthinkable for an unmarried, adult male Jew to travel about teaching as a rabbi.

Proponents view OBE as a valuable replacement of the traditional model of relative ranking by ability and getting credit for merely sitting through class.

Proponents of parapsychology have seen it as an " embryo science ", a " frontier science of the mind ", and a " frontier discipline for advancing knowledge ".

Proponents of cultural transmission have looked for links between Iron Age Celtic, Greek and Vedic philosophy and religion, some even suggesting that belief in reincarnation was present in Proto-Indo-European religion.

Proponents of state socialism advocate the nationalisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange as a strategy for implementing socialism.

Proponents of funding for parochial schools argue that such an exclusion would violate the free exercise clause.

Proponents counter that it may have been possible for life to survive in these ways:

Proponents of this viewpoint expect that the frequency and severity of security compromises will be less severe for open than for proprietary or secret software.

Proponents of Skylab's reuse also said repairing and upgrading Skylab would provide information on the results of long-duration exposure to space for future stations.

Proponents for popular election noted that ten states already had non-binding primaries for Senate candidates, in which the candidates would be voted on by the public, effectively serving as advisory referenda instructing state legislatures how to vote ; reformers campaigned for more states to introduce a similar method.

Proponents of the iatrogenic position suggest a small number of clinicians diagnosing a disproportionate number of cases would provide evidence for their position though it has also been claimed that higher rates of diagnosis in specific countries like the United States, may be due to greater awareness of DID.

Proponents of the distinction, however, state that deprogramming entails coercion and confinement.

Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, Proponents of anarchism, known as " anarchists ", advocate stateless societies based on non-hierarchical voluntary associations.

Proponents of the view that differences in IQ test scores between blacks and whites are ( primarily or largely ) genetically determined state that criticism of these views is based on political correctness.

Proponents of this interpretation state that this makes the Schrödinger's Cat paradox a trivial non-issue.

Proponents believe that cooperatives, credit unions, and other forms of worker ownership would become viable without being subject to the state.

Proponents of socialist-directed market economies distinguish themselves from market socialists, and state that market socialists believe that only through utilizing the market mechanism can socialism be achieved, and that planned economies are ineffective or undesirable.

Proponents of MAD as part of U. S. and USSR strategic doctrine believed that nuclear war could best be prevented if neither side could expect to survive a full-scale nuclear exchange as a functioning state.

Proponents of the singularity typically state that an " intelligence explosion ", where superintelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds, might occur very quickly and might not stop until the agent's cognitive abilities greatly surpass that of any human.

Proponents of this approach point to the rise of neo-conservative economic policies in Canada and the associated reduction in welfare state expenditure ( particularly in the provinces ) from the 1980s onwards as the cause of degradation in the system.

Proponents of gender-neutral language argue that the use of gender-specific language often implies male superiority or reflects an unequal state of society.

Proponents of the measure contend that only dangerous cults have been listed as such, and state secularism ensures religious freedom in France.

Proponents of state socialism claim the state, through practical considerations of governing, must play at least a temporary part in building socialism.

Proponents of a Jewish state and Jewish army agitated, but many leaders were so fearful of an antisemitic backlash inside the U. S. that they demanded that all Jews keep a low public profile.

Proponents believe an independent board will give the university more autonomy, and free it from relying on inadequate state funding.

Proponents state that through MVAH, the Maharishi revived the ancient Vedic system of health care.

Proponents contest that a portion of state funding for highways comes from the gasoline tax, a user fee analogous to the fare MARTA riders pay.

Proponents state that treatments are based on patients ' individual biochemistries.

Proponents state that this right acknowledges the status quo, and that denial of the right is meaningless unless one is able and willing to use military force to deny it.

Proponents of a binational solution to the conflict advocate either a single state in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, or a single state in Israel and the West Bank, with citizenship and equal rights in the combined entity for all inhabitants of all three territories, without regard to ethnicity or religion.