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 the extraterrestrial hypothesis suggest that these unexplained reports are of alien spacecraft, though various other hypotheses have been proposed.

Proponents of various approaches generally agree that a combined approach is important.

Proponents of Afrocentrism support the claim that the contributions of various African people have been downplayed or discredited as part of the legacy of colonialism and slavery's pathology of " writing Africans out of history " Critics of Afrocentricity accuse it of pseudo-history, reactionary and therapy.

Proponents of naked credit default swaps say that short selling in various forms, whether credit default swaps, options or futures, has the beneficial effect of increasing liquidity in the marketplace.

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 of competing paradigms have different ideas about the importance of solving various scientific problems, and about the standards that a solution should satisfy.

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 claim that this approach results in a more realistic action than possible with air or magnetic type machines.

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 both kinds of democracy argue that their particular approach is the best one for the citizens of their respective countries.

Proponents of exploratory engineering contend that it is an appropriate initial approach to such problems.

Proponents of this nutritional approach have published books

Proponents of the Flexible Specialization approach ( also known as the neo-Smithian approach ) to post-Fordism believe that fundamental changes in the international economy, especially in the early 1970s, forced firms to switch from mass production to a new tactic known as Flexible Specialization.

Proponents of this approach are e. g. Carol Giambalvo, Janja Lalich, David Clark

Proponents of reform argue that a more likely result of following the current Clean Air Act is the continued ' muddling along ' approach to environmental legislation, with most important decisions made in courts on a case by case basis after many years of litigation.

Proponents of each approach have sought to improve them as well as apply them for small, medium and large gains.

Proponents of New Archaeology advocated using processual methods to test hypotheses about the interaction between culture and biology, or a biocultural approach.

This abstract approach to assimilation derives, ultimately, from the conviction-as naive as it is chauvinistic-that America is an exceptional country, one not rooted in blood, soil, and kinship, but a nation “ dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal .” Proponents of this are quick to label the more old-fashioned view, that the nation is a metaphorical extended family, as bigotry, but no amount of repetition or rhetorical extravagance can disguise the dangerous logic that is at work.

Proponents of that interpretation acknowledge that, " The natural response to this approach is to say that ... any equality-based reading of the clause is redundant because the Equal Protection Clause provides the necessary ground and more.

Proponents of this approach strongly affirm the classical liberal ideas of non-aggression and free markets, while maintaining that, taken to their logical conclusions, these ideas support strongly anti-corporatist, anti-hierarchical, pro-labor positions in economics, anti-imperialism in foreign policy, and thoroughly liberal or radical views regarding such cultural issues as gender, sexuality, and race.

Proponents include Ralph-Johan Back, who originated the approach in his 1978 PhD thesis On the Correctness of Refinement Steps in Program Development, and Carroll Morgan, especially with his book Programming from Specifications ( Prentice Hall, 2nd edition, 1994, ISBN 0-13-123274-6 ).

Proponents include Amit Goswami, P. R.

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 include Brand Blanshard.

Proponents include Thomas Hill Green, Josiah Royce, Benedetto Croce and Charles Sanders Peirce.

Proponents of early free-market socialism include the Ricardian socialist economists, the classical liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill, and the anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

Proponents of process philosophy include Charles Hartshorne and Nicholas Rescher, and his ideas have been taken up by French philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze.

Proponents of this view include Francis of Assisi, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and in later life Leo Tolstoy.

Proponents of the AAH suggest that bipedalism is disadvantageous when comparing humans to medium sized, terrestrial quadrupeds, but the fossil record shows that the evolution of humans from ape ancestors didn't include a period of quadrupedal locomotion.

Proponents of republicanism in the Liberal Party include: its former leader and former leader of the Australian Republican Movement Malcolm Turnbull, Julie Bishop, Joe Hockey and Peter Costello.

Proponents of Bilderberg conspiracy theories in the United States include individuals and groups such as the John Birch Society, political activist Phyllis Schlafly, writer Jim Tucker, political activist Lyndon LaRouche, radio host Alex Jones, and politician Jesse Ventura, who made the Bilderberg group a topic of a 2009 episode of his TruTV series Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura.

Proponents claim that outcomes of the consensus process include:

Proponents of the PFI include the World Bank, IMF and ( in the UK ) the CBI.

Proponents in contemporary political philosophy of such a view include Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire and Bernard Williams.

Proponents of the view include Charles Spurgeon and George Eldon Ladd.

Proponents of Regulation theory include Michel Aglietta, Robert Boyer, Bob Jessop, and Alain Lipietz.

Proponents of this school include John Hannigan, particularly in Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective ( 1995 ).

Proponents of this view include Stephen Oppenheimer in his book Out of Eden, and John Skoyles and Dorion Sagan in their book Up from Dragons: The evolution of human intelligence.

Proponents of the perceived, distinctive Pauline form of Christianity, include Marcion of Sinope, the 2nd century theologian and excommunicated heresiarch, who asserted that Paul was the only apostle who had rightly understood the new message of salvation as delivered by Jesus Christ.

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.

Proponents of this effort, which include the local Republican Party, tried and again failed to put the recall on the February 2008 ballot.

Proponents include the 93rd Street Beautification Association and Carnegie Hill Neighbors, an organization which, seeking to preserve the village-like environment, spurred the creation of the historic district and actively monitors its well being.

Proponents include Robert Brandom, Gilbert Harman, Paul Horwich, and Ned Block.

Proponents of evidence-based medicine include the use of any treatment that has not been shown to provide a measurable benefit.

Proponents of the Progressive creation theory include astronomer-turned-apologist Hugh Ross, whose organization, Reasons To Believe, accepts the scientifically determined age of the Earth but seeks to disprove Darwinian evolution.