A leading proponent of the Great Game, Disraeli introduced the Royal Titles Act 1876, which created Queen Victoria Empress of India, putting her at the same level as the Russian Tsar.

Indeed, Robert Spitzer, a past editor and leading proponent of scientific impartiality in the DSM, conceded that a significant reason that certain diagnoses ( the paraphilias ) would not, in his opinion, be removed from the DSM is because " it would be a public relations disaster for psychiatry ".

From the 1960s through the end of the century Gary Karr was the leading proponent of the double bass as a solo instrument and was active in commissioning or having hundreds of new works and concerti written especially for him.

In particular, Hippolyte Bernheim became known as the leading proponent of the " suggestion theory " of hypnosis, at one point going so far as to declare that there is no hypnotic state, only heightened suggestibility.

Couturat, who was the leading proponent of Ido, was killed in an automobile accident in 1914.

During the Reagan presidency, when Kemp was able to effect tax cutting, a leading United States Senate tax-cutting proponent was Democrat Bill Bradley, a former basketball star.

Militarily, St-Laurent was a leading proponent of the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) in 1949, serving as an architect and signatory of the treaty document.

Even the leading Snowball proponent Hoffman agrees that the ~ million year long Gaskiers glaciation did not lead to global glaciation, although it was probably as intense as the late Ordovician glaciation.

He is the leading proponent of the multiregional evolution hypothesis that attempts to explain the evolution of Homo sapiens as a consequence of evolutionary processes within a single species.

In 1986 he was a leading proponent of European monetary union and a European central bank.

Phillip E. Johnson, retired UC Berkeley law professor, leading proponent of intelligent design, founding advisor of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and " father " of the intelligent design movement, assisted Santorum in phrasing the amendment.

As such, he was a notable proponent of an unlimited free market economy and took a leading part in drafting a new party programme.

Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo, " art for art's sake ".

He was a Keynesian, an institutionalist, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism.

An early proponent of this idea was John Quincy Adams, a leading figure in U. S. expansion between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Polk administration in the 1840s.

As the leading proponent campaigning for Catholic Emancipation, he had been in London for the passage in its final legislative stages of the Emancipation Bill from the British House of Commons through to the House of Lords and thence into law.

He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis.

Traetta had been advised by Count Francesco Algarotti, a leading proponent of reform according to French models ; Algarotti was a major influence on the most important " reformist " composer, Christoph Willibald von Gluck.

An early admirer of Jean Baudrillard ’ s Consumer Society ( 1970 ), Ritzer is a leading proponent of the study of consumption.

A strong German nationalist, Rathenau was a leading proponent of a policy of assimilation for German Jews: he argued that Jews should oppose both Zionism and socialism and fully integrate themselves into mainstream German society.

The leading school was that of the formalist approach, of which David Hilbert was the foremost proponent, culminating in what is known as Hilbert's program, which thought to ground mathematics on a small basis of a logical system proved sound by metamathematical finitistic means.

The Voltaire Network, which has somehow changed position since the September 11 attacks and whose director, Thierry Meyssan, became a leading proponent of 9 / 11 conspiracy theory, explained that although the Norwegian version of Le Monde diplomatique had allowed it to translate and publish this article on its website, the mother-house, in France, categorically refused it this right, thus displaying an open debate between various national editions.

He was a leading proponent of pacifism in Japan before and after World War II, and was also the last Japanese prime minister who was a member of the kazoku.

The leading scientific proponent of catastrophism in the early nineteenth century was the French anatomist and paleontologist Georges Cuvier.

Reading Being and Time initiated Sartre's own enquiry leading to the publication in 1943 of Being and Nothingness whose subtitle is ' A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology '.

In doing so, she draws on Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology, leading some critics to categorize her work as soft science fiction.

Goldsmiths ' Sociology Department has been extremely important in the recent development of the discipline in the UK and internationally, with leading sociologists such as Paul Gilroy, Bev Skeggs, Nikolas Rose, Celia Lury, Les Back, Kate Nash and Jeffrey Alexander, working in the department in recent years.

By the time he graduated Mills had already been published in the two leading sociology journals in the U. S., the American Sociological Review and the American Journal of Sociology.

This view was shaped by the leading Western worldview of the time and the desire for Sociology to establish itself as an independent discipline against the then popular racist-biological environmental determinism where environment was all.

A leading writer on Criminology and Sociology, Cohen is credited with coining the term moral panic in his 1972 study ( Folk Devils and Moral Panics ) of the popular UK media and social reaction to the Mods and Rockers phenomenon of the 1960s.

DHSS offers three undergraduate programmes leading to the BSc ( Honours ) degree in Anthropology / Sociology, Humanities and Political Science, as well as a combined programme in Politics and Economics in conjunction with the Economics Department.

The faculty offers Bachelor programmes in Economics, Sociology, Social Work, Political Science, Psychology, Commerce and Computer Applications, and programmes leading to a masters degree.

In the second edition of his Nuovo manuale di sociologia della religione ( New Manual of Sociology of Religion ) Roberto Cipriani, former president of AIS ( Associazione Italiana di Sociologia ) and one of Italy's leading sociologists, calls Introvigne " one of the Italian sociologists of religion most well-known abroad, and among the world's leading scholars of new religious movements ".

Wirth studied in the United States and became a leading figure in Chicago School Sociology.

The YSU Faculty of Law, as an educational and scientific institution, effectively co-operates both with local and foreign scientific centers and institutions, in particular, with the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of the RA, the Center of Constitutional Law, the Scientific and Educational Center of the General Prosecutor's Office of RA, a number of leading law schools of Russian Federation, Europe and the USA, as well as with some authoritative international organizations, including UN Representative Office in RA, United States Agency of International Development ( USAID ), American Bar Association ( ABA ), Open Society Institute ( OSI ), etc.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.

One of the leading members of the Amen corner was cook ; ;

The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories.

`` Connections '' was all he would say with that smooth hurt smile when I put leading questions.

I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.

They were stressed in the speeches of Si Mubarak Bekkai when the first Council of Ministers was formed and again when the Istiqlal took a leading role in the second Council.

Under the 1939 Code this item was permitted to survive a tax-free reorganization in the Stanton Brewery case, but only over the dissent of Judge Learned Hand, who wrote the majority opinion in the Sansome case, a leading case requiring carryover of earnings and profits in a non-taxable reorganization.

There were three -- one leading to a bathroom, one to the hall, and one to the room next door which was immovable -- locked or bolted on the other side.

The campaign leading to the election was not so quiet, however.

The son of a wealthy Evanston executive was fined $100 yesterday and forbidden to drive for 60 days for leading an Evanston policeman on a high speed chase over icy Evanston and Wilmette streets Jan. 20.

He could read on the nearby scoreboard that Palmer, by then playing the 15th hole, was leading him by a stroke.

But as the tour reached Pensacola a month ago, Player was leading Palmer in official winnings by a few hundred dollars, and the rest of the field was somewhere off in nowhere.

On that final Sunday at Pensacola neither Palmer nor Player was leading the tournament and, as it turned out, neither won it.

Long before 1815 the Christian conscience was leading some to declare slavery wrong and to act accordingly.

When he was made a vice president only a year after the new sales job, a leading business magazine ran his photograph with a brief biography in a series on national business leaders of the future.

At about 2: 30 p. m., while leading one of those charges against a Union camp near the " Peach Orchard ", he was wounded, taking a bullet behind his right knee.

Korzybzki was well received in numerous disciplinary realms, as evidenced by the positive reactions from leading persons in the sciences and humanities in the 1940s and 1950s.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

: " By the step leading up into the sleeping-car stood a young Belgian lieutenant, resplendent in uniform, conversing with a small man ( Hercule Poirot ) muffled up to the ears of whom nothing was visible but a pink-tipped nose and the two points of an upward-curled moustache.

It was Doubleday's finest performance during the war, five hours leading 9, 500 men against ten Confederate brigades that numbered more than 16, 000.

Around 250 BC, Archimedes was commissioned by the king to find a way to check the purity of the gold in a crown, leading to the famous bath-house shouting of " Eureka!