Sentences with phrase «early proponent»

The ethanol market did not take off as early proponents hoped due to issues of cost, portability, and energy density (miles per gallon).

Many large organizations have embraced such regulations, including the NFL (where «The Rooney Rule,» is named for early proponent and Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney), Pinterest, Facebook and RBC, the latter of which has a goal of granting half of new executive appointments to women and one in five to members of visible minority groups.

His suggestion here reminds me of yet another Harvard scientist: the botanist Asa Gray, the first American Darwinian and also an important early proponent of what is often called «theistic evolution.»

For example, nothing about human rights is antithetical to the gospel, as most of these rights» early proponents happily insisted.

JL: Perhaps more than any popular portfolio manager on Seeking Alpha, you have been a consistent early proponent of ETFs offering alternatives to standard market cap weighted funds.

The Tervuren was named after the village of Tervuren, where one of the breed's earliest proponents lived.

It was inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism, while many of its notable early proponents were among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists.

After a decade as a newspaper reporter and editor in Kingston and Poughkeepsie, Pat began working as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy in 1998, charged with supporting a group of businesses that were early proponents of solar, wind and energy efficiency in K - 12 schools and universities.

(Employers without a pension plan are not, as early proponents had hoped, required to offer PRPPs, however.)

«Jack Stack [president of Springfield Remanufacturing Corp. and an early proponent of open - book management] has this great motto of sharing his kingdom with everyone,» says Grossman.

For that reason, we have been an early proponent and adopter of cryptocurrencies,» he said in a statement.

Circle eventually pulled the plug on the Bitcoin capability within the Circle Pay app, earning the ire of early proponents.

She was, for example, an early proponent of work - life balance.

Upon his election as United Conservative Party leader, Jason Kenney expressed his thanks to Alberta Can't Wait for being an early proponent of conservative unity in the province and echoed the feelings of many Albertans stating that the province was «one step closer to renewing the Alberta advantage.»

The multi-talented entrepreneur, business cycle theorist and investor Roger Babson, an early proponent of technical analysis, had held a speech at the Annual National Business Conference in which he boldly predicted that «Sooner or later a crash is coming, and it will be terrific.»

Adams was, arguably, one of the earliest proponents of American independence, leading protests and separatist movements more than a decade before the Declaration of Independence.

Especially was it surprising to find Michael Novak in this role, for in a previous incarnation he was one of the early proponents of a theology for radical politics.

It is, in this way, post-modern in a sense that earlier proponents of the primacy of events could not have been.

He was also hailed as an early proponent of the «future» orientation in theology, which offered fresh insights into the understanding of God.

He was also hailed as an early proponent of...

For example, writing of Rosmini's book The Five Wounds of the Church, in which Rosmini describes the obstacles an exclusively Latin liturgy can pose for effective evangelisation, Fr Hill not only proposes his hero as an early proponent of the vernacular Mass, but goes on to add (in a rather sly footnote) that Rosmini would also have been opposed to «the deliberate use of archaic language» of which «the new vernacular translations of the Mass are an example».

John Wimber, founder of the Vineyard churches, was an early proponent of this strain of the charismatic movement.

An early proponent of the once - banned slam dunk, he helped usher in a new era of basketball symbolized by those great Houston teams roughly 30 years ago.

Giambra is a former Buffalo city comptroller and was an early proponent of government consolidation.

Mr. Cuomo, continuing his transformation from Albany insider to middle - class warrior, announced the plan in January alongside Senator Bernie Sanders, an early proponent.

«Mrs. Clark's goal to adequately finance New York City's under - funded school system made her an early proponent of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) v. State of New York lawsuit,» the bio states.

With the budget deadline looming, Alex Matthiessen, the founder and director of Move NY, an early proponent of congestion pricing that has expanded into the Fix NYC Transit coalition, said supporters were pushing hard to ensure that infrastructure funding for a congestion zone be included in the budget.

(Cuomo was an early proponent of trying to use the internet in his service at HUD.

Dozens of influential business, transportation and community groups signed on to the Fix NYC plan, expanding upon a grass - roots effort by Move NY, an early proponent of congestion pricing.

Haldane has been studying the global financial system with Robert May of the University of Oxford, an early proponent of chaos theory.

Charles Davenport, an early proponent of quantitative evolutionary biology and leader of the US eugenics movement, is also omitted.

Cheaper than dust,» as one of its early proponents described it.

Rest in peace: Talking chimp, famed biochemists, A-bomb pilot The science deaths came fast and furious starting last week when Leslie Orgel, 80, an early proponent of the «RNA world» hypothesis to explain the birth of life on Earth, succumbed to pancreatic cancer.

As envisioned by its earliest proponents, gene therapy introduces a healthy copy of a gene to compensate for a defective one in the patient, but that approach has a major drawback.

«John Ultmann was an early proponent of the multi-disciplinary approach to treatment of lymphoma, which is associated with a tremendous improvement in the curability of the disease,» said Samuel Hellman, MD, the A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor in the department of radiation and cellular oncology and former dean of the biological sciences at the University.

One of the earliest proponents of high protein diets was the distinguished German physiologist Dr. Carl Voit (1831 - 1908).1, 2 After studying laborers who consumed approximately 3100 Calories daily, he concluded that protein intake for people should be 118 grams (g) per day — this value became known as the «Voit standard.»

She masterminded the company's retail roll - out into new markets and was an early proponent of the Internet, investing heavily in the company's e-commerce capabilities, digital marketing presence and in - store technology.

AMSTERDAM, March 5 (Reuters)-- Two Amsterdam local politicians have uploaded their profiles to online gay dating site Grindr to try and pick up... was an early proponent of liberal policies in the Netherlands, including gay marriage,...

An early proponent of online dating and social networking, Spira is a source of expert advice, authoritative information, and inspiration to millions of singles searching for meaningful love - connections through online dating sites and social networking.

But if you asked him for the accomplishment that has made him most proud, he'd tell you it was becoming an early proponent of a hiring system he launched in 2016 called Half.

This is a film about cinema, specifically an early proponent, magician - turned - filmmaker, Georges Méliès, who made films such as A Trip to the Moon / Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902), and The Impossible Voyage / Voyage à travers l'impossible (1904).