Sentences with phrase «outspoken proponents for»

Bill Clinton has become one of the most outspoken proponents for the clean energy economy in recent years, and for good reason.

Former prime minister Stephen Harper first suggested its creation following the assassination of Pakistani politician Shahbaz Bhatti, an outspoken proponent for his country's minorities.

Jessica Chastain is an outspoken proponent for pay equity in Hollywood, an indefatigable voice fighting sexism in story lines and bottom lines.

An Associated Press story on Monday showed Bennett, an outspoken proponent for school choice and for using student test scores to rate schools and teachers, had sent emails ordering changes to Indiana's A-F school grading system in 2012 when it appeared a favorite Indianapolis charter school would get a C.

Not exact matches

Dumbledore is certainly a proponent of white magic, but he is also an outspoken advocate of what the Gospel of Luke calls the «narrow door» — an archetypal image for the transforming power of major choices or recognitions (Luke 13:22 - 30).

On the other hand, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, an upstate Republican, has for years been an outspoken proponent of holding a convention and is the only legislative conference leader in support of a «yes» vote on this year's November ballot question as to whether New York should hold a convention to edit or rewrite its constitution.

Assemblyman Francisco Moya, a Democrat from Queens who has been the measure's most outspoken proponent, called for Cuomo to put it into his executive budget — where recalcitrant legislators might have an easier time assenting in the context of school aid increases or other items.

One of the earliest to recognize the breadth and depth of potential stem cell therapies, Weissman founded two companies (SyStemix and StemCells, Inc.) and has been an outspoken proponent of cloning for research purposes.

He is an outspoken proponent of the ketogenic diet for athletes.

In her late teens, Rosa marries barber Raymond Parks (Peter Francis James), a politically savvy and outspoken proponent of equal rights for all.

Another Board member is Dudley Williams, a senior executive at GE Asset Management who once worked for the Connecticut Department of Education and has been one of the most outspoken proponents of Malloy's Education Reform initiative.

And when former BTCC COO and outspoken SegWit proponent Samson Mow set up a bounty fund for the development of a UASF software implementation, it seemed like the proposal could become a reality.