Sentences with phrase «vocal proponent of»

Schmidt has been a vocal proponent of spreading Internet access.

Amplify, which sells schools an Android tablet packaged with content for K - 12 classrooms, has been a vocal proponent of Google's platform.

McLachlin has rightfully been a vocal proponent of access to justice issues.

«The news today, that some stations have measured concentrations above 400 ppm in the atmosphere, is further evidence that the world's political leaders — with a few honorable exceptions — are failing catastrophically to address the climate crisis,» former Vice President and a vocal proponent of climate action Al Gore wrote to the AP.

She was later promoted to Chief of Staff where she was a vocal proponent of industrialization, supporting investment in nuclear and hydroelectric power plants which have been contentious issues among environmentalists.

Jerry Taylor, a longtime veteran of the libertarian think tank Cato Institute who recently founded his own libertarian organization, the Niskanen Center, is a vocal proponent of this perspective.»

In 2006 a pattern emerged at NASA in which political appointees repeatedly acted in ways that the agency administrator concluded were inappropriate, including telling public affairs officers to issue fewer press releases on global warming in 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companies.

Levine has always been a vocal proponent of gameplay over non-interactive narrative, so how has he managed to keep the player directly in charge of the action with such a complex story to tell?

In addition to working as a game developer, Clint is also active in the game development community, and is a vocal proponent of games as an emerging medium and art form.

Almost from the start 40 years ago, I've educated the profession and the public on the healing power of pets, have been a visible and vocal proponent of The Bond, tried to be a good steward of the opportunities I've had to lecture to and on the behalf of the profession, and have focused daily on showcasing veterinarians everywhere as true pet health experts and hometown heroes.

The head of that committee, Sen. Charles Schumer, D - N.Y., has been a vocal proponent of a bailout of subprime borrowers.

The Department of Education under Arne Duncan and Michelle Rhee has been a vocal proponent of performance - based pay.

The harsh reality is that Hillary Clinton has actually been a vocal proponent of the corporate education reform agenda and she has a long way to go before it can be said that she is the best choice for students, parents, public schools or the teachers who make up the American Federation of Teachers.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

Mayor Villaraigosa is a vocal proponent of the parent trigger, along with a handful of other big - city mayors.

«Congressman Miller has been a pillar of support for children during his long career of public service and a vocal proponent of education reform,» said Wallace.

Upper Room Christian's pastor, Patrick Wooden, a vocal proponent of the school voucher legislation, was part of a group of pastors to come to Raleigh to support the bill's passage.

Upper Room Christian's pastor, Patrick Wooden, a vocal proponent of the school voucher legislation,

GLEF, a vocal proponent of social and emotional learning, has published hundreds of resources on emotional intelligence.

Mulligan has been a vocal proponent of equality in the film industry, which she has called «massively sexist».

Hillary has not always been a vocal proponent of the platforms she takes today.

Author Harriet Brown discusses how she overcame her longtime struggles with body shame, how her daughter's anorexia changed her relationship to food, why she became a vocal proponent of the Health At Every Size movement, and lots more.

As head of the Center for the Future of Surgery, Horgan is a vocal proponent of developing new surgeries and tools that are safer for patients, and training surgeons on how to perform the techniques.

A show - of - hands survey during an rTMS conference in Italy this year indicated that some are underreporting seizures, according to George, a vocal proponent of rTMS.

Most recently, he was a vocal proponent of an enhancement to a tax break for filmmakers who choose to edit and produce their works at Upstate studios.

Sources within Alcantara's camp insist she will be a vocal proponent of liberal issues and likely clash with Senate Republicans regardless of which conference she sits with, while noting it is likely that the IDC will caucus with Democrats as Republicans are facing the potential negative impact a Trump candidacy may have on turnout.

County Executive Joanie Mahoney, a vocal proponent of metro government, said she expects to face plenty of opposition to the Consensus plan when she convenes a shared services panel this year.

Schneiderman has been a vocal proponent of the #MeToo movement, bringing legal action in New York against film producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused of sexually assaulting women.

Senator David J. Valesky (D - Oneida) a vocal proponent of reform who first came to Albany in 2004, said «this measure is a positive step towards a State Government that has the full faith and confidence of the people it represents.»

Cuomo has not been a vocal proponent of paid family leave in the past, saying just last month that he believed the Legislature had no «appetite» to consider such a proposal this session.

Former Senate co-majority leader Jeff Klein has been a vocal proponent of systematic regulatory reform.

State Senator Tom Duane of Manhattan, the openly gay, hyper - vocal proponent of marriage equality, said yesterday that he's received private assurances from at least 32 of his colleagues that they will vote in favor of a marriage - equality bill introduced by Governor Paterson and recently passed by the State Assembly.

William C. Dudley, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a vocal proponent of improving the «culture» at big banks, was expected to announce his retirement as early as this week.

Jackson has been a vocal proponent of campaign reform, and has made it a focus of his current campaign.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigned on Monday night shortly after a New Yorker story broke in which four women accused the vocal proponent of the #MeToo movement of sexual assault.

But Mayor Bill de Blasio, who re-appointed Police Commissioner William Bratton (who'd first served under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani), a vocal proponent of broken windows policing, has insisted that the practice is sound and that it «helped us to address the problem of disorder that was plaguing us for decades.»

Gen. David Petraeus will form a new gun - control group for veterans with retired astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who became a vocal proponent of gun - control efforts after she was shot in the head in 2011.

The same country that in 2009 at the Arab Summit of Doha effectively sided with Syria and the axis of resistance against the moderate front led by Saudi Arabia, is now the most vocal proponent of military intervention against the Assad regime in Syria.

Corey Johnson, Council District 3, Manhattan (Incumbent)-- Johnson, who's running for his second term, distinguished himself as a vocal proponent of the Times Square pedestrian plaza when an uproar erupted over costumed characters and desnudas in 2015.

In the late 1 960s at Berkeley, for example, Charles Glock had become a vocal proponent of a substantive approach, arguing for the importance of distinguishing between the supernaturalism of religious worldviews and the naturalism of humanistic worldviews, while Robert Bellah was advancing a functional approach that defined religion more in terms of any system of symbolism capable of inducing a sense of personal meaning.4 Elsewhere, J, Milton Yinger, Peter Berger, and Thomas Luckmann were also engaged in defending various definitional approaches to religion.

The NCFA was founded in 2012 and has been a vocal proponent of all forms of crowdfunding since that time.

A vocal proponent of the fiduciary standard for all advisors, the Memphis, Tennessee - born, New Orleans - bred Evensky, a Cornell University grad, started out at Bache & Co. in 1967, moved to Drexel Burnham Lambert and, in 1985, went independent.

Mr. Wallace has been a vocal proponent of distributing content across many devices, from mobile to TV to even cars or refrigerators.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

Bogle, like Buffett, is a vocal proponent of low - cost index funds and investing for the long - term versus trying to

Bogle, like Buffett, is a vocal proponent of low - cost index funds and investing for the long - term versus trying to time the market.

«We're decoding biology,» says Bryan Johnson, partner in the OS Fund and a vocal proponent of the field.

In 2000, he said he supported a ban on assault weapons and a longer waiting period to purchase a gun, but during his campaign, he has been a vocal proponent of Second Amendment rights and has said he will end gun - free zones.

In it, President Trump wrote that he is «committed to working with Congress» to ensure mothers and fathers in the U.S. have access to paid - family leave — an issue that his eldest daughter and advisor, Ivanka Trump, has been a vocal proponent of.

The chief operating officer and Lean In author has emerged as a vocal proponent of a federal paid leave policy.