Sentence examples for American proponent from inspiring English sources

Williams, the 17th-century Protestant theologian and founder of Rhode Island, is regarded as the original American proponent of liberty of conscience and the separation of church and state.

An early advocate of total separation of church and state, he also was the founder and architect of the University of Virginia and the most eloquent American proponent of individual freedom as the core meaning of the American Revolution.

The film's most appalling moment is an excerpt from a silent film, "The Black Stork," in which Dr. Harry Haiselden, an American proponent of euthanasia, imperiously tells nurses in a hospital which fragile newborn babies should be left to die.

He had begun working on a biography of a figure from the same period, the American evangelist Billy Sunday, but his curiosity about the longer history of religion in public life whisked him back in time and to Williams, long regarded as the original American proponent of liberty of conscience and the separation of church and state.

Though he is famous as the leading American proponent of the "auteur theory," Mr. Sarris has often pointed out that it is not a theory in the strong, scientific sense (like the theory of evolution or the theory of relativity), but rather a guiding intuition: that a film is a work of art and the principal artist is the director.

The foremost American proponent of the "no Communion" position is Cardinal Raymond Burke, the former archbishop of St . Louiswho was removed from a position in the Vatican by Pope Francis.

Despite the efforts of American proponents of these courts, proposals to establish them went nowhere.

But the director, Edward Robinson, who was both averse to modern art and contemptuous of its American proponents, spurned it.

But if they are, that means that most of what their American proponents believe about individualism, freedom, democracy and justice is wrong.

Prodded into action by vocal American proponents of the "outlawry of war" movement, he succeeded in broadening the agreement to include 62 nations, among them all the major powers.

The same could be said of American proponents of nuclear power, who still maintain that it is a clean, safe alternative to fossil fuels and paint opponents as anti-science Luddites.