With the admission, Mr. Islam may have been trying to burnish his credentials as a promoter of change in the long-isolated nation.
Variously a soaring orator, a sober policy wonk, an urgent promoter of change and a steady leader, he displayed a gift for finding consensus that let him draw support from people who might disagree with each other.
The role of mathematics as a promoter of change was never clear to me as an undergraduate and graduate student.
The promoters of change did not recognize the authority of the Council of Regency, and argued that the colonies in America were not consulted in its formation.
In many countries, a particular idea or tool became a focal point for reform activities and was used to build alliances and to develop the confidence and skills of the promoters of change.
The internet, one scholar was quoted as saying, is a "great promoter of social change".
He made his comments in an interview with The Australian, a conservative campaigning newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, and well known as a biased promoter of climate change denialist views and news articles.
"The irony here," said Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, who succeeded Rabbi Schindler as president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in 1996, "was that this most reformed of reformers, someone who was politically left and a promoter of dramatic change, was also someone who was seen as possessing Yiddishkeit.
And it hardly comes as a surprise that The Oklahoman, like Inhofe, is a major promoter of climate change denialism, acting as thinly veiled advocates for the fossil fuel lobby that dominates their state rather than a conduit of objective news for their readers.
The second major transcriptome change occurred just after flowering, and based on analysis of sterile mutant lines, we further revealed that the formation of strong sink, i.e., a developing grain, is not the major cause but is rather a promoter of this change.
Reduced mRNA expression of TGFBR1 in HKc/DR is not the result of mutations in or hypermethylation of the TGFBR1 promoter, or of changes in the protein levels of the transcription factors Sp1 or Sp3, which drive TGFBR1 expression [ 25].
