In "The Conquest of Poverty," from 1899, a New Thought proponent named Helen Wilmans used language that any regular viewer of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" would recognize: "If search be short or long, I say, discover self!
And dropping $19,000 on a solar system is no less rational than spending as much on a swimming pool or a new kitchen, proponents point out.
The need for a new law, proponents argue, became evident when the Los Angeles County assessor handed a tax bill to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. in 2013.
It is hardly a coincidence that many new proponents of density particularly those belonging to the New Urbanism movement tend to focus on a comprehensive idea of urban design by which they imagine they can envision a city in all its facets and hence fine-tune it for the best outcomes.
With a Democratic-controlled House and new proponents of gun safety in Congress, Brady Campaign co-president Avery Gardiner expressed optimism that lawmakers would finally take action on key gun safety priorities.
The boycott-divest-sanction movement has gained many new proponents, because of a sense that time is right to pressure Israel to finally negotiate peace with the Palestinians.
Which brings us full circle: the new proponents of nuclear power say that since nuclear power is arguably preferable to coal, maybe we should subsidize the building of new plants.
Although the publicity resulted in a short-term setback for Air Corps ambitions, within a year both U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and future Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall became new proponents of long range air power.
From a new hermeneutical perspective, proponents of Xuanxue thus endeavor to reverse an "outward" interpretive course to return to the "roots"; that is to say, to recapture the perceived core teachings of the sages.
But even if kids (and by kids I mean the 30 and under crowd, a completely arbitrary cutoff point) are going out and buying these games left and right, does that mean they're experiencing music in a new way, as proponents of the idea that Guitar Hero will save the music business would have you believe, or are they just killing time?
