Still, even the most ardent practitioners observe some limits.
Although its members are among the most ardent practitioners of the arcane sport of spearing sturgeons through holes in the ice from darkened shanties, they are also tireless volunteers committed to protecting the fish.
Though the more ardent practitioners of Falun Gong say they will keep their faith and not be cowed by the ban, the government's crackdown appears in these early days to be succeeding.
By selling improv theory to big business, Bonifer and his corporate consultant peers have found another option for ardent improv practitioners, and a very lucrative one at that.
The United States, beginning in the 1980s once again became the most ardent advocate and practitioner of the oldest form of capitalism, now a primitive relic of 18th century enlightenment.
Tanning has an ardent, if select, body of practitioners — some thirty million Americans, according to a recent estimate.
Passionate balletomane, gifted photographer, serious yoga practitioner, talented art scholar, and ardent feminist, she is much missed by family and friends.
As with many fundamentalist faiths, whose most zealous practitioners tend to be converts, the most ardent messianists were not born into Hasidism but are rather ba'al teshuvah, or returnees to the faith, like Rachel.
