Sentence examples for early defenders from inspiring English sources

Among the movement's early defenders was Bill de Blasio, the city's public advocate — and now the Democratic mayoral candidate.

Among his most passionate early defenders, and his first posthumous editor, was the great Marie le Jars de Gournay, whom he called his fille d'alliance (something between a goddaughter and a female apprentice).

The early defenders of the industry did not understand the ways that the power of the new communications tool would help them market their goods to a broader audience.

Olson's book should help correct that, for these men were early defenders of freedom in the face of Nazism and English appeasement, often taking stands that put them at odds with men and women they had known all their lives and turned them into political targets.

For familiar "empiricist" reasons, Hempel and many other early defenders of the DN model regarded these concepts as not well understood, at least prior to analysis.

Another motivation was the interest of Hempel and other early defenders of the DN model in forms of explanation such as "functional explanation" (thought to be employed in such special sciences as biology and anthropology) that were not obviously causal.

She was an early defender of Trump's willingness to say things "no one else is saying".

He entertained us with juggling, swam almost a mile a day in the Pacific Ocean, walked miles to and from work whenever he could and was an early defender of the environment and loved his garden.

An early defender of the Amazon rain forest, Burle Marx revolutionized Brazilian gardens not only with his use of tropical flora, but with his modernist designs that played with abstract art.

Even though the Ameghinean hypothesis fell into discredit, he was an early defender and promoter of the (by this epoch, controversial) Darwinian ideas among the community of Latin American paleontologists, anthropologists, and archeologists.

He is instead an early defender, avant la lettre, of the idea of a meritocracy whose members are drawn from all classes and walks of life.