Sentence examples for first proponents from inspiring English sources

His studies of microscopic fossils led him to become one of the first proponents of a theory of evolution.

Touati was one of the first proponents of composite inlays and ceramics for veneers and crowns - the worryingly named zirconium oxide and aluminum oxide.

We asked for an explanation from Jacob Hacker, a professor of political science at Yale University and one of the first proponents of the idea.

"The program has pretty much been eviscerated, which is tragic," said Alderman Joe Moore of the 49th Ward, one of the City Council's first proponents of community policing in the 1990s.

"The genesis of this was, how do we exploit the international marketplace to its fullest," said Tim Brosnan, the executive vice president for business of Major League Baseball, who was one of the tournament's first proponents, in the early 1990's.

They would be "the most accountable public schools," their first proponents liked to boast, arguing that if the states learned to shut down failing charter schools, they would start doing the same thing for traditional schools that have been failing for decades.

I'm the first proponent of saying that A.F.S.P.A. should not be removed.

Ricky Gervais has been in Watford recently filming scenes for his forthcoming David Brent movie, so Klopp was not the first proponent of unconventional management techniques to be seen in Hertfordshire this week.

For Mario, Quintiglio was the first proponent of finding what is made by the land around you and feasting on it, of learning to taste its uniqueness, of recognizing that you are eating something that you can enjoy only now, here, during this day in a season, grown in this dirt.

He was prominent in many successful naval engagements in a century that saw Spain rise to the zenith of its power and was the first proponent and planner of the Spanish Armada, the fleet that was to attempt the invasion of England shortly after his death.

He is our leading defender of individual civil liberty, the greatest advocate in our history of religious and civic tolerance, and the first proponent of progressive educational methods, as well as the principal godfather of all those attitudes of common sense, reasonableness, kindness and politeness that later eras have so often thought of as essentially British.