Sentence examples for french proponent from inspiring English sources

Maupertuis became a member of the Academy of Sciences in Paris in 1731 and soon became the foremost French proponent of the Newtonian theory of gravitation.

Some of them go to McDonald's and some of them join antiglobalization protests and travel in buses to support José Bové, the French proponent of local produce, against American imports of beef with hormones.

He also announced that he was instructing the authorities to investigate the promotion of extremism in French prisons — hardly a new problem, since nearly every French proponent of fundamentalist or jihadi thinking has been radicalized in French prisons, which have, experts estimate, a sizable majority of Muslim inmates.

The French proponents of realism were agreed in their rejection of the artificiality of both the Classicism and Romanticism of the academies and on the necessity for contemporaneity in an effective work of art.

What we, thanks to Andrew Sarris, call the "auteur theory" was called by its French proponents (the young critics at Cahiers du Cinéma who would become the New Wave filmmakers) the "politique des auteurs" — not a theory but a policy, or even a "politics".

It was not that directors were invisible and anonymous before the New Wave, or that the French proponents of the auteur theory were the first to declare that the director was the actual author of a film; it was more that many filmgoers themselves, after those watershed years of 1958 62, began to go to a film because of who had directed it, rather than because of who was in it or what it was about.

French proponents of the Three Unities thought that theatre should aim at, among other things, verisimilitude, but never overcame the problem that the fact that characters in French theatre speak in rhyming couplets might detract from that verisimilitude, which it clearly does.

When Margaret Thatcher inadvertently spawned the European rave scene, first by closing the textile industry and freeing up warehouse spaces and later by illegalizing party music "characterized by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats," French proponents of the scene adopted their own spin on the style, incorporating the disco-funk influences that appealed to them.

He was a proponent of French colonial policy in Indochina and was appointed governor general in Annam and Tonkin (1886).

The title of the loping, suspenseful Jacquard Causeway seemingly indicates French geneticist Albert Jacquard, a proponent of "degrowth": the idea of increasing happiness by working and consuming less.

A joint effort by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov resulted in an agreement whereby Syria would surrender its chemical weapons arsenal, but Hollande remained a strong proponent of French military action abroad.