These sections show Sima Qian to have favoured the practical reformist statesmen who, in his own time, were formulating new policies for the increasingly centralized state, rather than the proponents of Confucian moral theories.
The approach reflects how law enforcement has become more careful about training confidential informants to become cautious advisers rather than forceful proponents in plots they are investigating since the Sept. 11 attacks, said Karen J. Greenberg the executive director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University.
Rather than fertilizers, proponents of the practice use cover crops, such as arugula, buckwheat, and rye, to enrich their fields.
Such innovations can be quickly established in practice, especially when promoted by commercial interests, so that within a short space of time, the onus is on the doubter to show that they do not work rather than on proponents to show that they do.
It is a traditional play, well told, an observer of how we behave rather than a proponent of how things should be.
The causes of this period of neglect are numerous, and include: computation and connectivity values, information availability, throughput and performance improvements, the diminished value of high-level UI variations, and the alignment of usability engineering as a marketing component rather than a proponent of efficient business operations.
But even patenting by native scientists increased slightly, rather than decreasing as proponents of crowding out would have predicted.
Initially proposed as a way to remedy the startling absence of monuments to "real," rather than fictional, women, proponents began with a list of some 50 women, all New Yorkers worthy of remembering.
Its biggest success -- the sea-based Aegis combat system -- can trace its longevity mainly to the fact that the Navy was in charge rather than missile-defense proponents.
Party officials use Confucius as a Father-Christmas-like symbol of avuncular Chineseness rather than as the proponent of a philosophical outlook.
