For Mill, harm is uniquely powerful and to many subsequent proponents of 'the harm principle,' as we shall see, it has been considered especially powerful if not quite unique.
Most subsequent proponents did not stand by Bates' explanation of how the eye focuses mechanically, but nonetheless maintained that relieving a habitual "strain" was the key to improving sight.
I concur with your assessment of Judge Vaughn R. Walker's ruling against Proposition 8 ("In Defense of Marriage," editorial, Aug. 13), and of his subsequent commentary about whether its proponents had standing to appeal the decision.
Most of the leaders, though, accepted some theory of Bible interpretation that allowed an old Earth, such as "Gap Theory," the idea that millions of years of geological history occurred between God's action in first and second verse of Genesis and his subsequent actions in the second verse; proponents included mid-century creationist debater and apologist Harry Rimmer.
Argument will continue to rage over whether Platini's pet financial fair play project succeeded in stemming the flow of red ink across Europe (as its proponents claim) or whether its subsequent watering down was tacit acceptance that it was the wrong answer to the right question (as his critics claim).
However, given their aggressive resistance to the notion of suboptimality or nonfunction of biological structures,7 it appears that many modern design proponents disagree with Paley's subsequent assertions that neither imperfections nor ambiguous or even nonexistent functions refute the thesis of design for the origin of complex, (mostly) functional objects or organs.
Grant would become one of the drug's greatest proponents, encouraging his friends and subsequent wives to take it.
Grant would become one of the drug's greatest pre-illegality proponents, encouraging his friends and subsequent wives to take it.
"Proponents" implies "for"; make it "proponents of".
So a promising new "stress-transfer" theory, which sets out to explain how an earthquake in one place affects the probability of subsequent earthquakes nearby, is causing a bit of a rumble.One of the theory's leading proponents, Ross Stein of the US Geological Survey, likes to explain its underlying principles with a string of house bricks interconnected by elastic "bungee" cords.
Now, however, proponents of limiting CEO pay have scaled back their ambitions, pushing transparency and the subsequent public shame as key remedies.
