leading proponent

collocation in English

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leading
adjective[before noun]
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/ˈliː.dɪŋ/us
/ˈliː.dɪŋ/
very important or ...
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proponent
noun[C]
uk
/prəˈpəʊ.nənt/us
/prəˈpoʊ.nənt/
a person who speaks publicly in support of a particular idea or plan ...
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(Definition ofleadingandproponentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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She is aleadingproponentof cultural approaches to learning, development and psychotherapy.
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Vaupel has been aleadingproponentof the idea of the plasticity of longevity.
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Wilder was aleadingproponentof the mayor-at-large proposal.
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He was aleadingproponentof research into disease transportability and transmission as related to importation of disease and outbreak of epidemics.
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He is aleadingproponentof this new field, and co-author of the first text book in it.
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Peacocke is now often seen as aleadingproponentof this notion of non-conceptual intentional content.
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Diephuis was aleadingproponentof legism and of the primacy of legislation.
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Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, he was aleadingproponentof the credo, art for art's sake.
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It has since grown to become aleadingproponentof neutral independent network interconnection and provider of route-servers at major exchange points worldwide.
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He quickly established himself as the country'sleadingproponentof total prohibition on alcohol.
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He had been aleadingproponentof such an opening to the centre-left for years.
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He was to all intents and purposes a founder the agricultural economy, and was aleadingproponentof the reclamation work accomplished during the twenties.
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He became known as aleadingproponentof states rights.
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He is aleadingproponentof legal positivism.
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He is aleadingproponentof mathematical statistics and graphical models.
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He was aleadingproponentof the broad idea of the behavioral sciences, a field he saw as including areas such as public opinion.
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Straus is credited as theleadingproponentof the pasteurization movement that eliminated the hundreds of thousands of deaths per year then due to disease-bearing milk.
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Klesch is aleadingproponentof value investing, and speaks regularly to professional audiences around the world as an expert in the field of business restructuring, recovery and growth.
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He was aleadingproponentof orthogenesis, the idea that evolution occurs in a directional, goal driven way, argued in terms that today go under the banner of convergent evolution.
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Leading proponents of the anti-folk scene, the band has been on hiatus since 2004.
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