main proponent

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main
adjective[before noun]
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/meɪn/us
/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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proponent
noun[C]
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/prəˈpəʊ.nənt/us
/prəˈpoʊ.nənt/
a person who speaks publicly in support of a particular idea or plan ...
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(Definition ofmainandproponentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Peaflorida, as itsmainproponent, was selected as its director for life.
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American stereotypes were not themainproponentof these attacks, but stereotypes become self-fulfilling and normative.
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Friedman was themainproponentof the monetarist school of economics.
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Quine falls squarely into the analytic philosophy tradition while also being themainproponentof the view that philosophy is not merely conceptual analysis.
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He is best known as initiator andmainproponentof the causal sets approach to quantum gravity.
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Thus, the expectations attached to the collaborator project by its main proponents were high.
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Pts was themainproponentof the formation of the chambers and the first two were also founded while his government cabinets were in office in 1924 and 1931.
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He was themainproponentof "gunaprasthana", the view that poetry needed qualities or virtues such as "shlesa" (punning), "prasada" (favour), "samata" (sameness), "madhurya" (beauty), "arthavyakti" (interpretation), and "ojah" (vigour).
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Has he also noticed that in our party the main proponents of railway privatisation tend to be those who delivered the poll tax to a grateful nation?
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Starkey is one of the main proponents of the wonky sound.
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They are considered the main proponents of the pagode genre which gave new life to samba in the 1980s.
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She was one of the main proponents of a law that granted women access to public offices; this went through in 1912.
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Since then, she has become an expert in the language and one of its main proponents.
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The names given to the main proponents reflect their characters.
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On city council he was one of the main proponents of an eight-hour work week and giving women the vote.
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