Anthony, too, hopes that the "model of community participation" that Inman established will remain intact, even if its most forceful proponent is gone.

Though a handful of far smaller companies also offer doctors investments, Columbia has used them from its inception and is their most forceful proponent.

One of the most forceful recent proponents of this view, the historian Russell F. Weigley, is barely mentioned in this book.

There is no more forceful proponent of this argument than Mr. Wilker.

He was a forceful proponent of free trade both in politics and business, opposing tariffs or other restrictions.

Goddard became a forceful proponent of Boas's views in anthropology and linguistics, in particular of Boas's conservative view of the validity of dep linguistic relationships.

On the other side, the most forceful proponent of the bubble analogy is Shiller, who made his name by predicting that the stock market would crack.

Officials at the federal Education Department, which has been a forceful proponent of vouchers and charter schools, said they did not see this study as decisive.

They say Gallaudet should play a strong advocacy role, lobbying to keep such schools open and remaining a forceful proponent of American Sign Language.

Dr. Daniel Dennett, a philosopher at Tufts University, is a forceful proponent of the idea that consciousness is no big deal.