(1) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(2) Screening has many detractors, especially in the treatment camp.
(3) Behaving like the oldest kid on the block is just one of the things that Larry Clark's detractors hold against him.
(4) Tony Abbott has heard the message on the need to change his leadership style, a senior minister has said, warning the prime minister’s detractors against moving an “amateur-hour” spill motion next week.
(5) Barack Obama and secretary of state John Kerry have warned detractors that they would be unable to reimpose a multinational trade embargo if congress rejects the plans .
(6) His many detractors said that Peres simply had no choice.
(7) Culture secretary Sajid Javid has said that ticket touts are “classic entrepreneurs” and their detractors are the “chattering middle classes and champagne socialists, who have no interest in helping the common working man earn a decent living by acting as a middleman”.
(8) Fortunately for his detractors, who bristle at his brash TV persona and penchant for bullying guests, Shimada conceded his TV career was at an end: "From tomorrow I will become just another regular person.
(9) The eminent historian Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard University and a senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, has jumped to Gove's defence, attacking the "pomposity" of the curriculum's detractors.
(10) After suggesting that the voting for Forbes had been fixed by "a small group of detractors" casting multiple votes, he continued: "Glenfiddich's choice of Michael Forbes, as Top Scot, will go down as one of the great jokes ever played on the Scottish people and is a terrible embarrassment to Scotland."
(11) He was protected by the media, his detractors complained, but protection was certainly not offered from the club.
(12) His detractors, many in his own party, say he will turn Britain’s main opposition party into a political pressure group at best , with no hope of regaining office.
(13) While there is good scientific evidence that meditating twice a day can reduce stress and lower blood pressure, the maharishi's detractors say that his claims that it can also cure cancer and prolong lifespans are unproven.
(14) The eccentric, gonzo-ish path that Vice has chosen to pursue instead has itself come in for sharp criticism from detractors among those he belittles as football-chasers.
(15) The company was employed in September 2015 by one of Trump’s Republican detractors to look into his dealings.
(16) The Pythons were silly and surreal, and any style of humour so quirkily individual that it spawns its own adjective will have its detractors.
(17) While Osborne claimed "access to higher education is a basic tenet of economic success in the global race", his detractors countered that the system would collapse under the weight of its own ambition.
(18) John Smith As the chief executive of BBC Worldwide, he is frequently accused of behaving too commercially by the BBC's detractors.
(19) Facing threats of boycotts and cancellations across a range of industries Jan Brewer, the governor of Arizona, vetoed a bill sponsored by fellow Republicans that detractors said would have facilitated discrimination against gays in the name of defending religious freedom.
(20) Where fans see a great artist drawn to extremes of ecstasy and anguish, detractors see an old-fashioned misogynist sporting a voguish arthouse cap.
Proponent
Definition:
(a.) Making proposals; proposing.
(n.) One who makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition.
(n.) The propounder of a thing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although it appears to come within the confines of privacy, assisted suicide constitutes a more radical change in the law than its proponents suggest.
(2) Both sides agree that antigenic diversity is advantageous although selectionists see benefits in individual mutations whereas the proponents of random genetic drift see the advantage in the parasite's capacity to tolerate diversity per se.
(3) It is said that the science around climate change is not as certain as its proponents allege.
(4) He is also a vocal proponent of the benefit cap , finding it disgusting that some families can claim more in benefits than the average person earns, even while he finds it intolerable that he can only claim in accommodation expenses £2,000 more than the cap .
(5) He is a “caricature machine politician” , Goldsmith has claimed, but also the proponent of “divisive and radical politics” .
(6) Hungary, now one of Europe’s keenest proponents of border protection, was less than a century ago part of a polyglot, multinational commonwealth, the Austro-Hungarian empire.
(7) George Osborne, the chancellor, whose Tatton constituency lies on the expected route, is a crucial proponent in unlocking the £33bn spend.
(8) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.
(9) Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was the major proponent of Greater Europe, a concept that also had European roots in Gaullism and other initiatives.
(10) Debate among proponents of these various proposals might be advanced if a common language were adopted with regard to certain key terms instead of the various meanings currently assigned to these terms.
(11) Psychologist Susan Blackmore is best known as the proponent of memes, but early in her career she was a parapsychologist.
(12) Proponents argue that freestanding emergency centers reduce costs by providing care in a more efficient manner and cause other health care providers such as hospital emergency rooms to reduce costs and improve service.
(13) Strong proponents exist for the combination chemoradiation, whereas others favor radical radiation therapy.
(14) Proponents of these schemes argue that it helps to rescue people from fuel poverty.
(15) But proponents argue a nuclear weapons ban will create a moral case – in the vein of the cluster and land mine conventions – for nuclear weapons states to disarm, and establish a new international norm prohibiting nuclear weapons’ development, possession, and use.
(16) The basic income has its proponents on the right as well as the left, with the former seeing it as a cut-price form of welfare.
(17) It was, I recall, an anarchic traffic jam of ex-squatters, ravers, and proponents of free love that chuntered slowly and messily through the byways and sometimes the highways of Thatcher’s Britain.
(18) According to some proponents and critics of research using animals, the greatest hope for improved conditions for laboratory animals is to be found in the system of self-regulation called for by recent legislation and the NIH's revised policy.
(19) Lord Mandelson, a former Labour minister and a keen proponent of electoral reform, said AV supporters had paid a "big price" for staging the national poll on the same day as the first elections since the general election.
(20) He said the shift to the neutral stance would allow nurses to talk to patients about it if they were questioned, but added: "That must not be confused with us being proponents of assisted suicide."