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Example sentences for: proponent

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Robert Heaney, professor of medicine at the Creighton University School of Medicine and a proponent of high dairy consumption, found in a study he co-authored that the "single most important determinate of the rate of bone gain" in young women was not the amount of calcium consumed but the ratio of calcium to protein.
"I'm a proponent of Bill's position," he replied, citing "Bill's health care plan, which I got a chance to read last night."
A profile of Peter Singer, a proponent of ethical treatment of animals, pinpoints the radical philosopher's inconsistencies.
The NYT and LAT off-leads and inside stories elsewhere report that the governor of Missouri, Mel Carnahan, a proponent of capital punishment, commuted the death sentence of a convicted murder to life in prison without parole after the pope, during his recent visit to St. Louis appealed directly to him to "show mercy" in the case.
That is something for which I have been the principal proponent for a long time."