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Topic: Proponent


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A video game proponent is a gamer who is opposed to criticism from outside the video game community, such as religious figures and politicians, and restrictions and scrutiny based on the criticisms.
Video game proponents sometimes help fellow gamers who are undergoing such restriction or scrutiny, if beyond the Entertainment Software Ratings Board.
Some video game proponents abstain from or deprecate religious organizations that impose restrictions on video games, such as Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists.
wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/video_game_proponent.html   (201 words)

  
 Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/proponent
A fervent proponent of the work ethic, Reuther at first resisted the demand for early retirement, as he had rejected shorter hours in the 1950s.
He was a forthright proponent of the Vietnam War, contemptuous of the anti-war movement.
As the first practical proponent of "natural" education--where the innate desire to learn is nourished and curiosity is unfettered--Pestalozzi abandoned the tradition of interminable lectures followed by student recitation that characterized typical instruction for all age groups, in favor of more active, hands-on activities.
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 Stanford Encyclopedia article
Another proponent of such dual aspect thinking is Chalmers (1996), who considers the possibility that the underlying, psychophysically neutral level of description could be best characterized in terms of information.
A prominent proponent of this approach at present is Vitiello.
Finally, there is the idea suggested by Beck and Eccles in the 1990s, according to which quantum mechanics is relevant for the description of exocytosis at the synaptic cleft.
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 The Encyclopedia of Water
He has testified before Congress on more than three dozen occasions, consulted with nearly every agency of the federal government as well as many foreign countries on every continent.
Dr. Lehr is an outspoken proponent of sane environmental regulation that does not distort problems to the economic detriment of society.
His personal best selling book on this subject "Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns" was published in 1992 by Van Nostrand Reinhold and is now in its third printing.
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