partidario
adherent ; advocate ; believer ; follower ; devotee ; supporter ; backer ; partisan ; sympathiser [sympathiser, -USA].
The faithful adherents of the ideology of the finding catalog were determined to combat the unwelcome intrusion of Panizzi's scheme before the Royal Commission.
Sanford Berman has been an early, continuing, and outspoken advocate of user-oriented cataloging service.
I am a great believer in international cooperation, but international cooperation involves also the United States; it involves us.
Significantly, however, Panizzi's rules did not prove as viable as did his ideology, and they were promptly and materially changed and recast by his most ardent admirers and followers.
'Punch' satirised the opponents more cruelly: 'Here is an institution doomed to scare the furious devotees of laissez faire'.
Then, a series of unfortunate circumstances (the outbreak of the war, family problems) deprived the project of its promoter and most passionate supporter.
The author urges librarians and library backers to be more assertive in their requests for funding.
Only a man like D'Andrea, willing to use force without stint or limit, could rise to leadership against John Powers & his protected, armed partisans.
The enumeration at 940.5316: Children and other noncombatants; Pacifists; Enemy sympathizers seems a little unkind, if nothing else.
encontrar partidarios
find + friends
It is the ideology which was urged against Panizzi and was cogently disproved by him before the Royal Commission but whose seductive simplicity has always found friends to keep it alive.
ganarse partidarios
gather + a following
win + Nombre + a following
gain + a following
They are also a place where untested ideas or authors can prove themselves and gather a following.
His public statements on art quickly won him a following among young students of art.
While the DVD format is gaining a following among video developers, its application in the education market has advanced only very slowly.
partidario de Europa
Europeanist
Other initiatives aim to develop greater links between Europeanists within Asia and the Pacific.
partidario de la disciplina férrea
strict disciplinarian
Softly-spoken, but a strict disciplinarian, Madugalle is widely-respected.
partidario del laicismo
secularist
Some Christian conservatives have joined with secularists to attack polygamy as an aberrant and immoral behavior, lumping polygamists in with homosexuals.
partidario del régimen
loyalist
He ends his book with a discussion of the politicizing effects of the actions of conservatives and loyalists at the end of the century.
partidario incondicional
stalwart
They both were stalwarts of their generational struggle to emancipate humanity from oppression and class prejudice.
ser partidario de
be partial to
espouse
align + Reflexivo + with
be enthusiastic about
root for
be a fan of
Certainly there are those who, because they themselves are not partial to change, will continue to seek out our present institutions and in their present form.
Most respondents espoused the latter view as an appropriate response to IT developments to date.
This article argues that fiction is an area of stock development which would readily achieve the goals of development with which public librarians have aligned themselves.
I'm less enthusiastic about this criticism of ISBD than I am in my endorsement of his stress on the importance of the main entry.
I didn't know her from Adam but started rooting for her from day 1 of the competition.
I've always been a fan of putting jam on my grilled cheese on toast (I think it's best with a chunky homemade apricot or blackberry jam).
ser partidario de una idea
favour + idea
Half the respondents favoured the idea when it was explained; the rest opposed it, one of the main reasons given being that there was a lack of neighbour agreement.
tener sus partidarios y detractores
receive + mixed reviews
Although 70% of the country's 2-year and 4-year colleges are offering online courses, the method of delivery is receiving mixed reviews.
