Carthen is a longtime proponent of civic engagement, social justice and youth advocacy.

Goldman Sachs has been a longtime proponent of reducing carbon emissions.

All of which has longtime proponents of the drug feeling oddly optimistic and even overexposed.

Fowler, a longtime proponent of deregulation, had determined that children's television should be dictated by the marketplace.

And in Congress he has been a longtime proponent of energy deregulation, an issue dear to Enron.

Reyes had been a longtime proponent of bar integration in the Philippines.

As a longtime proponent of recess, I believe the young must play.

"We knew that," said Selig, a longtime proponent of the unbalanced schedule.

He is a longtime proponent of index funds, which buy a fixed basket of stocks and deliver market returns.

Now, though, many longtime proponents of a waterfront park say everything is finally in place to break the deadlock.