Parliament's amendments were a major defeat for the directive's original proponents.

He was the original proponent of a separation of church and state.

He is cited as one of the original proponents of the commission form of government.

However, it faded away as its original proponents abandoned the underlying attitudes which were supposed to go along with it.

He was among the original proponents of legal racial equality.

It thus may need to be understood, incidentally, more strictly than its original proponent intended.

Then accordingly, the original proponent gets the right to counter-match any superior offers given by the third party.

The government can offer the original proponent an advantage in a competitive bidding process.

In this case the government should create rewards that satisfy the original proponent while still allowing a truly competitive process.

The advantage given to the original proponent in the bidding is usually intended to compensate for use of the project concept.