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Best of all, he is not a proselytiser, much less a saint.

He was also an inventor and proselytiser of early British electronic music.

She once encountered a proselytiser from a religious group.

Another librarian, a keen proselytiser of the new ways, said:

But it would be unfair to characterise Daldry as a proselytiser, or even as a sentimentalist.

Denis Mahony was a minister of the Church of Ireland and a keen proselytiser.

I Map Hidden away down a Clifton cul-de-sac, this sweet neighbourhood bistro is a passionate proselytiser for the Slow Food campaign.

The psychedelic proselytiser, Timothy Leary, was given the book by a colleague soon after returning from Mexico where he had first taken psilocybin mushrooms in the summer of 1960.

At number 6 he was brusquely told to 'bugger off' by a middle-aged giant of a man, heavily tattooed from wrists to muscular shoulders, who supposed the caller to be some peripatetic proselytiser.

Politically, Sayle is more ambiguous than he was 30 years ago - "There are no clear monsters as there were in the Thatcher era" - although he was never a proselytiser.

John Watts became an active proselytiser for secularism, and in 1863 was appointed editor of the National Reformer, a radical periodical founded by Bradlaugh, with Charles as assistant editor.

Maybe they should lock this pucker-lipped proselytiser in the same warehouse 'abroad' to personally sign each one and then wait for the hoards of eager people queuing upside to get their very own copy.

Melody Maker, originally founded as a jazz magazine, had a notable proselytiser for the music in Max Jones on its staff, but it had abandoned its coverage of jazz by the late 1970s.

He's also a tireless proselytiser for music's power to transcend political divisions, and in 1999 co-founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Edward Said to bring together Israeli and Arab musicians.

Rev. Dallas and the Irish Church Missions, with the Anglican philanthropist and proselytiser Mrs Ellen Smyly, helped set up schools and homes in Townsend St., Dublin.

Iqbal Shabandari had started his career as a fervent proselytiser for the largely apolitical Tablighi Jamaat and later on became an Islamist ideologue who recruited several Pune men into the Indian Mujahideen.

To draw up a list of its pleasures and rewards, he borrows initially from Thomas Hiram Holdings, a Victorian proselytiser who saw camping out as instructive of all the manly qualities such as self-reliance and stoicism.

He considered it a Hebrew name, in spite of the fact that Delavane's father had insisted on it for his first son in honor of the Roman Caesar the philosopher Marcus Aurelius, a proselytiser of moderation. '

In part, the choice was due to Willibrord's reputation as a talented proselytiser (he is known as the Apostle to the Frisians), and, in part, due to the danger posed to his see of Utrecht by pagan Frisian raiders.

Last week, even Richard Black, another BBC proselytiser for man-made warming, was gloomily having to reveal the conclusion of a new IPCC report: that, over the next few decades, "climate change signals are expected to be relatively small compared to natural climate variabilty".

Then you take someone and turn them into a proselytizer.

The foundation will find proselytizers among the 50 employees who have joined the program.

She could be the strong moral proselytizer one moment, and the lost little girl in the middle of burning Atlanta the next.

He has even become something of a proselytizer for the road's healing powers.

She has become a proselytizer for the young people entering her favored field.

Unfairly or not, the idea of the band as proselytizers put me off.

Johnson returned from Germany as a proselytizer for the new architecture.

"I don't see myself as a missionary or a proselytizer," she said.

But Chad was a born proselytizer, and a short talk got some enthusiasm back into him.

But the best popular history writers are great storytellers, not proselytizers.

Her daughter was a born proselytizer; where she would end up was anyone's guess at the moment.

"The problem with proselytizers is that they leave no room for those who disagree with them."

In this way, he was more of a proselytizer than his counterpart, Eckhart.

Patrick was a scholar and teacher as well as a proselytizer.

What more, a Formula One proselytizer might ask, do you want from a sport?

He is no proselytizer, and he does not pretend to have found the answer to cancer.

It is the world's largest network of Islamic proselytizers.

You can allow proselytizers to circulate among your employees.

But can the great philosophers over on Proselytizers' Rise see that?

It will mean, as music director, doing the impossible: becoming proselytizer, priest, protector.

IT'S funny how people become converts to a place, and then proselytizers.

Send them out as proselytizers, if you can spare them."

With a mind built around that, Isaac thought giddily, no wonder this thing's a proselytizer.

Ideally, the person should be a presence in the region, a proselytizer for the art form who can cultivate audiences.