With Mr. Mahathir leading the campaign, the cause of capital controls will have a fiery advocate who has a penchant for getting under the skin of Westerners.

Although he was not a Catholic, he became a fiery advocate of Catholic Emancipation in Britain.

Powis, once decentralization's most fiery white advocate, added, "I would be satisfied with the new chancellor if in his first year he gets rid of at least 10 or 12 superintendents."

Coleridge's interest in France was relatively minor, but he was a fiery advocate for radical reform at home.

Mr. Darden is a fiery advocate, but, as he repeatedly acknowledged this week, he is also a great friend and admirer of Mr. Cochran.

So Mr. Christensen is back, this time as a fiery advocate for an ailing sea and its mournful fishermen.

But this time, its fiery advocates want to break up cities, not a nation, and talk of devolution, not revolution.

The wars in the Balkans in recent years have been conveniently forgotten when fiery advocates of an almighty Europe tell us the new Europe has prevented and stopped wars.

He is regarded by his detractors and his admirers, grudging and otherwise, as a fiery advocate and a skilled and tenacious cross-examiner.

A fiery advocate of states' rights, he served as member of the state secession convention in 1861 and voted for the ordinance of secession.