Promoters
[prə'motɚ]
Examples
- Draper, of the University of New York, and the Eastman Walker Company, of Rochester, were the chief promoters of dry plate photography. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- That encouraged the promoters, and they issued a little circular describing the business. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A determined stand was made against it, and the promoters and their engineers, chief among whom was Stephenson, had to be very modest in their claims. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Public diversions have always been the objects of dread and hatred to all the fanatical promoters of those popular frenzies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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