George Weigel, who heads the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, described the Pope as "the world's foremost spokesman for hope."

But even in retirement, Gretzky remains the league's foremost spokesman.

Arthur came to be accepted as one of the foremost spokesmen of missionary opinion in East Africa and worked enthusiastically for inter-mission co-operation.

Alas, the president himself, who should be the foremost spokesman of the cause of Union, favors a more limited program than Clay's.

From 1979 to 1980 he served as the minister of foreign affairs, and continued to be one of Japan's foremost academic spokesmen.

And Mr. Jackson, perhaps the foremost spokesman for the party's left flank, discounted the importance of the party's drift away from old-fashioned liberalism.

The philosopher Peter Singer has called Balluch "one of the foremost spokesmen in the worldwide animal rights movement for pursuing the nonviolent, democratic road to reform."

Bonnevie was also active in national politics, where he was the Conservative Party's foremost spokesman on educational issues.

Mr. Rupp has been one of the foremost spokesmen nationally urging a renewed emphasis on teaching as opposed to research.

He was our foremost spokesman for the arts.