The planners had championed the scheme to the council as an exemplary piece of urban infill. |
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No self-respecting activist desires to have his cause championed by any such horde of loud-mouthed, blatant blatherskites. |
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Mel championed a recycling and composting plan that will push Toronto to the forefront of waste diversion in North America. |
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He turned his science prof into an unhinged dictator in a satire that was later to be championed as a masterpiece by the absurdists. |
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He's won an adoring young following, after being championed by lads' magazines and a new generation of actors. |
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For the most part, the artists he championed after World War I concentrated on landscape and still life. |
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I championed earmark reform, also, to help Congress stop wasting money on those things that do not serve the public interest. |
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He was the editor who discovered or championed many of the world's most important fictionists and poets of the second half of the 20th century. |
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He championed victims of injustice and the public came to view him not as an impudent libertine but as a patriarch and a sage. |
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Wind power is championed by green groups because it is a non-exhaustible source of energy that causes minimal pollution. |
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Joan of Arc, I believe, was a revolutionary leader whose tragic end is a further affirmation of the fundamentality of the causes she championed. |
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The goal of one common culture, or an homogeneous public, championed by assimilationists, does not lead necessarily to an harmonious society. |
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They championed the opposing view that the developing human brain is a tabula rasa. |
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From the start, those that have championed the path of anarchy have exposed themselves as malcontents with selfish interests at heart. |
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Together they unceasingly championed women's health, co-education, and free love, in 1854 publishing a detailed critique of marriage. |
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As the author notes, Maria's case was championed by the Jesuits, while her doubters were the secular or parish clergy. |
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Can the vampires, championed by the beautifully dangerous Selene, stop them before it's too late? |
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While Wilson rightly championed liberty, he refused to ground his messianic zeal in American self-interest. |
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Pete and Frank are two Aussies blokes who championed the endangered bilby, and four years ago, began a campaign to create a sanctuary. |
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Instead they championed reactionary renegades and unfettered capitalist expansion. |
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Another piece of the story is that certain leaders in China championed this cause unflaggingly. |
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He championed human values in art and denounced what he considered the frivolity or vacuity of much contemporary painting and sculpture. |
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Erik's professional life was as variegated and diverse as the scholarship, films and videos he championed. |
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He was a fine and imaginative architect who nobly championed humanity against its many twentieth-century enemies. |
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Of course, throughout history, various observers have championed war as a preferred instrument of statecraft. |
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The contrary view to epigenesis, namely that the embryo was preformed from the beginning, was championed anew in the late 17th century. |
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The ideological cement binding the nation was the White Australia Policy, championed by the Australian Labor Party. |
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Volunteers descended on Brentford's river banks at the weekend to take part in a clean up campaign championed by locals. |
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He identified with the oppressed and exploited everywhere and championed their struggles for emancipation. |
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He used both his position and his power to promote social change, and always championed the underdog. |
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He also championed an initiative to increase college enrollment of Georgia's Black men. |
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Founded in 1968, the museum has always championed the work of Black artists. |
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Even some of those who have aggressively championed the marriage campaign fear they have made dubious bedfellows. |
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With its gallery journal, lectures and classes, SF Camerawork has consistently championed innovations in photography. |
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The club has championed a campaign to host a new tournament on the lucrative European Seniors' Tour programme next year. |
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A second approach, championed by Sidney Pollard, is to think of economic change in regional terms. |
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The new academic standards are part of a series of NCAA reforms championed by Division I university presidents and chancellors. |
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It championed democratic dissident movements behind the Iron Curtain as a challenge to Soviet power. |
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Boxer is perhaps best known for richly textured abstract canvases, championed by critic Clement Greenberg. |
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She was eloquent, vocal and strong when she championed the cause of her students and her teacher colleagues. |
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She championed the classics, with lavish productions of Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. |
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Here was a political consensus that a progressive government could have championed. |
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Littlewood's vision was not based on Shakespeare as the pinnacle of the English poesy, nor on the literary angry young men being championed by George Devine's Royal Court. |
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While King has shepherded The Good Wife, Commander in Chief was championed by ABC executive Anne Sweeney. |
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Although empiricists also used deductive reasoning, they put a greater emphasis on the inductive method championed by fellow British countryman Francis Bacon. |
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But Michael, you have betrayed those whose cause you once championed. |
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From the moment he stood on a tank in August 1991 to face down an attempted Communist coup, Yeltsin was championed by the West as Russia's great hope. |
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Not because he has authored or championed legislation that has expanded the scope of human freedom and flourishing. |
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Illyrian tribes championed iron over bronze in the Hallstatt period. |
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Other feminist sites have championed objectifying men in tit-for-tat fashion as empowering women. |
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The wide renown of Puvis, a chameleon of a painter, meant that his relatively anodyne pastorals could be championed by just about anybody for just about any purpose. |
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We saw that when he championed the shutdown of the federal government last fall. |
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And there was a time, prior to the one-two punch of Catwoman and Elektra, when superhero films were championed minority heroes. |
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This party, which long ago abandoned its past association with liberal social reforms, cannot and will not defend the programs it once championed. |
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The Labour Party historically has also championed human rights. |
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The White Australia policy was particularly championed by the ALP, the emerging trade union aristocracy and a whole host of petty bourgeois populists. |
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But beyond the issues he championed in this era of flaccid rhetoric and focus group-approved sound bytes, Wellstone had the rare ability to ignite a fire in his audiences. |
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Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, hoop Dreams, which was essential to its success. |
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Chick flicks have been both championed and vilified by women and men, scholars and popular audiences. |
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He championed the essaylike novel mainly because Tanizaki appeared to overpraise the novel that had an interesting story to tell. |
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Alfred also reformed the administration of justice, issued a new law code and championed a revival of scholarship and education. |
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Further, Eleanor championed the match, as Navarre bordered Aquitaine, thereby securing the southern border of her ancestral lands. |
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Among those who championed him were the writers Voltaire, Goethe, Stendhal, and Victor Hugo. |
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St Ives also houses the Leach Pottery, where Bernard Leach, and his followers championed Japanese inspired studio pottery. |
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Cask ale and bottle conditioned beer are championed by the Campaign for Real Ale under the name real ale. |
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Throughout this period, she also championed Percy Shelley's poetry, promoting its publication and quoting it in her writing. |
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His principal admiration was for Stalin, whose regime he championed uncritically throughout the decade. |
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It has been subsequently championed by celebrity chefs such as Bryn Williams, and is known to be favoured by Charles, Prince of Wales. |
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Greater realism was also achieved through the scientific study of anatomy, championed by artists like Donatello. |
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This method was championed by prominent Franciscans such as Toribio de Benavente. |
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Representative Young is the porkmeister who championed the notorious Bridge to Nowhere. |
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Brandeis lived to see many of the ideas that he had championed become the law of the land. |
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In contemporary legal theory, the utilitarian approach is frequently championed by scholars who work in the law and economics tradition. |
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This view was championed by Roger Sherman Loomis, Alfred Nutt and Jessie Weston. |
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But in the years that followed, the cause of the Spirituals became championed by far more substantial figures within the church. |
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Debbie Nathan championed Michaels in a 1988 Village Voice piece. |
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Another four birds, championed by Phil Tufnell, Brian May, Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Jeremy Vine are feared dead but not through long-lining. |
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Authorities later charged Tohti, who had championed Uighur rights, with separatism. |
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For instance, Oprah Winfrey always championed her best friend Gayle King. |
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He too championed the anti-apartheid cause, paid his dues, had his works banned. |
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Stuckists championed a return to art as a form of communication and expression rather than the nihilism and novelty of conceptual art. |
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The Pope took a much stronger stance on child abuse that his predecessor, disciplining a cleric championed by John Paul II and defrocking others. |
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Then there's David Beckham, who did his first major TV interview with Parky, and music comes from Jamie Cullum, who Parky has always championed. |
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A major Pivotal Position championed by Dr Matas was his support for the American College of Surgeons and opposition to fee splitting. |
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Sir Bob championed the cause of Charles William Alcock, who was born in Sunderland and is considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern-day football. |
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Nevertheless, she said ombuds can raise important issues such as the media's overuse of anonymous sources, a topic she championed while at the Post. |
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The gang from Saved by the Bell championed the bold print, loved a crop top, and the jock-style lettered jackets and t-shirts that can be regularly spotted around the city. |
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He had fiercely championed loveless ladies entering frustrated middle age, the married woman whose husband took her for granted and seldom into his arms. |
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At Chrysler in the 1990s, Mr. Lutz championed products like the Dodge Viper muscle car, the brawny Ram pickup, and the PT Cruiser retrostyled wagon. |
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William of Breteuil championed the rights of Robert, who was still abroad, returning from the Crusade, and to whom Henry and the barons had given homage in previous years. |
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Charles has controversially championed alternative medicine. |
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But Reid's was the philosophy taught in the colleges of North America during the 19th century and was championed by Victor Cousin, a French philosopher. |
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He championed Ibsen's plays when many theatregoers regarded them as outrageous, and his 1891 book Quintessence of Ibsenism remained a classic throughout the twentieth century. |
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Those that have championed his work have found the criticism baffling. |
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Leonardo da Vinci was one who championed the pure study of nature, and wished to depict the whole range of individual varieties of forms in the human figure and other things. |
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In 1978 two rock magazines wrote cover stories about power pop and championed the genre as a savior to both the new wave and the direct simplicity of the way rock used to be. |
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He was sought out by younger musicians such as Adrian Boult, Malcolm Sargent and John Barbirolli, who championed his music when it was out of fashion. |
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There, he rebelled against what he regarded as the unfinished style of fashionable painters such as Rubens, championed by the school's first president, Joshua Reynolds. |
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More seriously, he quarrelled with Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, probably because of Sidney's opposition to the French marriage, which de Vere championed. |
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For a submission to reach publication, it must be championed by an editor or publisher who must work to convince other staff of the need to publish a particular title. |
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A significant minority elected Unionists, who championed the Union. |
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William Shakespeare, whose works include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, remains one of the most championed authors in English literature. |
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They use EYE RHYMES, which Richard Lederer has championed in these pages. |
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