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Usage examples of champion.

For Adams, who had so long championed a strong, independent judiciary as proper balance to the other two branches, it was a major improvement and he proceeded at once to fill the new positions.

Rush, a champion of reform in education, thought Greek and Latin were outmoded and should be replaced with the study of modern languages, which Adams considered thoroughly wrongheaded.

His victory at the North American championship at Fairbanks began a fierce but gentlemanly rivalry with perennial champion and Alaskan Native George Attla.

In our own time, you can hear Qoraishites, and even Alids, warmly defend the claims of the Turkish sultans to the Khalifate, as they regard these as the only Moslim princes capable of championing the threatened rights of Islam.

He sat in an eating alcove with Allel and his children and some of the champions of his household.

Sleepy Lagoon murder case, and the efforts of Anglos like Carey McWilliams and Alice Greenfield to champion Mexican causes.

Now and then a light chapter might be introduced, setting forth how he and other youngsters of the Blood Royal were wont to take an occasional game at High-Jinks, or tourney in air lists, the champions on opposite sides flying from the Perthshire and from the Argyllshire mountains, and encountering with a clash in the azure common, six thousand feet high.

Victorian richness and lushness of sentiment which was alien to them, but he was also a champion of such Augustan poets as Dryden and Crabbe at a period when their merits were often under-valued.

Spiff and the prisoner and the hall gradually emptied as the various groups of Borribles made their way back to their own houses, cellars and sheds, to discuss the morning meeting and to wonder who would be chosen as the Battersea champion to go with the others.

With the Reverend Jesse Jackson championing the side of the black Bermudians as well as pressing his third presidential candidacy, President Tucker was of course anxious not to alienate black voters.

Joe was having to spend several days a week with accountants, attorneys, court appearances, even finding a new home for her champion Birman cat, who now lived in Chicago with a former housekeeper.

He was being solicited for an opinion as to who would live and who would die that morning: Stimon the Locrian or Opilmenos the Boeotian, due to fight a duel later on as champions of their respective tribes.

The champion of Adeln kicked a bootheel against the floor, and then took two running steps and kicked out hard with that foot.

The champion was named brickie of the month and achieved great renown.

The platform also embraced a distinct declaration for a radical reform of the civil service, making a broader and more precise enunciation than was contained in the Liberal platform of 1872, though the assigned reason for that revolt, as given by its champions, was the alleged hostility of the Republican party to improvement in the Government service.