What is "championed"

Usage examples of "championed".

These articles often championed radical ideas, and they were so skillfully blended with entertainment that the magazine was an enormous success.

But if you see the novel as an allegory, you might agree that they are not meant to represent full-bodied characters, but the alternative to the strict, bloodless theories and practices championed by Bounderby and Gradgrind.

Those who championed the lofty notions of the Order were indignantly blind to the endless misery and death they caused.

I admit that I hadn’t planned for you to go, but it seems my daughter thought otherwise, and because she championed you, you live.

She'd championed the experimental Furs on Greentrees and she hated the callous Furs here.

He tried with all his heart to love them and not fear them, this new generation for whom he had suffered so much, whose freedom he had championed at the cost of his own liberty and professional advancement.

Now that the security of the Edinburgh Parapsychology Unit was compromised, there seemed little hope that they could continue on the cautious schedule of action championed by Denis Remillard and Tamara Sakhvadze and the other operant conservatives, who advocated delaying the public announce­ment of EE capability until there were at least a thousand adept prac­titioners scattered around the world.

By order of the Lylmik Supervisors, the commemoration was to be deliberately conspicuous, reminding the populace of this war-torn Earth nation of a truth they had once championed — that human beings were not alone in the starry universe.

Not only had she made it plain they were acquainted, she had outlined the circumstances of their meeting and then championed him in a way that wouldn't go unnoticed.

Surely no one would think Wolf would attack the one person in town who'd championed him, and she'd made it plain how she felt.

Then she had come to town, an Anglo woman, but instead of aligning herself with the townspeople, she had championed the Mackenzies.