The Collaborative International Dictionary
Champion \Cham"pi*on\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Championed; p. pr.
& vb. n. Championing.] [Obs.]
--Shak.
2. To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as
champion; to support or maintain; to protect.
Championed or unchampioned, thou diest.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of champion English)
Usage examples of "championing".
In other words, the healing impulse comes not from championing functional fit (Lower Right) but mutual understanding (Lower Left).
In other words, the healing impulse comes from championing not functional fit (Lower Right) but mutual understanding (Lower Left) and interior qualitative distinctions (Upper Left).
The connectionist and society models, in fact, are prime examples of subtle reductionism: in championing emergence, networks, global properties, holarchies, and so forth, they loudly battle the gross reductionism of simple atomistic representationismonly to ensconce their own subtle reductionism in a way that makes it all the harder to spot (and thus doubly reinforces the primary problem).
But then, when it comes to the spiritual orientation that will supplant and heal this agency-laden "patriarchal" worldview, she ends up almost incomprehensibly championing a broad form of vipassana/Theravadin Buddhism, the East's archetypal and merely Ascending path, which is radically dualistic and hyper-hyperagentic, a pure Goddess-denying, Descent-denying, Goodness-denying, Plenitude-denying path, a path that historically has denied and devalued the body, the earth (samsara), sex (and the ultimate sin-temptation, woman).
Some of the extremer pacifists, starting out with a complete renunciation of violence, have ended by warmly championing Hitler and even toying with antisemitism.
With the out-and-out, turn-the-other-cheek pacifists you come upon the much stranger phenomenon of people who have started by renouncing violence, ending by championing Hitler.
I'm a good person, I'm a doctor, and here I am championing greed over selflessness, cheering on the haves against the have-nots.
On the face of it, you'll be a liberal Democrat championing the rights of operant metapsychics and other minorities.
On the one side were Denis and Jamie and Vigdis, championing nonaggression, and on the other side, insisting that operants must now defend themselves and their countries with mental as well as physical force, were Tamara and Zhenyu and — the shame!