(v. t.) To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
(2) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(3) Mutai dropped back and Kebede proved too strong for Kirui, the world champion.
(4) At least any notion that this tournament had meant little to the European champions can be dispelled.
(5) It is this combination that explains the widespread fascination with how China's economic size or power compares to America's, and especially with the question of whether the challenger has now displaced the long-reigning champion.
(6) The prerequisite for all champions is the refusal to cave in, so City's equaliser with only three minutes remaining was pleasing.
(7) "Consider this, all six or so hours of his Champions League finals would have been torture."
(8) Just when Everton thought they might start 2014 by keeping Liverpool out of the Champions League positions, they came close to failing the wet Wednesday at Stoke test thanks to a goal from an Anfield loanee.
(9) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
(10) And what next for Channel 4's other great digital radio champion, its director of new business and corporate development, Nathalie Schwarz?
(11) This is what we hope is the best golf tournament in the world, one of the greatest sporting events, and I think we will have a very impressive audience and have another great champion to crown this year."
(12) Until the bell, 19-year-old Lizzie Armitstead figured strongly in a leading group of 12 that at one point enjoyed a two-minute lead, racing comfortably alongside the Olympic time-trial champion Kristin Armstrong.
(13) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
(14) Champions League would be better than Europa League, but it makes it difficult to get the result.
(15) His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi The Crown Prince is a leading champion in the Middle East for improving child health.
(16) As Greece pleads with its eurozone creditors for more time in meeting its fiscal adjustment targets, Dombrovskis is a fierce champion of surgical austerity applied quickly and ruthlessly.
(17) Already this season they have won three trophies and could yet make it five out of six if they win the Champions League and Copa del Rey.
(18) I will destroy you.” Khan, a former WBA and IBF light world welterweight champion, also turned on Manny Pacquiao, accusing him and his team, led by Bob Arum, of providing conflicting reasons for choosing to fight Timothy Bradley in April, instead of the Bolton born boxer.
(19) Even the three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania , whose EU membership was championed by Britain, seemed reluctant to offer him public support.
(20) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
Paladin
Definition:
(n.) A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paladin Energy, which mines uranium in Malawi and Namibia (the largest sources of uranium oxide, or "yellowcake", after Kazakhstan, Canada and Australia), has warned that if the price stays depressed, supply will dip by 25% by 2020.
(2) Laura Richards is founder of the Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service.
(3) I like to think of Childe Roland, the paladin whose journey to the Dark Tower forms the basis of my new book The Broken King , as on the fringes of the Arthurian court: perhaps he pricked past Arthur on the plain, had a friendly joust, and galloped off again, his helm glinting in the sunlight.
(4) Laura Richards, chief executive of Paladin, which supports stalking victims , welcomed the guidance but said: "Specialist led training is vital and the lack of investment in prosecutors' training to date has resulted in many of our victims being continually let down and put further at risk.
(5) In my work as the chair of Paladin , the national stalking advocacy service, and in my role as a solicitor specialising on stalking, I see so many victims being treated equally appallingly on a regular basis.
(6) Not many things shock me because we see so much at Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service , but the situation Lily Allen found herself in is disgraceful.
(7) In fact, by the late 1960s Frost was already making programmes with his own production house, David Paladine Ltd (Paladine was his middle name), again pioneering something now common in TV.
(8) The efficacy was evaluated according to the criteria of Paladine et al.
(9) Laura Richards of the stalking advice service Paladin has called stalking “murder in slow motion”.
(10) In an ideal world there would be no need for charities such as Paladin or lawyers like myself trying to plug the gaps in the criminal justice system, but we are a very long way from this.
(11) Lily does have the means and the wherewithal and she was hugely resilient, but advocacy within the system is needed, and that’s what Paladin is for.
(12) • Tina, not her real name, has been supported by the advice service Paladin which supports high-risk victims of stalking.
(13) Craving intellectual and political prestige, the DIY jihadists receive helpful endorsements from the self-proclaimed paladins of the west, such as Michael Gove, Britain’s leading American-style neocon.
(14) The Women’s Equality party has taken up Paladin’s campaign for a serial stalkers “register and order”, which would place positive obligations on the perpetrator rather than simply waiting for his next victim to make a complaint.