(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).
Wiz
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm totally in favour of electric cars and I would have replaced it with a new G-Wiz if the City of London hadn't withdrawn its free parking for electric vehicles - without that incentive, the numbers don't add up."
(2) With a range of 100 miles, the Leaf will be able to go without the plug socket for more than double what first generations of the iconic G-Wiz electric car managed and should avoid drivers being worried they will become stranded after running out of power.
(3) "This [new grant scheme] is now a disincentive for anyone looking at buying the quadricycle type of electric vehicles [such as its G-Wiz].
(4) Until now, electric cars have been criticised for being too expensive (the California-based Tesla roadster costs around £90,000) or looking more like go-karts than real cars (think G-Wiz).
(5) Some of the roles… because I was from Kansas I got The Wiz – but I don't really want to talk about that.
(6) In the UK, the electric trailblazer has been the G-Wiz, the tiny Indian-built car popularised by London-based distributor Goingreen.
(7) A larger than life character, he often squeezes into a chauffeur-driven G-Wiz electric car when driving in the City.
(8) When the American rapper Wiz Khalifa’s album went No 1 in the US, his wife, Amber Rose, responded by releasing a short video of herself with back to the camera, her rear bubbling away like a simmering pot of pasta sauce.
(9) Along the way, the Wiz franchise that had become a relic of MLS's childhood gave way to Sporting KC, with a new venue and a fervent fanbase to match.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wiz Khalifa at Los Angeles international airport on 18 August.
(11) Antony Buck, co-founder of REN Skincare and G-Wiz owner, lives in London "Unlike a petrol car, you let people go, you let people pull out, it's a much less aggressive thing to be sitting in than a car - so you end up smiling.
(12) Michael Robinson, works at the Guardian and lives in Crouch End, London "I had a relatively gentle crash in my G-Wiz DC drive involving a white van at 20mph, which left the car as a write-off.
(13) Existing electric car distributors such as Goingreen – whose £9,000 G-Wiz is ineligible for the scheme – may also be hit as buyers delay purchasing an electric vehicle until the grants begin in 2011.
(14) VW presented a three-seater electric concept car, called the E-Up, capable of 0-62mph in 11.3 seconds, a top speed of 84mph and a range of "over 80 miles" in between charges - more than the UK's G-Wiz L-Ion but less than Norway's TH!NK City .
(15) "It might be the first year people notice electric cars driving around – normal people rather than G-Wiz owners," he said.
(16) Drivers of existing electric cars, such as the G-Wiz, Mitsubishi i-MiEV and Nissan Leaf, have to connect a cable from a socket in the side of the car street-side parking meter-like stands to mains sockets in car parks and at home.
(17) An Instagram video shows Wiz Khlaifa being held down by US customs officers.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wiz Khalifa, in happier times.
(19) Haemodynamic investigations on the autograft model of the dog after 30 minutes WIZ resulted in a pathologically increased renal vascular resistance and in a restricted filtration function up to 4 weeks post transplantationem.
(20) Partly this was my very Jewish anxieties: "Oy vey, you vill grow old wiz no children?