Champion
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469 examples of Champion in a sentence
Promising “clean government” and “law and order,” and casting himself as the
champion
of the military and police, he has the credentials to lead an authoritarian backlash.
It has surpassed the United States as the world’s largest source of greenhouse gases, and it became developing nations’ diplomatic
champion
at the recent United Nations climate negotiations in Bali.
In the 1996 match, Deep Blue stunned the
champion
by beating him in the first game.
Deep Blue shocked the champion, winning the match 3.5 to 2.5.
Technology has helped thoroughly globalize chess, with the Indian Vishy Anand now the first Asian world champion, and the handsome young Norwegian Magnus Carlsen having reached rock-star status.
Our sole world
champion
in any sport is the chess grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand – in another non-Olympic sport, and one that calls for brain, not brawn.
But what matters are southern Europe’s costs of production relative to those of Germany, Europe’s export
champion.
Indeed, Zidane’s status as an emblematic
champion
of the world’s most universal and popular sport does not fully explain why people have been so obsessed with him.
Here is a man who was not only a world champion, but also a model son and father.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in her customary prudent and deliberate manner, has emerged as the most effective
champion
of those values, making it clearer than ever before that demonstrating respect and dignity for all is a core principle of the European Union.
Big banks like the idea that regulation should care less about banks’ size and more about their riskiness, and so
champion
a “risk-sensitive” approach – not least because they have the bigger risk-management operations and databases, so risk-sensitive regulation is more onerous for their smaller competitors.
The Netherlands has been a
champion
of innovation, gaining a fifth-place ranking in the recent INSEAD Global Innovation Index.
But a newly hired neurosurgeon with 27 years of education may have to read a thick user manual, attend tedious classes, and accept periodic tutoring from a “change champion” to master the various steps required to use his hospital’s IT system.
I was co-host with Bhutan’s prime minister, Jigme Thinley, a leader in sustainable development and a great
champion
of the concept of “GNH.”
As Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James, and Jean-Pierre Landau explain, Germany has become the
champion
of a rules-based system that emphasizes keeping deficits low and generally prohibits bailing out debtors.
For each innovative
champion
that sells cutting-edge products on the global market, there are many poorly managed companies with fewer than ten employees that produce only for the local market.
But Peres was offered by Rabin’s deputy an opportunity to
champion
a track two negotiation with the PLO in Oslo, and, with Rabin’s consent, took charge of the talks, bringing them to a successful conclusion in August 1993.
Even now, Yanukovych is attempting to amend tax rules in order to disqualify the popular Vitali Klitschko, a
champion
boxer and former German resident, from standing for President.
Trump’s highly conservative cabinet choices – who include an uncommon number of billionaires – are not at all consonant with his campaign, during which he presented himself as the
champion
of blue-collar workers, the non-ideological businessman who would make the government work.
As irksome as some of America’s actions have been, particularly over the past eight years, America remains the world’s most critical
champion
of the progressive values that have lifted hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty and political repression.
It should transform its immigration policy to recruit the best and brightest people from around the world to move to the US and become citizens, and remain the world’s leading
champion
of open markets, especially during the current financial crisis.
Until this happens, let us all hope that America can get back on track as the global
champion
of collaborative action to address the world’s greatest challenges and work with as many other countries as possible to move collectively in the right direction.
Finally, in 1997, the IBM computer Deep Blue defeated world chess
champion
Gary Kasparov in a short match.
Isn’t the computer world champion, they asked?
It is this vital multilateral ethos that Europe must
champion.
Its airport has become a global hub of such significance that German regulators recently had to force Emirates Airlines to raise its rates to Frankfurt, lest national
champion
Lufthansa lose too much business.
The tennis
champion
Rafael Nadal does not really know what it is that he does when he successfully returns a serve.
This makes a mockery of its claim to
champion
the eurozone as a rules-based club.
Her decision to form an alliance of convenience with Pakistan’s unpopular military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, continues to undermine her claim to be a restorer of democracy and
champion
of the street.
Skeptics will scoff that Trump is an unlikely
champion
of such an effort; but, frankly, who would have guessed 15 years ago that Bush would be the key mover of the financial scale-up of the fight against AIDS?
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