6 sentences with 'champion'
Example sentences and phrases with the word champion and other words derived from it.
• « The guerrilla Savimbi was a champion of free enterprise, free elections and self-determination. »
• « The brilliance of Julius Caesar's move was that he could pose as the champion of his loyal troops, as well as of the common people of Rome, whom he promised to help against corrupt and arrogant senators; he never intended to act on his own, but to protect his and his men's legal rights and to resist the corruption of the Senate. »
• « Bakunin believed that if his contemporary society was destroyed, the social instincts inherent in humanity would flourish and people would "naturally" build a better society. He was also the great champion of outcasts, bandits and the urban poor. »
• « Tsar Nicholas I continued to rule for decades (r. 1825 - 1855), and during that time he did everything in his power to champion the conservative cause. »
• « However, the demand for women's suffrage was hampered by the fact that male politicians across the political spectrum refused to champion the issue, albeit for different reasons. »
• « These former prisoners wanted Mikhail Gorbachev to acknowledge that the system of which he is now the champion had arrested, imprisoned and tortured thousands of men and women like them for crimes such as speaking and thinking freely. »