In recent years Bateson in particular has championed the idea of saltatory, or so-called discontinuous evolution, and has collected a number of cases in which more or less marked variations have suddenly appeared.
While a passionate Jew at heart, he championed the cause of Russification, though not in the extreme form of spiritual self-effacement.
The resolution to submit an amendment was championed in the Senate by Senators Fred Tucker of Ardmore, John Golobie of Guthrie, Walter Ferguson of Cherokee and many others.
Emmett Cavette of Noxubee county strongly championed it and Speaker Quin left the chair to make a speech in its favor.
Throughout the campaign the Omaha Daily News valiantly championed the amendment and the Bee and the World Herald as strongly opposed it.
By sheer power of his matchless oratory and unanswerable logic he won case after case for his clients and it is a tribute to his name to record the plain fact that in all his career he never championed a cause of which he need be ashamed.
Who was this young woman who championed so warmly his own son?
He saw the great movement which he had championed checked by many difficulties and suffering some disastrous reverses.
He edited their weekly paper, and championed their cause on all occasions.
A few enterprising, aggressive men championed the measure so earnestly that the Park became a reality in less than two years after the idea originated.
The ice theory is championed by John Muir, by Clarence King, and by F.
The cause Gentz championed was a bad cause, but even the champion of a bad cause is interesting if possessed of remarkable talent.
The theater was anything in the world other than "the moral institution" demanded by Schiller and championed by d'Alembert.
Messengers sent by the Caliph persuaded him to accept Islam, envoys from Byzantium endeavored to win him over to Christianity, and representatives of Judaism championed their own faith.
Yet it is much to be regretted that he failed to do so, since the deference which was accorded his authority throughout the Middle Ages would doubtless have been extended in some measure at least to this theory as well, had he championed it.
We have already had occasion to mention that Parmenides championed the idea that the earth is round; noting also that doubts exist as to whether he or Pythagoras originated this doctrine.
Hampden, as before, championed the rights of the people in his own person, going to prison and facing death, if it were necessary, rather than pay the amount of 20 shillings.
Our whole investigation has championed the view that the turning to the spiritual life implies a movement of the world: wherever the independence of the spiritual life is acknowledged the supremacy of reason cannot be doubted.
During the period of which I purpose describing the spiritual life it was so championed in all those domains, but at the time now referred to it was overthrown in them all.
During the first stage of the reaction the principle of sentiment was opposed to the dominion of reason; during the second, the principle of authority is championed against all former principles, that of sentiment included.
What might not have been the fate of "philosophy," if the cause of God had been championed by genius instead of by virtue alone!
The other, as it seems to me, is fixed by the notion, now warmly championed by some younger critics both at home and abroad, that criticism must be of all things "scientific.
Though he could not have been very sensible, from what he himself says, of their highest qualities, he championed Scott's novels incessantly against the Whigs and prigs of Holland House.
He was held up as a hypocrite that championed the People from the platform and sweated the poor in the shops.
Forbes enlisted in the ranks of the new organization and championed it wherever he went, not least among the workers in his factory.
The theory that he championed was based on the assumption that there was a "vital principle," the nature of which was unknown, but which differed from the thinking mind, and was the cause of the phenomena of life.
Hartley had championed the theory of the close and indissoluble dependence of the mind upon the brain, and formulated a famous vibration theory of association that still merits careful consideration.
Correll, of Nebraska, who so nobly championed the suffrage amendment in the State Legislature last winter, and who now, by speech and pen, devotes himself to secure its final success.
I have always championed woman's right to vote; but it will be seen that the present claim for the negro is one of the most urgent necessity.
It would have been in vain had a St. Jerome of olden days, a mediæval St. Bernard or a Geiler of Kaysersberg championed the cause of Canon Law against Luther and his nun in the glowing language they knew so well how to use.
On X leaving prison Wilbraham championed and defended him, put him up for months in his rooms in Duke Street, walked as often as possible in his company down Piccadilly, and took him over to Paris.
This was introduced and championed in the Senate by R.
This bill was presented and championed in the House by R.
A strong suffrage plank was added to the platform of the federation, and Miss Griffin was invited by it to address the Legislature in the interest of the Child Labor Bill, which it had championed so unsuccessfully for a number of years.
Both Republicans and Populists having declared for the submission of a woman suffrage amendment, the Legislature of 1893 passed a bill for this purpose, championed by Representative E.
The first bill presented called for enfranchisement by special statute and was introduced and championed in the Assembly by Judge E.
In 1892 Wendell Phillips Stafford introduced the Municipal Suffrage Bill into the House; it was made a special order and was championed by Messrs.
The cause championed by Earl marched to a glorious triumph at the polls, but he took no part in the jollification that followed.
They intuitively assumed, it seemed, opposite sides on every question that arose pertaining to the race, and championed their respective sides with much warmth and vigor.
Marshall had championed the Jay Treaty, and, in doing so, had necessarily taken the side of Great Britain as opposed to France.
He fought against injustice; he championed the weak against the strong; he gave courage to the faint, and hope to the weary in heart; and in the love which the public gave him in return he found his best reward.
It may be presumed that his animosity arose from the fact that Lady Mary had championed Molly Skerritt against his mother, when Miss Skerritt was living openly as the mistress of Sir Robert Walpole.
Walpole, it has been suggested, disliked her much because she had championed his father's mistress, Molly Skerritt, against the mother to whom he was devoted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "championed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
