Sentence examples for champion accepted from inspiring English sources

Maryland, the Atlantic Coast Conference champion, accepted an invitation yesterday to the Orange Bowl, its first appearance in the game in 46 years.

A third of his returns of Nadal's high-grade serve were dropping inside the service boxes, gifts that the champion accepted on nearly every occasion.

A decade ago, Formula One fans and the media were outraged when the reigning world champion accepted his team's orders to pass his teammate and snatch victory from him.

The world champion accepted the two further strikes against her, the first a filing mismatch on the Adams whereabouts system, the second the result of Armitstead not updating her information after an emergency change of plans following a serious illness within her family.

Champions accept the fact that the end result to life is the same for everyone, and since no one will survive in the end, there is no point in playing it safe.

He has been seen as everything from the poet champion of accepted social hierarchy and the Elizabethan political settlement to a closet radical and secret Catholic.

Three weeks after the fight, however, the new champion inadvisedly accepted the hospitality of a stranger while on holiday in Tenerife and suffered a brutal machete attack.

The DFS Classic features Graf, the seven-time Wimbledon singles champion, who accepted a wild-card entry and was given the top seeding.

So were five former Open champions who accepted Prestwick's invitation: Tony Jacklin, Bob Charles, Lee Trevino, Peter Thomson and Sandy Lyle.

Celtic manager Neil Lennon has admitted that the Scottish champions have accepted an offer for midfielder Joe Ledley from Crystal Palace.

Project records were used to determine the number of school champions who accepted the follow-up CATI support call and additional calls from the school support officer.