Today's high-tech midwives, however, still tend to champion low-tech innovations like water birth, which Ms. Simkin calls "the midwife's epidural".
James Tooley and Pauline Dixon of Newcastle University in England, who research and champion low-cost private schools, found that in the slums of some major cities in India and Africa, more children go to private schools than to public schools.
But the case study proposed that, while the whole world runs after the high-suds market, a great idea would be to champion low-suds soap for the 20percentt who will buy it.
An articulate and passionate defender of conservative causes, Kemp supported the Vietnam War, advocated high levels of defense spending, championed low tax rates, and opposed abortion rights.
Mr. Toomey served three terms in the House, from 1999 to 2005, and later became president of the Club for Growth, which champions low taxes, free markets and limited government.
The former group, most frequently associated with likes of Mitt Romney, George H.W. Bush and, in this election cycle, Jeb Bush and John Kasich, has strong ties to big business, champions low taxes, but also the need to actually govern, and while frequently taking conservative positions on social issues, rarely place great emphasis on those issues.
You need not look too hard to find someone championing low-cost mutual funds.
Mr. Champion said low reliability scores dragged down the ratings of G.M. vehicles.
Müller became a champion of Low German language and culture through her many appearances on stage, screen and radio.
But analysts said the public spat had worked out well for the supermarket, as tabloid newspapers widely portrayed Tesco as a people's champion on low prices.
Mr. Dagueneau is a highly vocal champion of low yields in the vineyards, and like many crusaders, he does not hesitate to denounce competitors who he contends make thin, characterless wines.
