Sentence examples for championed by performance from inspiring English sources

But rather than engaging in a re-badge for re-badging's sake, BMW has built a better two-door, with the longer, lower, wider stance long championed by performance coupes from US manufacturers, and a new turbocharged four-cylinder engine called on for low-end punch and improved efficiency.

Curtail funding to UN agencies if they failed to deliver under a performance-related approach being championed by the Swedish development minister, Gunilla Carlsson.

Messiaen's music was by this time championed by, among others, Pierre Boulez, who programmed first performances at his Domaine musical concerts and the Donaueschingen festival.

Garman said the emissions performance standards (EPS) had been championed by the Conservative party in opposition, as part of its policies to address climate change.

The recently proposed h index [16] is a new measure of research performance that has been heavily championed by Nature [17] and Science [18].

Ibsen was championed by writers such as George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Hardy, who campaigned for the single London performance of his play Ghosts in 1891.

Also championed by the London Critics' Circle was Philomena, with Judi Dench nominated for her performance as Philomena Lee, who searches for her long-lost son.

Though championed by Maria Callas in the 50s and Montserrat Caballé a generation later, performances are still rare.

But the union is vehemently opposed to a merit pay plan championed by Mayor Giuliani, which would raise the salaries of only those teachers whose students' performance improved.

By the late 1950s Rickles's act was being championed by such celebrities as Frank Sinatra, whom Rickles had notoriously mocked to his face at a 1957 nightclub performance.

The strategy had been championed by Dauman, Viacom's chief executive, who has been under pressure to improve the media company's performance.