Sentence examples for fought the corner from inspiring English sources
But his role as a champion of the arts extends beyond the South Bank: only last month he fought the corner of regional theatres, warning they were in "clear and present" financial danger.
I enjoyed The No 219 Sodcast Project, where poet Ian McMillan fought the corner of kids who play music on their mobile phones on the bus (though the term "sodcasters" is terrible).
He battled against the censorship of the erotic novel Fanny Hill and the film Last Tango in Paris, fought the corner of the man who stole a portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery, and made the case for the art forger Tom Keating.
In the 1960s she acted as counsel for the Algerian National Liberation Front and represented Algerian militants seeking to end French rule; in Spain she pleaded for Basque separatists; and she fought the corner of four leftwing militants who had acted to overthrow the government of President Marien N'Gouabi in the Congo.
However, talking backstage, Arquette appeared to urge oppressed groups to fight the corner of older women being underpaid.
Back in November, Mrs Sting told Pandora she'd be going to fight the corner of the world's rainforest inhabitants.
The new economy secretary would "fight the corner" for all businesses in trouble, she said, and reinforce the strengths of the economy.
Someone will need to fight the corner for schools and children, and the whole of Michael Wilshaw's career has been spent doing just that.
Earlier in 2000, I'd set up Popjustice, a blog that I hoped would fight the corner for decent pop music.
Speaking to an audience of senior cultural figures at the British Museum, she will pledge to "fight the corner" for the arts as hard as possible with the Treasury in the runup to the coming spending review.
The home secretary has abjectly failed to fight the corner of the police in these spending review negotiations and it will fall to the Labour party to stand up for the law-abiding public against these reckless cuts.
