Sentence examples for important champion from inspiring English sources

For one thing, the project has found an important champion: Matteo Renzi, Florence's energetic young mayor since 2009.

In response, Bertrand Russell, an important champion, declared Popper's work to be "a vigorous and profound defence of democracy, timely, interesting and very well written".

Born in 1878, the irascible and impassioned Schreker was an important champion of modern music who, among many achievements, conducted the premiere of Schoenberg's formidable "Gurrelieder" in 1913.

In another picture, the white-haired figure on the roadside next to Friedlander's tripod is the late John Swarkowski, his first, and most important, champion.

In America, he's a consummate party-giver, but in Italy he's an important champion of Anglophone writers and filmmakers, largely through his interviews for the Italian daily La Repubblica.

But, he said, "every time I went to lunch with a Little, Brown editor, I'd hear, 'Oh, you're the agent for 'The Lovely Bones.' We love that book.' " Soon after Ms. Sebold delivered the manuscript in February 2001, the novel won an important champion -- the sales director, Chris Barba, "a reader with a lot of influence," said Michael Pietsch, publisher of Little, Brown.

Mr. Frank has been celebrated as one of the industry's most important champions in Washington.

The most important, championed by my colleague Rick Hertzberg, is a movement to ensure that no President is ever again elected without winning the national popular vote.

Mr. Bernstein, who will start spending time at Lincoln Center in September and takes over in late January, had some important champions, including Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

Now, it matters not a jot how much it makes my toes curl, of course, since Glass's symphonies have important champions, such as conductors Dennis Russell Davies and Marin Alsop, as well as John Adams, who conducted the Ninth earlier this year.

The book was far from a commercial success — it took two years for the edition of five hundred copies to sell out — but it was widely reviewed, and gained Thomas some important champions.