Since last month's atrocities in Toulouse, President Nicolas Sarkozy has improved his poll ratings a bit, pandering to xenophobes and Islamophobes and posturing as a security champion.
Global food security champion Prof Tim Benton said that even tiny changes in crop prices could have a big impact when it came to buying food.
CEOs of major mainstream companies, from the controversial Whole Foods CEO John Mackey to the cyber security champion McAfee's CEO David DeWalt blogged away on the inner workings of their industry to the outer world.
The founders were also privacy and security champions, pushing to roll e2e encryption right across the platform — even after selling their app to the adtech giant in 2014.
With leadership from these food and nutrition security champions, Congress must pass legislation that would authorize Feed the Future, the critical U.S. government program for global food and nutrition security.
Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas), chairman of the subcommittee that oversees Social Security, championed the rule's Social Security provision and said shifting the funds would constitute a "raid" on retirement insurance, which is solvent until 2033.
One brushed shoulders with Claude Pepper, crusty defender of social security, Don Edwards, champion of civil liberties, Wright Patman, scourge of high interest rates, and Barbara Jordan, unbending defender of the constitution.
Republicans leaders, enthralled by the latest Star Wars concept and searching for a security issue to champion in the coming election, have embarked on a destructive campaign to dismantle the arms control work of the last six presidents, including four Republicans -- Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George Bush.
As national security adviser she championed the war in Iraq, arguing that the United States knew there were weapons of mass destruction, which were never found.
It has been at the center of a post-9/11 legal and political shakeup in Canada that has pitted security advocates against champions of civil liberties.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, has championed his role as a negotiator, as has Yelena Bonner, the widow of the Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov.
