Sentence examples for supposed champion from inspiring English sources

A hint of what is most likely to come can be seen most clearly in the United States, the supposed champion of the free market economy.

But examine his actions and the supposed champion of localism – empowering communities – is revealed as no more than a petty dictator.

Meanwhile Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP, head of the intelligence and security committee and supposed champion of citizens against state intrusion, positively grovelled towards GCHQ.

It is that Mr McConnell, the supposed champion of anti-reform, is in fact a quiet reformer.Mr McConnell may defend political spending as speech, and rail against "the absurd notion that somehow we are speaking too much".

The broader argument-from-uncertainty is less implausible than the direct comparison of embryo to an acorn, but for a supposed champion of enlightenment the combination is still a strange one.

Move too early, and they find themselves facing a firing squad, fleeing into exile or, in more sedate countries, being snubbed in the parliamentary tea rooms and excluded from the membership of select committees, with their supposed champion immortalised as the wielder of a banana rather than of power.

But show "ordinary people" that their supposed champions have taken them for fools and you have a chance of breaking through.

They have formed an alliance known as the G7, which embraces seven supposed champions, whose main aim, it seems, is to stop the prime minister, Raila Odinga, from becoming president.

The Republican establishment, presumably allied with the rich and privileged, embraces its populist core of hard-edged activists, while the Democratic elite, supposed champions of "the people," evidently fears them.

Most of the action takes place in a spacious ground-floor apartment in Rome where four supposed champions of the radical working class erect a screen of quiet bourgeois domesticity to camouflage their crime.

(Feminists, it should be noted, are also the only ones I see defending LaBeouf. The scant response from "men's rights activists", supposed champions of male victims, seems to mainly revolve around how effeminate LaBeouf is for not fighting his attacker hard enough).