Sentences with phrase «unlikely champion»

This time last year Leicester City were on their way to becoming the most unlikely champions in English Premier league history, a remarkable feat that reverberated around the globe.

The four games to be shown across the opening weekend have got our mouths watering already, with unlikely champions Leicester City kicking us off against newly - promoted Hull City.

Arsenal's inability to capitalise on the failure of the major rivals and overhaul unlikely champions Leicester City eventually cost them their title tilt, of course, while the club also failed to build on previous successes by adding another major trophy.

Euro 2016 came to a conclusion last night as Portugal were crowned unlikely champions with their extra-time victory over devastated hosts France.

As we will see in the next section, it is this latter sentiment that some in the Labour party have woken up to, leading conservatism to find some seemingly unlikely champions on the left.

As a Republican and a former prosecutor, Garrett might seem like an unlikely champion for marijuana reform.

The Hollywood star and former politican Arnold Schwarzenegger emerged as an unlikely champion of the Meat Free Monday cause last week, after he endorsed eating less meat as a key way of protecting the environment.

At this rate, will the hitman be able to score the goals to help Leicester secure an unlikely Champions League qualification?

The ITV Football pundit was speaking after Arsenal's 3 - 1 defeat in Barcelona ended their hopes of an unlikely Champions League comeback, having lost 2 - 0 at the Emirates in the first leg.

But a Republican senator from Illinois ordinarily would be an unlikely champion for the cause.

The FBI's public dispute with Apple while attempting to force the decryption of the San Bernadino killer's device brought the issue to the fore in 2015, with the technology giant becoming an unlikely champion of customer privacy.

Gripping a can of lager and muttering darkly about the foreigners on the east side of town, Pete Johnson makes an unlikely champion for electoral reform.

Scientists who want to save the coelacanth are pinning their hopes on what many see as an unlikely champion, the World Bank.

When a malfunctioning alien spaceship strands over a million of its inhabitants on Earth, they find an unlikely champion in the shape of a previously self serving weapons manufacturer exec who starts to metamorphose into one of them after exposure to an unknown chemical.

Woody Harrelson stars as publishing maverick Larry Flynt, who becomes the unlikely champion of the First Amendment when he takes his fight against the Rev. Jerry Falwell all the way to the Supreme...

When infertility threatens mankind with extinction, a disillusioned bureaucrat becomes the unlikely champion in the fight for the survival of Earth's population.

Jailed for drunkenly beheading parking meters, he becomes the prisoners» unlikely champion and cause for hope.

The Clive Owen - starring dystopian thriller, set in a world in which humankind has become infertile, sees Theo Faron (Owen) become an unlikely champion of civilization when he's recruited by his former lover (Julianne Moore) to escort a young, pregnant woman (Clare - Hope Ashitey) to safety, risking everything to protect the miracle that the entire world has been hoping for.

Actor Richard Dreyfuss seems an unlikely champion for civic education, but as he demonstrates in this TEDx talk, he's passionate about making young people into active and informed citizens.

Lewis Ferebee may seem like an unlikely champion of charter schools.

Luckily, Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, a recent exile from London, who also loves scouring the beaches.

When a series of grisly crimes pushes an unlikely champion to seek the truth, a mystery unfolds that could completely destroy everything he holds dear.»

More than a decade ago, California's climate crusade was launched by a man whom many considered an unlikely champion for a liberal cause — Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The struggling Mills Corp. has found an unlikely champion in Chaim Katzman, the outgoing CEO of shopping center REIT Equity One Inc..