Sentences with phrase «described champions of»

Not exact matches

One thing you won't hear him championing is the unfettered rise of artificial intelligence, which he once described as the «biggest existential threat» to humankind.

A female colleague once described him as «incredibly aggressively competitive, in a kind of... high - school debate champion kind of way.»

The process is actually quite easy to describe, and the fact that it caught nearly the entire community of analysts by surprise should indicate just how unfamiliar economists are with the approach championed by Minsky.

Just hours before Mr. Trump spoke, China's premier, Li Keqiang, stood alongside Ms. Merkel, and used careful words as he described China as a champion of the accord.

The series comes to a dramatic end with a fictional letter, written as though from St Petersburg, in which Chesterton's alter ego, «Guy Crawford», describes himself as joining a rebellious mob in which he recognises an obviously Jewish student called Emmanuel, and as springing to his defence, sword in hand, as the Czarist troops attack: but Emmanuel sustains a fatal blow and dies in the street, «a champion of justice, like thousands who have fallen for it in the dark records of this dark land».

They are surprised because, as a self - described «liberated woman» who champions women in church leadership and an egalitarian interpretation of Scripture, I don't fit the perceived mold for the submissive wife.

He championed pursuit of holiness through spiritual disciplines, typically describing the Christian's goal as «perfect love.»

Other groups were the Scotists using the works of the philosopher Duns Scotus, championed by the Franciscans; the Thomists using the texts of Thomas Aquinas, championed by the Dominicans — Aquinas had worked philosophy and religion into a great single Summa, transposing Aristotle into the context of Christian theology under the influence of Augustine and Bernard, in which fides quaerens intellectum, faith seeking understanding, was integrated organically with philosophy; finally there was also a via antiqua, the ancient way, which was centred on Plato, but was also used to describe the Thomists.

In describing her approach to cuisine, Leah said «We are champions of the Local Artisan Food Movement and believe by buying local and supporting our neighbors, we create conviviality, loyalty & community.

In the Metro report about Ferdinand's comments Welbeck is described as our secret weapon and the former England and Man United star spoke about how Welbeck was often at his best in big games and produced some of his best games for United against Real Madrid and Bayern Munich in the Champions League.

After the 1985 season, Rader was hired to be the Chicago White Sox third base coach under La Russa (despite the fact that it had been Rader who had described the play of La Russa's division - champion Chisox in 1983 as «winning ugly»).

Still, even with Sevilla set to play in the Champions League after their triumph in Europe, Bacca could be tempted by a move to a bigger club, though Liverpool's chances of signing him are described as slim after they missed out on a top four place in the Premier League.

Bang average could be the term used to describe the Spanish champions, in fact, who also lost their weekend La Liga game to Catalan minnows Girona at the weekend and are already a massive eight points behind Barcelona this season, so this is not the all - conquering Madrid of the last two seasons.

McIlroy may not be «delusional,» as Paul Azinger described Woods» reaction to his game after the 14 - time major champion posted a 4 - over 76 in the opening round of the 2015 British Open.

The 19 - year - old winger has been described as the «new Cristiano Ronaldo» since becoming the youngest Portuguese goalscorer in the Champions League group stage earlier this season and the Águiaswould want a hefty fee for his services, potentially in the range of # 45million.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger described his side's 3 - 1 loss to Monaco in the first leg of their Champions League last - 16 tie on Wednesday as a «horrible night» for the club.

Mauricio Pochettino describes Juventus as «one of the best teams in the world» - but he has every intention of approaching this huge UEFA Champions League Round of 16 first leg on the front foot in Turin.

World indoor 60m hurdles champion describes his delight at securing success back in the place which provided so many of his early athletics memories

Jan Mulder, former European champion with Ajax in 1970s and a well - known Dutch columnist, described Vidal being «faster than light» while talking about one of his goals against Lazio.

Thankfully for a handful of EPL teams domestic play resumes again in earnest after performances in the Champions League that can only be described as abominations.

Describing the first couple of seasons as being the «worst moments of his career», were backed up by the fact that more than a third of games he played in the Champions League winning season were from the subs bench.

In recent years the italian fans have witnessed everything: players going on strike, allegations surrounding corruption, champions stripped of a title then relegated and a national team that can only be described as spectacularly inconsistent.

Conte, though, said he welcomed the pressure of the Champions League stage and the challenge of what he described as «one of the best teams in the world».

Gianluigi Buffon described referee Michael Oliver as having a «trash can» for a heart after awarding a controversial penalty that saw Real Madrid progress to the Champions League semi-finals at the expense of Juventus.

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, is dispatching a Government delegation to represent Ghana at the funeral, in Soweto, South Africa, on Saturday, 14th April, 2018, of the late Winnie Madikizela - Mandela, renowned freedom fighter and champion of women's rights, who has been described by South Africa's President, His Excellency Cyril Ramaphosa, as the «voice of defiance».

In a 22 - minute address, Mr. Johnson described the Council as «the voice for the voiceless, the champions of the most vulnerable,» vowed to back his colleagues — going through all 50 by first name — and ended with a story of coming out to his Irish Catholic grandfather.

Mr. Stringer's campaign described Mr. Spitzer's four - page release as a «non-disclosure disclosure» and called on the former governor to meet the «standard of transparency he once championed» and release his full returns for the past...

Speaking further, Governor Fayose described INEC under the present APC government as the champion of electoral malpractices, saying «INEC, security agencies need to purge themselves of all these putrid behaviours and face the reality of modern day democracy.

«On the very day plans for more than 700 new state schools were axed, Clegg championed AV, a form of voting he once described as a «miserable little compromise»,» the former deputy prime minister wrote on his blog.

Scott Stringer's campaign described Spitzer's four - page release as a «non-disclosure disclosure» and called on the former governor to meet the «standard of transparency he once championed» and release his full returns for the past five years.

The speaker described the workings of a computer program that would soon challenge international champions in the game Go.

Day's leftist politics and her sense of personal activism remained; she established a political journal, «The Catholic Worker,» in association with self - described Christian anarchist Peter Maurin (Martin Sheen), and was a tireless and outspoken champion of the rights of the poor and disenfranchised.

The presentation links to a video clip of a world memory champion describing his technique.

«One of Rachel's classmates described Rachel as «encompassing all that Dean Ryan championed this year» with regard to fulfilling the promise of diversity,» says McLaughlin.

The only force standing in their way is the teachers union — «the champions of equity,» who «define solutions that drive excellence and success for all students,» as described by former NEA president Dennis Van Roekel in his keynote address to the Representative Assembly in July 2014.

Both teachers described their instructional approach as being student centered, emphasizing classroom community and student interaction, which are hallmarks of the powerful social studies teaching championed by the National Council for the Social Studies (2008).

The Ofsted chief inspector has been a champion of the controversial 14 to 19 vocational institutions during his tenure, but said consistency in their performance was missing and described their track record as «patchy» in a speech this morning.

But then she describes the awards Ravitch has received as one of the «leaders in the public arena who champion the use of informed judgment to advance the public good.»

The district describes itself as «a champion for every child and is committed to educating the whole child, offering families a portfolio of rich options and programs to ensure all students have the support they need to achieve their potential and dreams.»

In an article last August, I performed the cross-reference just described between the Dividend Champions and the stocks in a variety of smart - beta ETFs.

Rory Sutherland, the vice-chairman of Ogilvy Group UK is a self - described «champion of the application of behavioral economics in advertising.»

The first is better described as an obvious champion — you'd know it, if I told you — but it's one of those curious stocks / sectors where investors will invariably refuse to award a multiple appropriate to its current / historic fundamentals & performance, let alone its unique competitive advantage.

Valentino Rossi The Game is perhaps best described as being MotoGP 16 with tons of extra content which revolve around the career of the hugely successful 9 time world champion Valentino Rossi.

Tom Sachs, described by Emma Allen for the New Yorkeras a «mix of mad scientist, obsessive tinkerer, cult guru, taskmaster general, starry - eyed theoretician, and workout champion,» is an original advocate of bricolage, or DIY, and one of today's most inspiring and influential sculptors.

Contemporary artist Ai Weiwei, an early and enthusiastic champion of Ren Hang's images, describes their meaning as something uniquely Chinese: «[Ren Hang's] works interpreted sex in a Chinese way, which contained a sense of loss and sorrow.

She won critical praise equally from the Chicago Tribune's conservative Eleanor Jewett and from Bulliet, a staunch champion of modernism, who described Barton as a defiant individualist: «blunt and outspoken, she tears down the curtains of shams — she's as «primitive» and «barbaric» in her emotions as in her color lusts.»

The art historian Leo Steinberg, one of the artist's early champions, has described the reaction of a well - known painter who visited the gallery: «If this is painting,» he said, «I might as well give up.»

Esteemed for both her solo artistic production and her maverick efforts to champion creative forms that are «vulnerable due to institutional neglect, their ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content,» she has been described by New York Times critic Holland Cotter as one of «the half - dozen most important people for art in downtown Manhattan in the 1970s.»

A review of European press coverage of Japan's crisis by the magazine summarizes a Czech piece describing Europe as «the world champion of hysteria around nuclear power» and criticizing leaders there for «surfing on a wave of emotions» disconnected from sober analysis of relative risks.

Writing in The Australian newspaper in July, Newman described the science of human - caused climate change as a «smokescreen» for «vested interests» and criticised US President Barack Obama for continuing to «champion discredited research».