Sentences with phrase «early champion»

Just in time for Women's History Month, three new books provide in - depth looks at a few of the courageous, far - sighted women who served as early champions of change.

Although it is nice for Arsenal fans to be treated to a couple of early Champions League games, I really believe that it will make Arsenal's transfer window so much easier.

Pep Guardiola's Manchester City did not hit the heights expected of them last season as they finished third and suffered a relatively early Champions League exit.

«These would seem to be dark days for the school - choice movement, as several early champions of choice have publicly expressed their disillusionment.

Although Andrew Keen has long been involved with Silicon Valley, he has a big problem with the sunny predictions made by early champions of the Internet.

Real and would - be power brokers still pepper the art world, but no one today wields such influence as Stella's early champions did.

⁵ Nonetheless, an almost infallible visual intelligence underpins his work — as Judd, his most perceptive and committed early champion, convincingly argued — and is at its most acute in the best of his metal and foam sculptures.

At the time, the art critic Clement Greenberg, Pollock's great early champion, was arguing not only that the future of «progressive» art lay in abstraction, but also that Pollock himself embodied that future.

Yet among the patriarchal New York School, the young Rauschenberg found one of his greatest and earliest champions in Jack Tworkov.

And as the science began showing us how real sharks behave, it spurred a worldwide conservation effort whose earliest champion was Jaws author Peter Benchley.

Profiles key exhibitions by pioneering curators including Okwui Enwezor, Linda Nochlin, Jean - Hubert Martin and Nan Goldin, with a foreword by Lucy Lippard, internationally known art critic, activist and curator, and early champion of feminist art, this volume is both an invaluable source of practical information for those who understand that institutions must be a driving force in this area and a vital source of inspiration for today's expanding new generation of curators.

Manchester City's early Champions League exit could be the cue for # 150m - worth of players, including Yaya Toure, Samir Nasri and Edin Dzeko, to head out of the club in the summer --(Daily Mirror)

But he was once seen as an early champion of the little guy.

Over 50 years ago, one of the earliest champions of brainstorming, Alex Osborn, a U.S. advertising executive, developed rules for the practice — such as banning criticism and encouraging freewheeling — which he published in his 1953 book Applied Imagination.

Dave Peck was an early champion of influencer and social media marketing who has been active in online communities for more than a decade.

Ms. Greenberg, Addyi's early champion, remains unbowed.

Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce Board Chair Christian Johannsen, owner of a Foot Solutions franchise on West Broadway, was one of the early champions of unification, and said he looks forward to participating on the Vancouver Board of Trade's Small Business Council.

It has been a painful time as we agonise over the mistakes made against Monaco that leave us teetering on the brink of yet another early Champions League exit.

And at least we do not have the problem of the early Champions League play off double header to worry about.

After Arsenal survived an early Champions League blow thanks to some last ditch defending, a few moments of magic from the second choice keeper David Ospina and some profligacy in front of goal from Edinson Cavani and Angel Di Maria, the Paris Saint - Germain fans were left cursing their luck after Alexis Sanchez popped up in the right place to rifle home the rebound from Alex Iwobi's shot in the final 12 minutes of our group game.

Another early Champions League exit has also got people questioning what Arsene Wenger needs to do to get the improvement we all want.

After Liverpool knocked them out of the EFL cup recently and with their stuttering form in Europe leaving them staring at an early Champions League exit, the Premier League will be in even greater focus, so an Arsenal victory this weekend will be a huge blow to them.

No trophies is a big disappointment, for sure, as is an early Champions League exit, but on the face of it, if City finish second they are still doing alright in their ongoing journey to establish themselves as a top club, which certainly doesn't happen overnight, billions spent on new players or not.

Even the disappointment of an early Champions League exit did not dampen the mood or affect our desire and determination too much this week.

Right now all of us Arsenal fans are feeling a bit down - hearted as we are on the verge of an early Champions League exit and have slipped a bit in the Premier League, taking just two points from a possible nine and being overtaken by Man United and Leicester.

As reported earlier by Express Sport, Jose Mourinho has highlighted the two stars as priorities following Chelsea's early Champions League exit at the hands of Paris Saint - Germain.

Manchester United take on Tottenham in the semi-finals of the FA Cup on Saturday (5.15 pm) and Jose Mourinho will be hoping to salvage something from the season after an early Champions League exit to Sevilla and shock Carabao Cup defeat to Bristol City.

With just one win in ten in all competitions for Maurcio Pochettino's side, Tottenham's season was starting to look in danger of not living up to its promise — especially with their early Champions League exit recently.

Another year, another early Champions League exit for Paris St Germain.

We had particularly high hopes on our taxi legislation (Miller had been an early champion on this issue) and were told that the Speaker and Margarita Lopez had reached an «agreement» that we would be «happy» with.

But we always believed it was the right thing to do for patient and employee safety,» says Dr. Weinmann, who leads the health system's immunization task force and was an early champion of the mandatory policy.

For a distinguished 57 - year career — as a founder of modern cell biology and the field of chromosome structure and function; bold experimentalist; inventor of in situ hybridization; and early champion of women in science.

We turned to celebrity nutritionist Kimberly Snyder (an early champion of the ingredient) to fill us on all the awesomeness that is coconut oil.

Goldman was among the first buyers for Thakoon, Proenza Schouler and Prabal Gurung, and an early champion of Rick Owens and Nina Ricci's Peter Copping.

Sarah Mower of US Vogue was an early champion.

Carmel Snow, the editor of Harper's Bazaar was an early champion of his designs.

Whilst remaining true to his aesthetic, he has published stories everywhere, from Italian Vogue, where Sozzani was an early champion, to the edgy London style bible i - D.

Ebert had been an early champion of Bahrani» s work, and when I spoke with the filmmaker on April 8 2013, it was just after Ebert» s death, and my first question to him.

Paulson will be Dorothy Olding, Salinger's lifelong literary agent and one of his earliest champions.

Ebert had been an early champion of Bahrani» s work, and when I spoke with the filmmaker on April 8 2013, it was just after Ebert» s death, and my first... Read More»

Lerner said that SXSW film head Janet Pierson was an early champion of «The Automatic Hate» and that, after taking his feature debut to Toronto, it's refreshing to attend a festival like South By, where a little American indie is front - and - center.

Bill Clinton was an early champion, and George W. Bush and Barack Obama spoke favorably about charters and supported the federal program that provides funds to start new charter schools.

He was an early champion of the new system.

Early champions of this novel, first in a seven - book series, include Ali Smith and the actor Andy Serkis, who has already optioned the film rights.

Early champions of the novel include Ali Smith and the actor Andy Serkis, who has already optioned the film rights.

Recognized for being the first no - kill, cageless animal shelter and proud recipient of an award for outstanding work by a humane organization issued by the Chicago Veterinary Medical Association, The A.A. F. is named after St. Francis of Assisi, known as the early champion of animals.

Can a hero not only claim fame and glory in the tournament, but also rid the city of these horrors?Champions of Zulula: Elite Edition is an expanded version of OSP's earlier Champions of Zulula.

Although known for his early championing of the Abstract Expressionists, he befriended a younger generation of artists that reacted against the rhetoric of gestural abstraction, the leading style of Tenth Street.

Mies Van Der Rohe was an early champion, and her work soon drew the eye of leading curators Katherine Kuh and Carl Schniewind of the Art Institute of Chicago, where Statsinger had two solo exhibitions in the 1950s.

In addition to being early champions of artists such as Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Christopher Wool and Anselm Kiefer, the Spiegels amassed works by the likes of Andy Warhol, Man Ray, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman and Francis Picabia.