Sentences with phrase «first champions of»

When asked how it feels to be the first Champions of the Cause Award winner, she replied, «I'm beyond honored to be the first award winner.»

They were the first champions of my cooking, eating anything I made and telling me it was good.

I applaud all efforts by people to take on this issue and especially be Adeo who — let's be honest — was really the first champion of trying to make the VC world more transparent by launching TheFunded, which didn't exactly endear him to VCs initially.

The first champion of EVO 2016 is Choi «Saint» Jinwoo of Korea.

Belonging to the generation that produced Abstract Expressionism (he was arguably the first champion of Jackson Pollock), Greenberg saw in that artist's personal tragedy a metaphor for the disasters of American life and art, in which people were alienated from real culture, were being forced to live off kitsch culture («one of faked sensations»... «because it was turned out mechanically») and he was resigned to the fact that at the other extreme, the so called avant - garde had taken off in another direction which was producing art for art's sake for themselves and the cultural elite.

Not exact matches

First ladies often pick areas of policy to champion — and Bush chose literacy.

What he means is, Pixar's ballyhooed Braintrust idea meetings boast a mixture of champion storytellers like John Lasseter, the director of the first two Toy Story films — and a whole bunch of employees unafraid to challenge him, even though he's the John Lasseter.

Questions swirled around Wheeler's lobbying past when he was first given the job last year; will anyone trust him now after his wrong - headed (and bull - headed) championing of a potentially devastating policy?

The last of the year's four tennis Grand Slam tournaments crowns its champions this weekend and women's favorite Serena Williams is looking to make history by becoming the first woman to win all four Grand Slam events in the same calendar year since Steffi Graf in 1988.

Just 25 years old, Salah still has plenty of room to grow, but has been nothing short of astounding for Liverpool this year, and entered the first leg of the Champions League semifinal against Roma in the best form of his career.

The big players are divided between two camps: The first camp is Netflix and Amazon Prime, which release original content in series or clusters of episodes (a model championed by Netflix and later adopted by Amazon).

President Donald Trump is considering a full, posthumous pardon for Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion, who was convicted of racially tinged federal morals charges more than a century ago.

After 1995, Chanu is the first world champion from India who has broken all the records after two decades of wait.

Just as importantly, his work on the distribution of electricity led to the world's first power plant in New York City (though his technology choice, direct current (DC), was eventually surpassed by the alternating current approach (AC) championed by rival inventor, Nikola Tesla).

While Biles easily captured the gold in vault, things also didn't go as well for the men's all - around champion, Kohei Uchimura, who stepped out of bounds on his first tumbling run.

Ann is known for her debate skills (she placed first in the National Tournament of Champions and second in the State of California in high school) and was part of a five - person team at Yale that competed in the Robocup Competition in Paris, France.

That Jared Goff will have Sean McVay (the likely coach of the year), Todd Gurley (an MVP candidate), and an elite defense around him should make his first playoff game a bit easier, even against the reigning NFC champions.

BERLIN — Despite bitter opposition in many quarters to the austerity - first policies Germany has imposed on Europe's poorer nations, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has hung on to its role as champion of integration on the Continent through deft use of diplomacy and the country's economic clout.

Recently, AlphaGo became the first program to defeat a world champion in the game of Go.

It will be such a relief to find proof that nice guys of either gender finish first, not last — that the values you hold dear are of value in the business world too — and that not only can you champion earth - centered eco-friendly business practices, but that you can profit handsomely by doing so.

S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in March for championing Kentucky Bourbon at the federal level, including passage of the first decrease of the federal tax on spirits in generations.

A. First, you need a senior champion who understands the importance of uncovering opportunities and the strategic value of buyer personas, and will make sure tools get built to help sales and marketing execute on the insights.

In a partnership hoped to be the first of many similar agreements, the companies seek to create a «country champions» system to compete with Uber's singular global growth.

Since the creation of Canada's first Executive MBA in 1968, the Beedie School of Business has championed lifelong learning, productive change and the need to be innovative as we deliver research and teaching that makes an impact.

Digital - first champions, like Salt Lake City's Deseret Digital Media, drive 30 percent of their traffic from social.

Ever since Ron Paul first introduced it in 2009, the «Federal Reserve Transparency» Act, calling for the elimination of the Federal Reserve System's exemption from certain kinds of GAO audits, has been the subject of vigorous debate between proponents of greater government accountability and champions of an independent Federal Reserve.

As a developer of world class supercomputers, it was also the creator of Deep Blue, the first AI system that was able to defeat a reigning chess champion.

Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.

A long - standing subscriber and champion of First Things, she gets in the mail this letter asking her to become acquainted with the journal.

Just wondering why someone who is trying to champion their version of etiquette would stoop to be so condescending in the first place... oh right... because you are a hypocrit... get stuffed.

In this work we were guided by two senior theologians, Dr. J. I. Packer, an irenic champion of unitive evangelicalism, and Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J., the first U.S. - born theologian to be made a Catholic cardinal without having served as a bishop.

Meanwhile, and it may be a very long meanwhile, the United States must be, and must be seen to be, the uncompromising champion of human rights, including the first and the font of all rights, which is religious freedom.

His political biography shows the nature of his alignments: social disillusionment with both capitalism and Marxism; embracement of pacifism, and then the abandonment of it during the rise of American isolationism and European fascism in the 1930s; the championing of U.S. intervention in World War II and a cold war stratagem to contain Soviet power; and indictment of the pretensions of American messianism and scientism when the U.S. first intervened militarily in Viet Nam under John F. Kennedy.

Olympics national champion, who overcame several obstacles to not only succeed in boxing, but to be the first member of his family to graduate from high school.

The first Pope to come from beyond Europe and the Mediterranean basin promised to be the champion of those who lived in the parts of the earth where hunger, injustice and persecution abounded.

To pick one of many examples, James Burrill Angell, president of the University of Michigan from 1871 to 1909, was one of the first lay presidents of an American university and pivotal in making Michigan for a time the academic champions of the West.

The people who speak most often about the sanctity of human life should have been the very first to champion the right of people with AIDS to adequate healthcare rather than lobbying against government expenditure for AIDS research, as did the Moral Majority.

It was Abu Talib, the leader of the Hashimids, who cared for Muhammad in his youth; his son, Ali, one of the first converts to Islam, married Muhammad's daughter, Fatimah, and was one of the stalwart champions of Islam.

W.A. Criswell was the champion of Southern Baptist conservatives and for nearly fifty years pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, which for many years was the largest single congregation in America and the biggest Baptist church in the world.

I remember when Champions was first built in the seventies and at that time it seemed so far out for a round of golf.

Promotions by Heineken include the first ever truly global Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League Trophy Tour.

He is president of the World Pizza Champions; the first and only Triple Crown winner for baking at the International Pizza Championships in Lecce, Italy; and, his most prestigious title to date, the 2007 World Champion Pizza Maker at the World Pizza Cup in Naples, Italy, where he was the first American and non-Neapolitan victor.

To support these efforts, Kellogg was one of the first U.S. - based companies to join Champions 12.3 and to become a U.S. Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champion.

Then, in 1974, Neal Peterson — a student studying plant genetics, now one of the foremost champions of the pawpaw — had his first taste of the fruit in Morgantown, W.Va.

Consistent with the second step of the approach endorsed by Champions 12.3, this summer we partnered with the World Resources Institute to launch the first ever global standard for the measurement of food loss and waste (FLW).

Hanoch Bar Shalom, one of the first and greatest champions of using the freshest local ingredients found in Israel, has died.

He is Development Director for WRAP - a UK charity, at the forefront of the circular economy - thought leaders, champions of action and catalysts for change.Richard joined WRAP in 2004, leading the team that created and delivered the innovative the Courtauld Commitment - the first agreement of its kind between WRAP and UK supermarket retailers committed to an ambitious and collaborative approach to packaging and food waste reduction.

The producer of this champion Chardonnay, Isabel Estate Vineyard, is a pioneering winery in Marlborough and planted their first vineyards in 1980.

In that now - vanished mining community, young Fabian Garcia made his first mark, as «the champion marble player of the vicinity.»

«They are tremendous champions for our brand and will be one of the first franchise owners to introduce fast - casual diners to our new restaurant prototype.»