Sentences with phrase «great champions of women»

After tragic news of Prince's death on Thursday, women artists paid their respects on social media and Slate explored his history of collaboration with women, calling Prince «one of music's great champions of women.»

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The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Women's Leadership Circle is excited to launch its second annual Wendy McDonald Awards in an effort to increase the profile of outstanding women and champions of women in our commuWomen's Leadership Circle is excited to launch its second annual Wendy McDonald Awards in an effort to increase the profile of outstanding women and champions of women in our commuwomen and champions of women in our commuwomen in our community.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Women's Leadership Circle is excited to launch its fourth annual Wendy McDonald Diversity Awards to increase the profile of outstanding women and champions of women in our commuWomen's Leadership Circle is excited to launch its fourth annual Wendy McDonald Diversity Awards to increase the profile of outstanding women and champions of women in our commuwomen and champions of women in our commuwomen in our community.

We Christians of the Third Millennium, guided by the Second Vatican Council and its great champions John Paul and Benedict, are graced to be witnessing a return of the papacy and episcopacy to the model of the age of the Fathers: boldly evangelical, passionately committed to mission, and with true humility inviting the men and women of our time to consider the proposal that truth is to be found in the person of Jesus Christ.

Their Sylvia Pankhursts were their great golfers who could not fail to be imitated by other women and to be admired by the men: Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, a Scots girl, who (circa 1910) won the Scottish, British, Canadian and American championships; Cecil Leitch, the first woman who decided that there was no reason a woman shouldn't attack the ball forcefully like the best men players, and who did so with such a natural dash; the incomparable Joyce Wethered, who succeeded Miss Leitch after World War I as the queen of the British links and is remembered as the most consummate of women stylists; Glenna Collett, the pertinacious girl from Providence, the first great American champion, who won our national title six times between 1922 and 1935, and in more recent years such superb players as Patty Berg and the majestic Babe Didrikson Zaharias who «made» women's professional golf after she had become in 1947 the first American to win the British Ladies Championship.

And in London there was no sign of what was to come as Great Britain's women's hockey team finished fifth of six sides at the Champions Trophy, while the men finished fourth.

In the women's 800m, Brenda Martinez got some great scalps as she ran 1:58.84 to beat Lynsey Sharp — the Briton just missing her PB with 1.58.94 — together with Commonwealth gold medallist Eunice Sum of Kenya and European champion Marima Arzamasova of Belarus.

Big Show with Shane McMahon vs. The Rock with Vince McMahon vs. Cactus Jack with Linda McMahon vs. Triple H with Stephanie McMahon (one of the women's greatest, WWE Womens Champion matches ever - She was currently women's champion).

Basic Instinct was championed by feminist critic Camille Paglia, who argued that it features «one of the great performances by a woman in screen history.»

Django Jane is Monáe's rallying cry, a rebellious protest anthem for women in general («We gave you life, we gave you birth, we gave you God, we gave you earth,» she sings; a recent favourite book is The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjöo, the Swedish proponent of the Goddess movement, which champions female deities) and for African - American women in particular («Black girl magic, y ’ all can't stand it»).

While some of these women worked for the greater good as champions of many worthy causes, others were outstanding by virtue of their struggle to succeed as individuals and professionals, on their own merits in a man's world.

Those of us in the No Kill movement will anxiously watch to see whether this video is a harbinger of even greater things to come, and whether the woman who was once one of our fiercest and most stalwart opponents becomes one of our greatest champions.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NWMA)-- the only major museum in the world solely dedicated to championing great women artists — announces the return of the popular # 5WomenArtists social media campaign in March for Women's History MWomen in the Arts (NWMA)-- the only major museum in the world solely dedicated to championing great women artists — announces the return of the popular # 5WomenArtists social media campaign in March for Women's History Mwomen artists — announces the return of the popular # 5WomenArtists social media campaign in March for Women's History MWomen's History Month.

students worked with The Woman's Fund of Miami - Dade County, a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of local women and girls; the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a community organization championing the rights of Florida migrant farm workers; the ACLU of Florida; Legal Services of Greater Miami, which provides civil legal services for the poor in Miami - Dade and Monroe County; the Community Justice Project, a nonprofit organization comprised of community lawyers who collaborate with community organizers and low - income communities of color; Catholic Charities Legal Services, which provides immigration services to South Florida's refugee and immigrant community; and Catalyst Miami, an anti-poverty non-profit.