Sentences with phrase «national champions for»

Notre Dame has been consistently one of the top programs in college soccer over the past several seasons, especially the year the program was crowned national champions for the first time at then - PPL Park back in 2013.

Jameis Winston's late touchdown toss to Kelvin Benjamin made Florida State national champions for the first time since 1999.

First, I released the annual Blue - Chip Ratio piece, showing which teams have met the minimum recruiting standard of national champions for the last decade - plus.

Villanova is college basketball's national champion for the second time in three years.

«Governor Cuomo has been a national champion for the LGBTQ community, with a proven track record of increasing much - needed protections and advancing equality for all New Yorkers,» said HRC President Chad Griffin.

«Governor Cuomo has been a national champion for the LGBTQ community, with a proven track record of increasing much - needed protections and advancing equality for all New Yorkers,» Chad Griffin, HRC's president, said in a statement.

Not exact matches

Khodorkovsky was arrested and jailed for tax fraud, and Yukos was seized and sold to Rosneft for a song, making it the de facto national champion.

When the news broke late on Wednesday in Moscow, Russian and western media trumpeted it as the energy deal of the year: Glencore (glncy), the world's biggest commodities house, and the Qatar Investment Authority had agreed to buy a 19.5 % stake in Rosneft, Russia's national oil champion, for 10.5 billion euros ($ 11.1 billion).

Newman, who had the backing of an array of national abortion - rights groups and two members of Illinois» congressional delegation, campaigned heavily against her opponent's voting record and promoted herself as a champion of «working families, healthcare for all, and everybody's rights,» she told Business Insider last year.

As China's growth show signs of cooling and the Communist Party prepares for its all - important 19th Congress, a cadre of reformers led by CBRC chairman Guo Shuqing is warning that these swashbuckling global buyers aren't national champions but lightning rods for financial risk.

Operating conditions have proved hostile for some large companies, with the Chinese government aiming to create «national champions» in high - margin and high - tech industries like pharmaceuticals and automobiles.

Any move by France to sell most or all of its Renault stake could prove politically risky for President Emmanuel Macron, already under fire for letting national champions such as TGV train maker Alstom fall into foreign hands.

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.

Murphy, who is a right - wing ideologue, also writes a turgid column for the pro-business National Post, where he rails against environmentalists on global warming, champions the oil sands and pipelines, and protests any effort to fight climate change.

His efforts of championing entrepreneurship are covered in various national media outlets and he has received national awards for his unique concepts.

Boosters at the University of North Carolina — the reigning national basketball champion — require a donation of at least $ 6,000 for the right to buy two season tickets.

The minister who took an axe to the CBC this week, cutting its funding by 10 per cent, unapologetically clung to the idea of being a champion of the arts on Thursday, touting a budget that slashed his own department's operations while shielding the Canada Council for the Arts, national museums and others from funding cuts.

As a champion of the national Startup America initiative and leader of Startup Arkansas, Lee provides the vision and leadership for The Venture Center.

He earned national recognition for championing charters, arguing that competition in the public school system would help «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies,» as he told The New York Daily News in 2014.

CNN: From Kurt Warner's wife to «Christian famous» Brenda Warner used to known for her unflinchingly defense and championing of her superstar husband KurtWarner, former quarterback for the St. Louis Rams and Arizona Cardinals and two - time National Football League MVP.

He championed powers below, which was why his short - lived enthusiasm for National Socialism was not coincidental to his philosophical frame of mind.

I'm a jr national rifle champion, 7 yr Marine Sniper with 3 tours of combat, and a tactical weapons intructor for LEO's.

Christian boxing champion turned politician, Manny Pacquiao has had his proposed bill for a National Bible Day signed into law by the Philippine Senate.

As a friend pointed out to me in an email yesterday, the possibility of defeat for national health - care reform is the fault of its biggest champion.

Mr Norgate's assessment of the legislated monopoly is a poster child for MG: «Within two years of formation, Fonterra had delivered the cost savings and revenue benefits promised and had become a true «national champion» for the New Zealand economy.

ACCC Chairman, speaking at the Australian Farm Institute Conference in Melbourne today, has discussed the implications of competition policy for Australian agriculture, including commenting on the «national champions» argument (expressing the view that promotion of national champions «takes us in the opposite direction to reform that makes markets work better»), the misuse of market power provision and collective bargaining issues.

They also raised issues including divestiture, exclusive dealing (s47), powers to obtain information, documents and evidence (s155) and the unconscionable conduct provisions of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (CCA), and whether there are barriers to the emergence of major Australian agribusiness companies («national champions») of global scale for exporting to international markets.

They also raised other issues including divestiture, exclusive dealing (s47), powers to obtain information, documents and evidence (s155), the unconscionable conduct provisions of the Competition and Consumer Act (CCA), and whether there are barriers to the emergence of major Australian agribusiness companies («national champions») of global scale for exporting to international markets.

Teams of student culinarian members compete in a double elimination, jeopardy - style competition for the chance to become national champions.

Champions 12.3 recommends that every government (national and city) and company set a target for reducing food loss and waste that is aligned with SDG Target 12.3.

And he has signed his favorite driver: Mario Andretti, the national champion who won the 500 for Andy last year.

HONORED — Patricia McCormick, formful national and Olympic diving champion; among six selected for Helms World Trophy Awards as world's foremost amateur athletes for 1955, at Los Angeles.

In November 2008, for instance, when Vanderbilt visited eventual national champion North Carolina for a closed scrimmage, Ezeli turned heads again by aggressively banging bodies with the Tar Heels» heralded frontcourt.

Below, I'm going to present 10 options for determining a national champion.

And by Saturday at dinnertime the last of the verbal battles were raging from the Bluegrass Room to the Julep Lounge, from Gordon's Golden Horse to the Bit»n Spur, and even in that rare unequine setting, the Boom Boom Room, as to which team was going to win the national title: defending champion Cincinnati or its hated foe, the squad that has been ranked No. 1 for two straight seasons, Ohio State?

They beat eventual national champion LSU, 50 - 48, in a game that saw McFadden run for three touchdowns and throw for another.

The Dark Blue ladies dominated the group stages with 5 wins and 0 losses before shutting out their opponents in the knockout stages to be crowned National Champions (an outstanding record of 7 wins, 0 losses, 20 goals for, and 0 against.)

Brissett went throw - for - throw with Jameis Winston two years ago, finishing 32 of 48 for 359 yards and three touchdowns in a 56 — 41 loss to Florida State in 2014 that required a furious second - half comeback on the part of the defending national champions.

The table below, which uses preseason odds from 5Dimes and BetOnline, displays the title odds for the past nine national champions and preseason favorites.

Originally from Switzerland, Martin holds the Swiss national record for the 50m and 100m breaststroke and has been named Swiss national champion on numerous occasions.

A 10 - time national diving champion, he had done his work well and he agreed to an interview with a woman writer from the New China News Agency, who acted as an interpreter for a Western colleague.

She called it a «really humbling experience» to be headed to play for the Sooners, the defending back - to - back national champions.

MILEPOSTS — REINSTATED: HUTOHERSON FLYING QUEENS of Wayland Baptist College, Plain view, Texas, five times national AAU women's basketball champions, when local businessmen agreed to underwrite scholarship and team expenses, after college had disbanded team in January for financial reasons.

The Pacers are gunning for the defending Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat and will have to go through Madison Square Garden on national television in order to build key momentum down the stretch.

I had the Heisman winners memorized going back a decade or two, and I could recite for you national title winners like they were Super Bowl champions.

Shared facts do not extend far beyond Heisman winners and national champions, and even the mythical national champion from a given season is often up for debate.

In the 800 - meter women's finals, the two favorites, current national and defending North American champ Michelle Conroy of St. Paul, Minn. and Peggy Hartrich, former national champion, from St. Louis, Mo., were both disqualified — Conroy for charging, Hartrich for pushing.

You've also got the dream scenario for tournament anarchists: A mid-major national champion.

The national crusade for civil rights, a struggle still incomplete; the rise of student activism, spurred by the Vietnam war; and a couple of violent racial incidents in Ames ripened the atmosphere for the students of Iowa State to champion Trice, who had given his life for the school.

Villanova takes out Arizona and then knocks off North Carolina in a national title game thriller for the second straight year to become college basketball's first repeat champion in a decade.