Sentences with phrase «outspoken champion of»

In this first phase under Faure Walker, Artscribe was distinguished by the lively intelligence of its writing, with a certain range — early content included a long interview with artist R.B. Kitaj (an outspoken champion of figuration) and a sophisticated description of the performance art scene in the United States and Europe by Stuart Morgan.

Pindell has continued to develop and transform her approaches to art, weaving together personal and cultural history, trauma, and recovery, and remaining an outspoken champion of social justice.

You are an outspoken champion of the Romance genre.

This is the guy many might have assumed was so thorough a torch - bearer for self - publishing and so outspoken a champion of entrepreneurial authors that he'd throw scones at the huge traditional British house that wanted to handle his new work.

A dedicated advocate of urban public education and an outspoken champion of educational opportunities for urban students throughout Rhode Island, Keith stepped into this role in June 2017.

I like that DeVos hasn't spent her life in education bureaucracies, is an outspoken champion of all kinds of educational choice, strikes those who've driven Obama - era school reform as an «outsider,» and is a small government conservative.

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.

Paarlberg himself is an outspoken champion of the benefits of the Green Revolution.

She has since become an outspoken champion of gay rights.

He has been an outspoken champion of conservative causes in the House.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, an outspoken champion of women's rights, has been pushing hard (along with her colleagues) for this.

Nolan is an outspoken champion of public schools, and a strong NYSUT / UFT ally.

For an explanation as to why Cuomo would risk muddying the waters of his own campaign, you should look no further state former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall, who has emerged as an outspoken champion of Rangel — and chief critic of Democrats like Rep. Mike Arcuri who have turned their backs on him.

Not exact matches

When Jean Cardinal Verdier, the archbishop of Paris and outspoken opponent of Nazism, died in 1940, the New York Times commented: «Cardinal Verdier like Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII, was the especial champion of persecuted Jews.

In recent years, several notable Catholic leaders, such as Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917 - 80), who was killed as he celebrated mass, have championed the rights of the poor, and it is in Latin America that radical Liberation theology has had its most outspoken exponents.

This award is named for the late F.X. Matt, president of the F.X. Matt Brewing Co. in Utica, N.Y., from 1980 - 1989, and a tireless and outspoken champion for the small brewing industry.

The invite to the May 12 event, which costs between $ 1,000 and $ 3,800 to attend, features a photo of the mayor and a note from him lauding the Buffalo Democrat as a «champion for charter schools in the Assembly,» (which is, for the record, a place where that sort of behavior is not widespread), and also an «outspoken advocate for public school reform.»

He is an outspoken critic of the tougher gun laws championed last year by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Kavanagh is one of New York's leading champions of reform and is an outspoken advocate for changing the culture in Albany.

One of New York's leading champions of reform, Kavanagh is an outspoken advocate for changing the culture in Albany, fixing New York's broken election and campaign finance systems, and standing up to special interests.

Moss is chairman of the New York State Sheriffs» Association, an influential law enforcement lobbying organization, and is an outspoken critic of the tougher gun laws championed last year by Democratic Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

An outspoken liberal, he championed efforts to reduce sentences for non-violent drug offenders — which Donovan opposed while he was head of the state District Attorneys Association.

Parental school choice fit perfectly within John's intellectual framework for effective service delivery, and he championed all forms of it — vouchers, charters, tax credits, magnet schools, and open enrollment — throughout his academic and policymaking career, knowing full well that his outspoken support for this policy would limit his ability to rise through the ranks of his party.

Raicovich told Hyperallergic that, after last summer's controversy over the Israel - related event, she felt increasingly reluctant to undertake the type of ambitious and outspoken programming she had championed for more than two years.

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.»

Online, he is an outspoken blogger, often on the First Amendment, and a champion of bloggers threatened by censorious douchebags.

The grandmother of three kids under five has been an outspoken champion for the city of Hamilton as the president of the Hamilton and District Chamber of Commerce in 1996 and as past president of the Business Executives Organization, and has served on a long list of community boards and associations.

Judy has been an outspoken champion for the city of Hamilton as the president of the Hamilton and District Chamber of Commerce in 1996 and as past president of the Business Executives Organization, and has served on a long list of community boards and associations.