Sentences with phrase «powerful champion in»

Silver, who has served as speaker since 1994, is arguably the party's most powerful champion in Albany for its liberal legislative priorities.

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This pattern went on until Arsenal pulled some pretty powerful performances in the UEFA champion League in 2006 especially, coming to just 15 minutes away from a famous win against Barcelona.

This term, the immensely powerful attacker has notched 12 goals in 21 starts, including three in the Champions League.

The powerful striker has scored a total of 156 goals in 180 games for the Ligue 1 champions since joining from AC Milan.

STRONG POINTS: The most powerful batting attack in the league, headed by last year's major league home - run champion (with 49) Ted Kluszewski.

The pacy and powerful attacking midfield star was never going to be cheap after a great summer tournament for the host nation but after Sissoko had made it clear that he was not up for a season in the second tier of English football and actually felt that Champions League football was a must for him I was not expecting such a high price tag.

• Only has one year left on his Marseille contract • Powerful centre - forward who could deal with Premier League physicality • Can also play on the wing, fulfilling Wenger's dream of having 12 wingers • Has Champions League experience • Has scored three goals in three games so far during this Ligue 1 season • French • His name is fun to say • Good hair

Having left in Auxerre in 2006, the powerful midfielder now returns to his homeland with Olympique de Marseille, who will look to be challenging for Champions League football next term.

It seems someone at UEFA, most likely Michel Platini, has decided that the Champions League should probably be kinder to those that are champions, even if they aren't as obviously powerful as the fourth - best team in England, Arsenal whoever that Champions League should probably be kinder to those that are champions, even if they aren't as obviously powerful as the fourth - best team in England, Arsenal whoever that champions, even if they aren't as obviously powerful as the fourth - best team in England, Arsenal whoever that might be.

After emerging from their group by following up their win over Portugal with a 1 - 1 draw against Spain and a 2 - 1 defeat by Russia, the surprises really started when defending champions France - complete with Zinedine Zidane and Thierry Henry - were beaten in the last eight by Angelos Charisteas's powerful second - half header.

With every other elite left back tied down to a financially powerful Champions League club, Mourinho also in the market for a central midfielder and a winger, and United working on a limited transfer budget, Tierney and Sessegnon have been proposed as cheaper alternatives.

beIN Sports, formerly Al - Jazeera Sports, is one of the most powerful broadcasters in world football, owning broadcast rights across the Middle East and North Africa including for Champions League and European Championship matches.

The Catalans were a rabbit in the headlights as a powerful City side's high pressing game in the second half saw them beat the La Liga champions, Manchester City started the game just how they finished it and nearly got their just rewards.

Once again Bayern have been such a powerful, dominant force in the Champions League.

Small but powerful, in high school he took his lumps early and turned himself into a champion, winning state titles at Wisconsin's Wayland Academy in 1991 and following it up a year later with a 103 - pound crown while a senior at Buffalo Grove.

«Hector has been a powerful progressive voice — championing affordable housing for youth and seniors, fighting for the environment, standing up for our immigrant community, and leading a progressive caucus in the County Legislature.

So far, DiNapoli's most powerful champion, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, to whom the former Long Island assemblyman largely owes his current statewide post, has shown little interest in heeding Cuomo's call or abandoning DiNapoli.

It's easy to see why: misconceived central planning, ill - judged attempts at creating national champions and the inefficiencies of public ownership in the 1970s and 1980s were powerful evidence for the prosecution.

Health - care providers can send a powerful message — that violence is not only a social problem, but a dangerous, unhealthy, and harmful practice — and they can champion prevention efforts in the community.

Manuka honey is hardly the undisputed champion of honeys — it's weaker for bee defensin 1, another powerful antibacterial compound in honey — but it has unique properties too.

Running For His Life: The Lawrence Phillips Story: SHOWTIME Sports presents a powerful documentary uncovering the cycle of domestic violence that plagued two - time NCAA Division I college football champion Lawrence Phillips and the demons that led to his death in January.

One year after finding vengeance for his murdered brother, MMA champion Kurt Sloane finds himself back in Thailand — kidnapped and imprisoned there by a powerful gangster (Christopher Lambert).

Set after the war, with Ip Man relocated to Hong Kong, it replaces the foreign devils that were the occupying Japanese Army with the colonial British foreign devils ruling Hong Kong in 1950 and sets the honorable sensei against a corrupt cabal of martial arts teachers lead by Sammo Hung (who is also the film's fight choreographer) and a champion boxer called The Twister (Darren Shahlavi), a British brute with a powerful punch and a killer instinct.

But among them, the teacher unions are almost always the most active and powerful, and they generally take the lead in championing the cause of employee interests in politics.

In my experience, technology has the powerful ability to help teach and illuminate, preparing young people to succeed in a world that champions digital expertisIn my experience, technology has the powerful ability to help teach and illuminate, preparing young people to succeed in a world that champions digital expertisin a world that champions digital expertise.

For nearly a half - century in the U.S. Senate, Mr. Kennedy was a steadfast champion of the working class and the poor, and a powerful liberal voice on health care, civil rights, and other issues, as well as education.

We are an effective and powerful voice — championing everyone who works in education.

Youth as Knowledge Creators (2011) When WKCD made its online debut in 2001, we had one goal: to champion what we called «powerful learning with public purpose» by this nation's adolescents.

Ravitch has developed a powerful following among public school teachers, who have found in her a champion amidst what they see as a governmental assault on their profession.

This champion minivan produces a powerful 248 horsepower with an impressive fuel economy rating at 19 - mpg in the city and 27 - mpg on the highway.

Emotionally powerful and irresistibly page - turning, Escape from the Land of Snows is simultaneously a portrait of the inhabitants of a spiritual nation forced to take up arms in defense of their ideals, and the saga of an initially childlike ruler who at first wore his monk's robes uncomfortably but was ultimately transformed by his escape into the towering figure the world knows today — a charismatic champion of free thinking and universal compassion.

And champion her he does, both to other powerful people who can help her along the way and to Anjali herself, stirring in her a desire to take charge of her own destiny.

As one of the powerhouse young adult authors who championed the #YASaves hashtag on Twitter, a cause that was taken up by authors and readers alike who felt that powerful teen literature had helped them survive high school and shaped them into the adults they are today, Rainfield often writes about the characters and topics that teen readers hunger for but that the adults in their lives want to pretend aren't real.

• Injustice 2 continues the story set in motion in by the hit game Injustice: Gods Among Us • Immerse yourself in cinematics straight from the console — with the Justice League shattered it is up to you to pick - up the story and unite a team • Experience the best graphics on mobile — play with Superman, The Flash and many more in high definition combat • Become the champion the world needs — enter a contest of Super Heroes where only the powerful win

In Gust's upcoming Blue Reflection, The Common is a «mythical parallel dimension» where human troubles lie and its champions get powerful magical abilities.

Take your place as a powerful Summoner, calling forth and controlling brave Champions in battle.

In a future ruled by the all - powerful lunar super computer Moon Cell Automaton, these champions now duke it out for dominance over this digital realm, known as «SE.RA.PH.»

As such, most fights in Champions Online revolve around timing your blocks and attacks so that you can use your most powerful skills as frequently as possible.

By collecting Champions, protagonists Reynn and Lann can deploy them in battle as powerful summons, under certain conditions.

This champion point can be used in the Champion system which gives you powerful passive abilities.

In a future watched over by the all - powerful lunar supercomputer, «Moon Cell Automaton,» these champions now battle for dominance over this digital realm, known as «SE.RA.PH.»

At the end of the 1950s Caro, a young and promising sculptor, was visited in his studio by the American art critic Clement Greenberg, an extraordinarily powerful observer of art who had championed Jackson Pollock before anyone else.

The championing of unique printing techniques that helped transform printmaking into a powerful contemporary art form both in the United States and Russia will be the topic of a Gallery Talk moderated by art historian and independent curator and critic Sarah Tanguy Saturday, March 4, from 3 to 5 pm.

One of the most exciting signs of a change in thinking came in a powerful essay written for Yale Environment 360 by two former Democratic senators, Tim Wirth and Tom Daschle — long champions of such top - down tools as laws and treaties.

«The combination of our operating and development capability with CPPIB's resources and experience creates a powerful Canadian champion for developing offshore renewable energy projects in Europe.»

Our foundation champions education and the arts, and I can see that mission being served in a powerful way through this park and our partnership with Scenic Hudson.»

More recently, as the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner, she persuaded many of the most powerful men in the country to publicly commit to being part of a program — the Male Champions of Change — to take action on gender inequality.

In fact, according to Real Estate Champions, seven simple principles can help set clear, powerful goals: