Sentences with phrase «time champion of women»

Disgraced former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was known as a long - time champion of women's rights.

Disgraced former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was known as a long time champion of women's rights.

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Hosszu, five times a world champion but without a medal from three previous Olympics, demolished the world record by 2.07 seconds in the final of the women's 400 meters individual medley.

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

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.

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.

FIGURE SKATING — Three - time European champion BEATRIX SCHUBA of Austria won the women's world championship at Lyons, France.

# 42 Leah Marie Rawls Atkins BIRMINGHAM Three - time U.S. waterskiing champion, and world champion in 1953; first woman inducted into Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.

Kostelic (below) won four Olympic gold medals, was a three - time World Cup overall champion and is one of only three women to win events in all five Alpine disciplines.

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.

- Joanna was on an 14 fight win streak at the time of the loss to Rose, 5 of those fights being title defenses - dominant champion, long time champion (had she beat Rose she would have tied Ronda for most Womens title defenses)- some would also argue the division doesn't have any other real challengers

The volunteers at Congressional include a sugar - beet farmer (Jim House of Brawley, Calif.), a journalist (Gary Galyean, editor of iGolf), a two - time U.S. Women's Amateur champion (Carol Semple Thompson) and the secretary of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews (Michael Bonallack).

The cyclists particularly shone in Australia as Elinor Barker — already an Olympic gold medallist and three - time world champion — confirmed her status as one of the sport's elite by winning the women's point race in the velodrome before turning domestique on the road to help Dani Rowe claim a hard - fought bronze.

In 2015, Chelsea Ladies won a famous double, becoming champions of the FA Women's Super League for the first time and winning the FA Women's Cup at Wembley Stadium.

In the chair are a Two - time Wimbledon champion, England netball's next star, an Olympic gold medalist and two of women's cricket biggest names.

Two athletes made the automatic qualifying mark of 6.70 m in the women's long jump — Serbia's world bronze medallist Ivana Španović (6.77 m) and Russia's two - time European indoor champion Darya Klishina.

In just their second year in the top flight of women's football, the Blues secured a top - two finish and Champions League football for the first time, winning all bar one of their nine league games in the second half of the campaign and delighting record crowds with some beautiful football.

Another speaker at the press conference was Ashleigh Clare - Kearney, a two - time national champion in gymnastics and the first Louisiana State University student athlete to earn the distinction as an NCAA Woman of the Year finalist in 2009.

I was the New England Champion of cross country running and a state champion in track and I coached from time to time «girls on the run» because I like to encourage young women to get involved in running.

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, long - time representative of the Upper East Side and champion of women's equality will speak, with other luminaries, about what forms the attack on women's rights are taking and how to stand up, speak out and hold on.

The actions of the Senators we are targeting today have been particularly egregious because they have time and again portrayed themselves as friends and champions of the cause of working men and women.

While fans of other pioneers of the era may put forth their own champions, Erika Hinchey was one of the first women of influence at a time when women were beginning to become a factor in local politics.

In New York, the Senator has proven time and again to be a true friend of working men and women and a champion of labor's causes.

At the same time, body positivity activists attracted attention from clothing brands, mainstream media outlets, and other influencers interested in championing body diversity, diverting from the media's idea of «perfect» in favor of real women facing real women problems, not model problems.

Susan Arruda, 48 year old mom of 2 and 6 time fitness champion is back for another women focused Master Session.

A heartfelt and well acted tale of sports underdog uplift, and a marginal recommendation for those interested in its subject matter, The Mighty Macs tells the true story of a driven women's basketball coach who in the early 1970s turned tiny Immaculata College into a three - time national champion.

Not only did we see women fighting in The Octagon for the first time, we saw two of the sport's most iconic champions - Anderson Silva and Georges St - Pierre - lose their respective titles.

Her most famous work is The Dinner Party (1979, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York), which celebrates the achievements of real and legendary women throughout history, while at the same time championing the «feminine» crafts of needlework, embroidery and ceramic art, counterbalancing this with «male» crafts like metalwork and welding.

You don't want to blog about your life (lifestyle blogger), unless you are big time championing an issue such as discrimination against women or people of color in the law.

Paul was recently ranked as the leading lawyer in the Male Champion of Women in Business in the UK by The Financial Times and HERoes, a gender - equality initiative and was the sole private sector representative at the United Nations launch event for «Champions of the Global Equal Pay Coalition», to talk about the role that professional services firms can play in bridging the gap in equal pay.