Sentences with phrase «vocal champion of»

As a vigorous outdoorsman, Roosevelt was a proud, vocal champion of the first phase of U.S. environmentalism: conservation, aimed at protecting tracts of wild land from industrialization.

He became the most vocal champion of Hansen's claims.

Halfon, who been a vocal champion of the government's apprenticeship programme, previously served as a minister without portfolio and attended cabinet under David Cameron.

«Sport is supposed to be fun,» says former Olympic swimmer Richard Pound, ex-president of the world agency and a vocal champion of the antidoping cause.

Prof Hawking was also a vocal champion of the NHS and, until his final months, sparred with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

The chief marketing officer, a vocal champion of brand safety and agency transparency, is also part of the Gun Safety Alliance, where she uses her work skills to promote tighter gun safety laws.

This might surprise you, but I think Christians can have the biggest impact by becoming vocal champions of what's possible in low - income public schools.

«USDEC has been one of the most vocal champions of the importance of including Japan and Canada in TPP since these markets offer strong opportunities for our members to expand U.S. dairy exports,» stated Tom Suber, USDEC president.

Ebert and his TV co-host Gene Siskel were vocal champions of Hoop Dreams, James's 1994 documentary about inner - city Chicago teens trying to become basketball players.

We can begin with one of the world's most vocal champions of asymmetry, game designer David Sirlin, who has been striving to bring videogame - style asymmetry to boardgames with his games like Puzzle Strike and Yomi, as well as his game Flash Duel, which is essentially Reiner Knizia's En Garde, but with asymmetrical characters added.

Not exact matches

Sanders also has been a vocal critic of Wall Street and champion of financial reforms, and his stance on those issues has drawn attention to Clinton's cozy relationship with Wall Street executives and the huge paychecks she has received for speeches to large banks since leaving the U.S. State Department.

Though governments are vocal smart city champions, some industry pundits say connected cities need the data power of private sectors like banking to evolve.

But even in Davos, which is favored by champions of globalization, there is vocal opposition to trade from critics who say it has benefited the elites at the expense of the middle class in many parts of the world.

Online, she championed technology and the Church, but also became a vocal supporter of same - sex marriage, swapping her doctoral thesis to that subject.

The double world champion has been pretty vocal in the past about not liking the current era of Formula 1 and hopes that the 2017 rules revamp will make the sport more to his liking.

Kyle Busch, the 2015 Cup Series champion, has been most vocal about what he believes is an overemphasis on a younger group of drivers whose collective accomplishments don't come anywhere close to matching his stellar résumé.

Tottenham's business is far from over with manager Mauricio Pochettino vocal about his ambitions to strengthen the squad further ahead of a highly - anticipated season where Spurs will play in the Champions League.

Chris Williamson, the MP for Derby North who has been one of the Labour leader's most vocal champions, is made a shadow fire services minister, having won back his seat, which was snatched by the Conservatives in 2015.

And Adonis remains one of the most vocal champions.

In turn Corbyn is set to introduce US rap band Run the Jewels who champion left wing politics and were vocal supporters of Bernie Sanders in his attempt to become the Democratic nomination for president last year.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a vocal critic of President Trump who has championed many women's causes, has resigned following a New Yorker article that detailed allegations by four women that he physically abused them.

The author crafts a unique perspective of Cuomo as liberal icon — especially as his day's most vocal and eloquent counterbalance to Ronald Reagan and the conservatism he championed.

«He has been a vocal champion for pre-k funding and for additional state aid for education, and a proponent of Community Schools, which put needed health and community services where they have the most impact — inside city school,» said Mr. Mulgrew.

He's championed veteran's causes, enacted a ban on styrofoam cups, worked hard to eliminate so - called toxic toys — and most of all been a vocal opponent of dangerous oil trains, grabbing national headlines.

A third option, championed by a small but vocal group of researchers, is that the hobbit is just a small - bodied member of our own species, with the single small skull being the result of disease.

President Obama's education policy championed and provided massive amounts of funding for charter schools, and President Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos are vocal supporters of these and other school choice initiatives.

The Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS), the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE), and the Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS) are among the most vocal Connecticut champions of the Common Core and the unfair, discriminatory and expensive Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

This is the very reason that self - publishing success story and vocal champion for indie authors Hugh Howey has suggested the formation of an actual union for indie authors.

Most of us are familiar with J.A. Konrath, who, after self - publishing several of his unpublished novels in ebook form and realizing how much more money he could make on his own than with a traditional publisher, became indie publishing's most vocal champion.

Clement Greenberg, one of the most vocal critics of the period and a champion of Pollock and other New York School artists, set the conversation's terms.