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I championed the 12-step program and monitored her improvement daily as though curing heroin addiction was as simple as nursing a cold.

This changed in 2000 with a compulsory pension scheme, one of many social-policy efforts championed by the last colonial administration.

Gove, who has championed the flagship schools policy, said on Sunday only that the free school system did not need profit "at the moment" .

championed harsh local laws in an attempt to crack down on illegal immigration.

In 1945 the retrocession of Taiwan made it a reality "Taiwan comes back to consolidate Chinese nation" which Dr. Sun championed.

Nonetheless, some leading tobacco control advocates have championed smokeless tobacco as a means of kicking the smoking habit.

To fail to ensure the right to vote free of intimidation and coercion from all sides would be a betrayal of what we have always championed.

But she told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the negotiating process championed by the Bush administration is being reviewed .

So her second choice was to be buried next to Michael Jackson, whose friendship she treasured and whom she always championed.

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama is a way of encouraging him to not renege on the universal principles that he has championed.

Elected easily , Roosevelt attacked corruption with vigor , championed social legislation, and was consequently soon at odds with Platt .

Globalization, long championed by the United States, has pushed the Cold War mentality of military alliances into obsolescence.

Only by that can we say that Peking University has lived up to the democratic ideal it championed a century ago.

Kazakhstan has tens of thousands of talented young people, a number educated abroad in a program Nazarbayev has championed.

Is it Chiang's dream of a more free-wheeling nation, or the image of a revolutionary utopia championed by his communist nemesis, Mao Zedong?

Ardent in her beliefs, Lois opposed censorship and the death penalty and championed the discussion of birth control.

The policy was implemented in year two of a three-year no-smoking plan championed by the hospital's board of trustees.

Hamilton championed the tariff as a necessary defensive barrier against stronger European manufacturers.

Wilson had championed a diplomacy that sought the good of mankind above the selfish interests of the United States.

In 2007, he championed Strauss-Kahn's candidacy to head the IMF - in part, observers say, to get a rival out of the way.

The banking system is still hobbled by bad loans to state enterprises and state projects that Mr. Zhu championed.

As the Swiss leader in medium-priced sport watches, Certina has always championed the best quality at an accessible price.

In its place, the prime minister championed a 'muscular liberalism' that 'believes in certain values and actively promotes them. '

Julia tirelessly championed the cause of official celebration of Mothers Day and declaration of official holiday on the day.

Under Bill Clinton, Rubin championed reducing budget deficits, deregulating finance, and opening foreign markets to private investment.

He has championed the idea of a coming 'Global Century' in business as America's economic dominance is challenged by Asia in particular.

It championed both the single currency and the EU's eastward enlargement and now sends most of its exports to countries that are in the EU.

SINCE his first days as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama has championed investment in infrastructure.

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As a further safeguard of the popular interest, progressives championed the recall.

Novelist Edmund White, whose early work had been championed by Nabokov, was equally blunt.

The civil rights measures Johnson championed embittered many southern whites, whose allegiance shifted to the Republican Party.

Then, in 2002, the mother of a child with a skin ailment championed its comeback.

China has always championed our mutually beneficial opening-up policy and advocated international economic cooperation.

Initially, many policymakers championed biofuels as indubitably beneficial.

She championed bills to give the presidency control over judicial appointments, and to reallocate congressionally-mandated spending at will.

Even Prime Minister David Cameron has championed the cause, telling parliament he wants 'this problem sorted out' before the wedding.

Dr Frieden has since championed a fresh emphasis on the topic as head of the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Patrick Vieira again championed Arsenal's team spirit after the Gunners made sure of the Barclaycard Premiership title today.

Barack Obama championed a "say on pay" for shareholders long before he became president.

Those who wanted to write him off as a right-wing Republican were disabused by the variety of radical causes he championed.

The position will also likely involve helping introduce the unpopular tax increases that Mr. Noda championed during his campaign.

Zelaya pushed for more anti-poverty programs and also championed what he called "people power. "

But other scholars say that Mr. Vogel's new volume offers a deeply textured portrait of Deng and the reforms he championed.

But India is no longer the one-way bet once championed by true Bric believers.

As prime minister, Mr Thaksin championed the cause of the rural poor, mainly in the north.

Those in the West who had championed his cause were disconcerted to find that he saw the capitalist system as little better than communism.

Well before the financial crisis, he championed, against German doctrine, a political counterweight to the European Central Bank.

I want to share with you some good news as it pertains to the stimulus and the SAFER Act for which you championed and signed off on.

In modern times, Democrats have championed civil rights, labor reform laws, and most recently, health care reform.

Apple has always championed solid design and simplicity and their websites have followed these axioms.

This newspaper has always championed free trade, open markets and vigorous competition in the physical world.

he trimmed affirmative action , effectively ended racial quotas at the city university of new york and championed school choice.

Dickson Despommier, a Columbia University professor who has championed the vertical farm design, has a different economic argument.

Many even argue that the strategies it championed are transforming the sector.

First, he championed changes in hospital practices to minimize the spread of disease by microbes.

He offered a full-throated defense of the interest-rate policies he championed.

One rule, championed by Georgia's House majority leader, banned them from living within 1, 000 feet of a school bus stop.

Since pacing is championed by many patient groups, scientists wanted to test whether it works.

Meanwhile, young celebrities have championed a mix-and-match aesthetic.

China's most popular star, Yao Ming, championed the program pledging to never again eat shark fin soup, generating 300 news stories.

Those of us who have championed open platforms cannot ignore these facts.

She championed the cause of religious freedom.

We have always championed the cause of equal rights for women.

The value of education is something that Froebel championed, through plastic modes of play.

Mrs. Bush's day-long visit was her third to Afghanistan, where she has long championed women's rights and education initiatives.

The plan was first championed by British Deputy Prime Minster Nick Clegg in January.

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A pragmatic man, Organa was nonetheless compassionate and championed benevolent causes such as the Refugee Relief Movement.

Many of the worst errors were championed by conservative constituencies.

Mock objects were championed by Tim Mackinnon, Steve Freeman, and Philip Craig 1 and have become a staple in the unit testing toolbox.

Alvin Dewey, the chief police investigator, championed it to the end.

She even chatted by phone in December with former First Lady Laura Bush, who had championed the Burmese cause.

TWENTY-THREE years after he first championed greed, Gordon Gekko is back.

As president, even the impeccably liberal Mr Obama has taken a markedly different line to the one he championed in 2006.

While the idea has been around since the early 1990s, and championed by Toyota, what's new in the Sao Paulobasedlabisthe scale.

championed the cause of civil rights.

She championed the cause of civil rights.

The proposal is being championed by Wang Qishan, the vice- premier in charge of finance, according to bankers.

This is Han Zaifen, a prominent artist so enthralled by Huangmei opera that she has, for decades, championed the traditional art form.

He is a Clintonian centrist who has championed welfare reform, free trade and even a slightly flatter tax code.

Mr de Soto has also championed the use of league tables to shame governments into cutting red tape.

Where it is legal, gay marriage has been championed by courts and legislatures, not voters.

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But he has long championed alternative views on health.

Nor is it because he championed the abstract idea of fields, a fecund notion that underpins much of modern physics.

After public protest, championed by publications such as the Ladies' Home Journal, a federal act was passed in 1906.

For example, Democrats championed the idea of women being allowed to vote.

They have championed a 5-year goal of doubling U. S. exports, and creating an estimated 2 million jobs in the process.

This approach has been championed by Erik Verlinde at the University of Amsterdam who put forward the idea in 2010.

She has long championed American Indian languages and wrote A Papago Grammar, which is used by students.

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