| He was the undisputed champion of television comedy and there will never be another like him. |
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| The 1992 UK champion potted the first 12 reds and blacks, but in potting the 13 th red into the middle he over-screwed the cueball. |
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| A photograph of the new Russian champion holding aloft the title belt after the fight was even submitted, complete with black eye. |
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| He raised chickens and turkeys for 4H, winning puffy blue ribbons for champion poultry two years running at the Colorado State Fair. |
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| Then Machimane hit Nel below the belt and the fight was temporarily stopped to give the champion time to recover. |
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| He is a former Belgian sky surfing champion and a member of a Himalayan expedition that climbed Annapurna without oxygen. |
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| Kelly Holmes is the Olympic 800 metres champion after her dramatic win in the final tonight. |
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| The immediate past champion sits at the head of the dinner table alongside Hootie and Byron Nelson. |
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| To pretend otherwise, to present herself as the once and future champion of a sovereign Britain, was to utter a whopper of leviathan proportions. |
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| And we should champion policies that increase the ranks of the former while alleviating the pain suffered by the latter. |
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| French champion jockey Dominique Boeuf won the challenge with two winning mounts. |
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| Great Britain's Olympic champion eight made the worst possible start to the defence of their title. |
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| A shearling ram shown by Tom Davies, of Pinvin, was champion male and reserve supreme. |
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| She is world champion and collected a silver medal in Manchester 12 months ago. |
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| Since then, the former champion lifesaver has seen the world thanks to rugby, with Japan being a personal highlight. |
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| The title of women's world 100 and 200 metres champion is turning out to be a poisoned chalice. |
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| Disciplined, introverted, abstinent, he achieved both aims, becoming a judo champion and, after law school, KGB recruit. |
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| The comparison once again shows Senator Leahy to be a champion nomination squelcher. |
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| Soon the hard work was to start in earnest, and in three years, he became national champion on the horizontal bar. |
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| He has been lauded as a solitary champion of liberty and censured as the absurd opponent of progress. |
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| An interesting sidelight of this champion youngster's career has been the schooling. |
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| An uncompromising champion of royal authority, he was sympathetic to victims of its abuse by corrupt courtiers. |
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| In the end it was a champion performance from Falkirk who have five games left and look uncatchable. |
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| We believe that the road back for our party and our movement lies in being an unapologetic champion for progressive ideas. |
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| The champion is a wily old bird however and Arthur was unable to press home his advantage. |
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| Fairly or not, the reputation of the world champion has forever been blackened by his association with drugs. |
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| A member of two Super Bowl championship teams, Sanders ' shining moment in baseball came with the 1992 National League champion Braves. |
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| Like her mother and her undefeated champion grandam, the precocious Storm Flag Flying keeps McGaughey on his toes. |
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| The owner of an animal home had her two puppies stolen and another had a champion pooch pinched when at a dog show. |
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| The champion trainer was nervous before the novice chase at Naas, but he needn't have worried as his young hopeful romped home. |
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| The competition ensured that the champion was decided only in the last round of the league. |
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| Four-time French champion jockey Olivier Peslier will ride regularly for Alain and Gerard Wertheimer beginning next year. |
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| I'm sitting with the heavyweight champion of the world on the apron of a boxing ring, our legs dangling over its edge. |
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| The club was champion of the Third Division York and District Association Football League. |
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| Meanwhile, the defending champion trained her focus on the grass court season after bowing out of the French Open at the quarter-final stage. |
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| The Irish champion walker was travelling in a car which was involved in a head-on collision with a lorry. |
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| Ballesteros was crowned champion after his record haul of 23 birdies to the delight of Europe. |
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| Defending champion Justin Rose made a disappointing start as he finished on one over par. |
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| She is a former world number three tennis player, French Open champion and Wimbledon semi-finalist. |
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| But copping an attitude alone won't make you a hacker, any more than it will make you a champion athlete or a rock star. |
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| Australia has a new gold panning champion in Pine Creek man Fingers McPhee. |
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| Ruiz, originally of Puerto Rico, becomes the first Hispanic heavyweight champion with his unanimous decision over Holyfield. |
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| Products range from cured ham and Cumberland sausage to champion black puddings, with goats cheese from Knutsford and pickles from Oldham. |
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| Meanwhile, whether it's a rare honey buzzard one day or a champion racehorse the next, the animal hospitals remain busy and stimulating places. |
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| The disputed middleweight champion was undisputedly the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. |
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| When two boxers trade punches for 12 rounds, we salute the champion and respect the loser. |
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| Badenhorst is three-times World Powerlifting champion and holder of the record for the World Mighty Man. |
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| Carl demolished every argument this so-called champion of evolution could throw at him. |
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| He also showed he was a champion team player by walking away when he thought it was of most benefit to the club. |
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| He competed as an international swimmer and was Scottish motorcycle trials champion twice before he switched to pedal bikes. |
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| The Arctic tern is the champion globetrotter, a big deal for an animal that measures only a foot long. |
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| Organisers are opening up the contest to youngsters from across the region to take on its champion rocketeers in reaching for the stars. |
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| But Sparta, the champion of oligarchies, set up an oligarchical regime whenever it took control of a city. |
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| He rose but careered wildly into the ropes and his tenure as champion was over. |
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| She was a champion at putting her foot in the bucket of fresh milk when it was half full, so eventually we had to employ the use of a leg rope. |
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| A champion of women's education in the truly liberal sense, he helped many a shy diffident young woman face the academic world. |
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| Only 2001 champion Jeff Gordon led more races and more times than Marlin last season. |
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| The overall champion of Saturday's East Mainland show was an Aberdeen Angus bull, Ebony of Burnside. |
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| Right now, Levski's two champion teams are enjoying a well-deserved break after a job well done and looking ahead to future successes. |
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| Burns' normal crisp punching style was fraying at the edges but he still stood toe to toe with the champion throughout the tenth. |
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| White leghorn Wendy was today selected as the champion chicken for this year's Linton-on-Ouse Festival. |
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| The 2002 British Open champion sank 14 reds before missing the penultimate black in the final frame of the day. |
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| Being a champion of governance reform, the President should move with resolve and conviction. |
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| I was the badminton champion and also excelled in darts, football and hockey. |
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| A champion of privatization, he's been holding closed-door meetings with moderate Democrats in the hopes of forging a compromise. |
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| The repercussions of the controversy around the alleged doping by three of Bulgaria's champion weightlifters continue to reverberate. |
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| With all that said, there's no feasible argument that can detract Floyd Mayweather as the undisputed champion of the lightweights. |
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| Sarah is a four-time world individual pursuit champion and Lauren and I are two roadies. |
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| Guess that plan didn't really pan out, but perhaps it would have succeeded if its masterminds used the power of rock to champion their cause. |
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| This man never lost his head, and was a great champion of the unchampioned youth of his country. |
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| Open champion or not, he has the dignity of a true champion, the mien of a monarch. |
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| I was a Big Ten wrestling champion at the University of Chicago and I had to train down, so I know it pretty well. |
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| He has now become the national veterans' champion and is about to represent England in an international. |
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| Despite now being aged 51, former world champion Karpov has seen a renaissance in his play. |
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| Anti-globalists champion various causes all the way from anti-sweatshops to protests against genetic engineering. |
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| He had a good trip to Solihull, having a first place and champion at the Heritage besides second, third and fourth places. |
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| He established himself as the champion of the working people and that helped propel him to the presidency. |
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| The world champion maker of Scotch pies is a small bakery called Sugar and Spice in Auchterarder. |
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| Well, the Prime Minister's always very fair about these matters, and he is a great champion of the democratic system of government. |
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| But she has defied the odds to become a sporting champion in karate, swimming and running. |
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| During the Peloponnesian War, Athens, the champion of democracies, of course supported the democrats throughout Greece whenever it could. |
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| Candidate A is running on a platform that he protects the environment and is a champion of a woman's right to choose. |
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| She is a fierce champion of equality of opportunity, having endured the bastardry of the Queensland government decades ago. |
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| The 1997 IRL champion has served as the modern-day role model for any open-wheeler looking to transition into stock-car racing. |
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| It is now hoped that the horse-cloning technique can be used to produce identical copies of champion jumpers and show horses. |
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| He was a world champion surfer whose only roles had been in surfing movies. |
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| Throughout he remained a firm but undogmatic champion of public-service broadcasting. |
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| Tensions are running high as William seeks to prove himself a champion and a true knight once and for all. |
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| It has invited various professions and organisations to put forward ambassadors who are prepared to champion its cause. |
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| We can make these puzzles so difficult that it would take a champion six hours to complete one. |
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| He wanders into a local gym, sees world welterweight champion Yuri in the ring, and offers to spar with him. |
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| He was also a Lancashire athletics sprint champion and a more than adequate club cricketer. |
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| As a champion of the underdog, what would she say about how society has dealt with the gap between the haves and the have nots of this world? |
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| Cosima was the love child, as she liked to put it, of Wagner's champion Franz Liszt and his mistress the Countess Marie d' Agoult. |
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| Former world champion Steve Davis chalks his cue as the UK Snooker Championships got under way today at York's Barbican Centre. |
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| This year he trained the light scull world champion Victoria Dimitrova as well as Neikova. |
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| Charges of censorship, however, will not impress a country that likes to consider itself a champion of literary freedom. |
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| The Australian Open champion has won seven Grand Slam titles and is the best returner in the game. |
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| The current Australian Open champion in his weight division was disappointed with his Bronze medal. |
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| The former heavyweight champion has squandered nearly 300 million in ring earnings through lavish spending and bad advice. |
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| Korda, one of the finest shotmakers in the game, battled back in great style but the champion of champions prevailed in the end. |
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| He sailed like the true champion to recover six places through the race, catching the Argentinian helm with the last surge on the finish line. |
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| Recent policies have cost our nation its reputation as the world's most admired champion of freedom and justice. |
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| He is seen by many as a challenger to Pipe's crown and is already favorite to be champion trainer next season. |
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| The champion put on a tremendous display but could not floor the American, who previously held the IBF title. |
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| The 1980 world champion cited an example where shuttlers did not seriously train during stroke sessions. |
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| He was crowned world 100 km champion after completing the race in a new British record time of six hours, 24 minutes and 5 seconds. |
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| The blogosphere has a prime opportunity to champion a cause that the media has ignored. |
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| In the long-term, however, the United States has far more to gain from living up to its self-image as the champion of freedom. |
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| Raducan had been the defending World and World Cup champion on both beam and floor exercise. |
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| He beat Keating in 1996, partly by casting himself as a champion of ordinary Aussies and Keating as representative of a washed-up elite. |
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| A thrilled young champion has swept the board at a national sports contest after overcoming his difficulties. |
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| And high on the wall he spotted the framed pair of boxing trunks worn and signed by world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis. |
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| The basic concept was conceived by Elgin Gates, the noted big-game hunter and champion racing boat driver. |
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| James was a hard-working farmer, who was a champion ploughman and cattle breeder. |
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| He was the champion of the downtrodden, the challenger of injustice, the idol in the making. |
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| The hungry challenger, acknowledged by Eubank as his best-ever opponent, out-boxed the champion and finally floored him in the 11 th round. |
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| Bookmakers in England will be forced to make large pay-offs after champion steeplechase jockey Tony McCoy won five races at Ascot on Saturday. |
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| It's a heavyweight clash of the two-mile champion chasers at Sandown tomorrow when the two go head to head in the trophy competition. |
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| He hopes Russian grandmaster and former world chess champion Gary Kasparov will give guest lectures. |
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| While aggression is a common virtue among champion pace predators, Walsh was adept at putting a lid on his temper. |
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| But the world featherweight champion knows how to control that anger, how to focus the energy of his rage on the point of an opponent's jaw. |
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| In short, if you want a champion for a distressed building or threatened institution, Rhys Jones is your man. |
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| Friday nights feature trophy events, and track champion drags are contested on Saturdays. |
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| Just nine months old, she is blissfully unaware that her daddy is an Olympic champion but is happy to use the medal as an unusual teething ring. |
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| At the hotel entrance, the former heavyweight champion rolls up in a dusty black cab to a scattering of cheers. |
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| The area once boasted the Florida state champion slash pine before it was struck by lightning. |
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| The 100-metres world champion since 1997 had finally tasted defeat after victories in 42 consecutive finals. |
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| Worse still, his new wife was a champion Nordic skier, and he didn't want to miss out on the fun. |
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| Ironically, the champion of the less well off appears more of a damp squib than a Catherine wheel. |
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| Lanre Atijosan, also from Prendergast, then dethroned the reigning champion in the long jump with a mark of 5.65 metres. |
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| Kip Rollins is a champion surfer who now does body-piercing and Indian sun dance rituals, rituals for initiation into manhood. |
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| The former cross-country champion has created quite a stir since she began training for a marathon debut. |
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| Supporters of the draft are using it to promote indirectly politics we should champion openly and up front. |
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| The Bahamian was beaten into third place by US champion Kelli White, who won in a wind-assisted 10.84 secs. |
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| Kerala's Shiva Priya's dream run came to an end in the 63 kg division where Asian champion Aruna Mishra beat her hollow in the first round. |
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| Those of us who have been ringside at his fights know he is the real thing, a tremendous champion and a great ambassador for the sport. |
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| The man, last year's champion apprentice jockey, had no trouble finding the winner's circle at Del Mar. |
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| A champion at school, he never failed to join his friends for a game of kabaddi, even if it scared his teachers. |
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| In 1916, in front of 30,000 people in Barcelona, he fought heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, who knocked him out in the sixth round. |
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| He was also the Public Schools' athletic champion in the 100 yards, the hurdles, long jump and high jump. |
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| Olympic heptathlon champion Denise Lewis competed in the long jump in her bid to rediscover form and fitness ahead of Paris. |
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| During the '90s, he saw little competition as the heavyweight champion in the group fitness ring. |
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| Like him or loathe him, former middleweight world boxing champion Chris Eubank is a legend. |
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| So far at least, he has escaped the disdain which eventually greets any great champion who keeps trading punches well past his prime. |
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| Scott must surely be heralded as the undisputed heavy weight champion of the action adventure spectacular. |
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| Thus, he cannot present himself as a champion of democracy and at the same time adhere to the position of those who dismiss it. |
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| Is the former world middleweight boxing champion about to make an unexpected confession? |
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| The last major stakes winner to stand at stud then return to the racetrack for competition was champion Bertrando. |
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| Before the second world war he was Worcestershire county golf champion and collected brass warming pans. |
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| Standing at 15,2 hands, the three-year-old was awarded the ultimate accolade and crowned supreme champion of the show. |
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| Thorpe is the current Olympic and triple world champion in the 400 meters and holds three world marks in freestyle distances. |
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| David was a Scottish hero, the world champion cyclist who looked to be a certainty for an Olympic gold medal. |
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| The ducks, from Silver and Apricot Call Ducks to Muscovies and of course his champion Aylesburys, appear to be in heaven. |
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| And, I'll have you know, you are now reading the village champion of the knocking the skittles down with a cricket ball game! |
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| The marker was Burley-in-Wharfedale's English Billiards champion Steve Crosland. |
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| Whether Michael or Michelle, she has always been a strong liberal supporter and champion of women's causes. |
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| She once worked for a Democratic party congressman, and is a champion of progressive causes including the advancement of women in business. |
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| The Yorkshire Productivity Awards have been set up to champion businesses which are bucking the trend of relocating overseas and axing jobs. |
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| The former British champion finished eighth in the series with one win after his debut season with Alfa Romeo. |
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| A former sawmill worker, he won a race car in a card game, and then became a champion in the Busch series. |
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| Despite the occasional champion who amassed riches, most fighters came from extremely poor families, and they remained poor. |
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| But the palpable excitement of managing the undisputed champion of heavyweight boxing has gone. |
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| Lincoln had been the girls sectional champion for as long as Amie could remember. |
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| This I understand to mean that the punishment for recreancy falls on the champion himself unless his hirer raises him from the field. |
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| He is a former sky surfing champion and a member of the first team to incorporate acrobatic stunts in a BASE jump. |
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| The champion Friesian heifer in milk saw an honour awarded to Aidan Foody from Ardagh. |
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| He is the undisputed backbench champion of the well-publicized empty gesture. |
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| On the campaign trail, he proclaimed himself a champion of Italy's private sector. |
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| Funny how inside every flannel wearing westie, there is a world champion drag racer raring to get out. |
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| I would ask those who champion the beach book why they are content to champion a dull novel in a comfortable environment. |
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| Or maybe he could send a strong message on his attitude to forestry and logging by putting champion woodcutter, David Foster, in the job. |
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| Smith ranked as champion jumps trainer in 1968 after saddling Red Alligator to win that year's Grand National steeplechase. |
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| His final birdie putt pulled him level with defending champion who failed to nail his own birdie putt for victory. |
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| The Welshman takes on Tate in Newcastle on 14 December, sharing top billing with undefeated WBU light-welterweight champion Ricky Hatton. |
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| He wants to win friends on the Labour back benches and among the party rank-and-file by appearing to be the champion of the poor. |
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| A native of North Carolina, Gray is one of the pre-eminent lawyers here in Washington, and a tireless champion of conservative causes. |
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| The individual medley provided the Games with the first ever swimming champion from Zimbabwe. |
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| My mother was also a world champion knitter who knit afghans, sweaters and all kinds of winter wear. |
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| The former WBC champion last year went the distance with Germany's Sven Ottke in an IBF title fight. |
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| He won on points and, later the same year, became undisputed champion of the world. |
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| The TV veteran and former boxing champion has been signed up as a columnist by the Aberdeen Evening Express. |
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| As for Colin Montgomerie, a 5-5 finish for 69 and an eight-under-par aggregate had the three-time champion in one of his more thunderous moods. |
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| Olympic hammer champion Szymon Ziolkowski of Poland set a new world championship record to win gold ahead of Asian record holder Koji Murofushi. |
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| It is hoped that in their absence, other scientists will come forward to champion science against religious obscurantism before masses of people. |
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| Mentally sparring with these leadership thinkers was like going a round with the intellectual heavyweight champion of the world. |
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| He has black belts in tae kwon do and kung fu, is a world champion fighter and holds titles in four countries. |
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| Of course, in Texas, being a champion of the environment has never been a guarantee of political success. |
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| Fifteen-year-old James Winter, who has only been breeding sheep for two years, won the champion sheep title with his Texel. |
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| For nearly 70 years the undisputed champion of performance golf balls featured rubber windings wrapped around a liquid-filled core. |
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| Now that we have Camilla installed, her champion wrote, should we still be maligning this lady? |
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| Matt Bianco was also unlucky when he faced Scottish champion Ian Mathison in a return bout. |
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| In 1999, at age 19, he became the Sambo world champion and, shortly afterward, began fighting in mixed martial arts events. |
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| They are organizers of demonstrations, strikes, and armed revolutions, and are the champion challengers of oppressors and deviants. |
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| The person we are looking at is likely to be acting on his own, misguidedly believing he is the champion of a cause. |
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| In the intermediate shot-put event, Tola Agora from Askes, defeated the All-England champion with a throw of 10.96 metres. |
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| Have you noticed those two blatherskites are creeping ever nearer to usurp you as champion posters? |
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| Knight errant, star of the tilt yards and champion to the king, Marshall was one of England's most famous knights. |
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| The all-American women's final is today, pitting defending champion Lindsay Davenport against Venus Williams. |
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| In his bonnet the champion sports a cockade neither of Jacobite white nor of Hanoverian black. |
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| It was okay for boxers of 50 years ago to be taciturn, but today the champion is expected to be an entertainer. |
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| Throughout the fight Cantwell swung wildly at the champion with round-arm swings which Petelo easily avoided. |
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| The 2000 US Open champion committed 53 unforced errors and was given a warning for racket abuse in a patchy display at Rod Laver Arena. |
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| To his admirers he was a resolute, wily, irreproachable and indomitable champion of the workers' cause. |
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| He is a former swimming champion with a degree in engineering and training in biomechanics, biochemistry, fluid mechanics and sports physiology. |
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| I'm proud to report that my lad is the all-in wrestling champion of Huntington. |
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| He was essentially a middle-class radical rather than a champion of the working-class claim to representation in parliament. |
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| Fellman won widespread acclaim as an authority in constitutional law and a champion of academic freedom. |
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| Now earlier the reigning World Cup soccer champion Germany defeated Sweden 1-to take the bronze medal. |
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| Born in Thirsk in 192, he excelled early in a variety of sports, and became a champion in boxing, high diving, and pole vaulting. |
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| As if that weren't enough, she is a former national champion of the Chinese martial-arts discipline of wushu. |
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| Urged on by over 8,000 cheering fans, the Silsden rider went head-to-head with reigning champion Albert Cabestany in the final round. |
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| Meanwhile, the reigning champion has announced that he will contest the series that begins in Hockenheim next weekend. |
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| We might not produce many Olympic gold athletes but we're world champion shoppers. |
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| The old boy may be on his last legs as a possible champion but he still knows how to make the opposition sweat. |
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| Each activity involved two competing homerooms from different houses and at the end of the day a champion house was announced. |
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| They both dived over the railing in magnificent, parabolic swan dives befitting Olympic champion divers. |
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| Coolmore recently purchased Ecurie Wildenstein's homebred Westerner, a champion stayer in Europe, to stand in 2006 as a National Hunt stallion. |
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| The Australian champion has had a sensational season and should be among the best sprinters when the Tour gets under way. |
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| The national champion lacked the intensity of concentration to complement her fighting qualities, and thus it was a struggle for her. |
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| It was his 200th Grand Slam match, but the 31-year-old Australian Open champion said he was still in tip-top shape. |
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| It was as a champion football player that he bedazzled all who were privileged to see him play. |
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| Before saying grace at the Seniors' annual dinner on Friday night, the priest twitted the new champion he'd played alongside earlier in the day. |
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| Left-wing bloggers are also now challenging traditional right-wing cranks for the title of champion conspiracy theorists. |
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| By the end of the second session, the 2002 world champion was four frames adrift of his opponent. |
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| The Australian champion throws off the challenge of Pirrie, the Canadian youth, and just wins a great race. |
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| He then became the youngest ever junior world champion the following year. |
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| She was immediately given a part in a big-screen biopic about champion cyclist Graeme Obree, which later floundered after the project ran into financial difficulties. |
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| But a real true blue hero and champion human has just left us. |
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| A week ago, champion Lennox Lewis, age 38, announced his retirement. |
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| But as a true anti-bullying champion will tell you, a bully is no less a bully simply because his victim seeks to excuse him. |
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| He speaks of taking on all the top junior welters, and he has also toyed with the idea of going up seven pounds to take on welterweight champion Cory Spinks. |
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| The former champion was floored 3 times in the second round. |
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| Falbrav took the lead along the rails soon after entering the straight, but defending champion High Chaparral responded well to nose just in front approaching the line. |
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| Calvin astronomer Howard Van Till was for years the leading evangelical champion of the Big Bang Theory. |
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| He has been a noted champion of republicanism, a political ethos that privileges the well-being of the nation over individual rights and liberties. |
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| John Edwards was viewed as too slick by half, his beachfront mansion belying his stated position as a champion of the downtrodden. |
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| If they were the only heavyweights left in a tournament stripped of its big names, the current US Open champion floored his opponent with contemptuous ease. |
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| He could be remade into a defender of the environment, a preserver of habitats and champion of rainforest ecology. |
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| Bruno Lemesle found only one case out of all his documents in Anjou where the defendant paid a champion for his efforts. |
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| So who better to ally himself with in his current undertaking than anti-abortion, anti-gay-rights champion Cuccinelli? |
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| For the past three years, my niece has been a champion salesgirl in the Nordstrom retail chain, selling fashionable garments to the younger crowd. |
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| Critics who are truly cinephiles, I believe, often champion extremes. |
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| Far from a champion of limited government, Abramoff made his living as an arbitrager of big government. |
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| The sport Minister was not put out at having to wait over an hour for the world heavyweight boxing champion to appear at last week's press conference. |
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| Five days ago, they were borne up the creek that leads out to sea, borne up like some all-conquering champion sportsman might be borne, and flung bodily at the bridge. |
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| Armstrong was the disgraced champion by then and he was doubtless disappointed by what happened but didn't say so. |
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| If that's not elite enough, the national champion has to dogfight its way through six games. |
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| Bred by Italo Trombini's Haras Valente and out of the Mat-Boy mare Betina Girl, Thignon Boy was also named champion older horse and champion stayer. |
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| He did become the 2010 Golden Gloves heavyweight champion for New England and win its Rocky Graziano Award. |
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| Eastern Conference Still regarded as the weaker of the two conferences, an open field will contend to provide cannon fodder for the Western champion next summer. |
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| Steely and matter-of-fact, the Commonwealth super middleweight champion is part of an exciting wave of British talent set to swell on the world scene over the next two years. |
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| He does not see the United States as a champion for freedom. |
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| It's a searing indictment of a political elite which can champion Britpop and a return to 1960s cool on the one hand without realising the implications. |
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| They weren't too disappointed because the person that beat them was not only the reigning champion for their region, but was also reigning world champion. |
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| Although nothing much is known about Tshongolo, the fact that he is Western Cape's middleweight champion and is rated number six in the country, signifies his boxing ability. |
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| He was an early champion of the artist's critical rehabilitation. |
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| The champion in the cattle section at Tuesday's Shapinsay show was a black heifer in calf named Tilly, owned by R. J. Johnston of Hewan, Shapinsay. |
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| The overall beef champion and also Champion of Champions at Saturday's East Mainland Show was a two-year-old heifer in calf, owned by John W. Hepburn of Burnside, Tankerness. |
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| On all-round ability and overall dominance, he should have been well ahead, but the intangible nature of what makes a great champion is plainly still missing. |
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| And the fundraising champion has been given another helping hand from a local gym, who have vowed to sponsor him with a personal trainer for a year. |
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| In fact, the four-time national and four-time senior champion happily admits his doggy has probably had more TV face time the past few years than he has. |
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| I went to regionals and was excited because the state champion from the year before was also in my regional and had attended my school when he won. |
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| In 1898, U.S. Open champion Fred Herd, a renowned boozer, was asked to leave a deposit on the championship cup, because officials were afraid he'd hock it. |
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| Yesterday, however, the triple Olympic champion turned up at the start of the women's time-trial and massacred the opposition to retain the second of her titles. |
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| Roosevelt was the tough-minded champion of a new, yet essentially conservative social order. |
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| Her game just kept improving with every round, she played some tough matches, demolished the defending champion in the semis and survived a battle of attrition in the final. |
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| A victory for the champion team Sydney has been much maligned this year. |
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| Triple Olympic champion Ludger Beerbaum of Germany finished tied for 16th. |
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| He has been the most exuberant champion of bold colors, the likes of which have not been seen since the Day-Glo days of raves. |
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| She can go from mediocre to champion in the space of a couple of sets. |
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| Ironically for someone who is supposed to be a champion of clean politics, he has fallen afoul of the very rules that were introduced to stamp out political corruption. |
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| This four-time Olympic champion has a charming smile that wins the love of middle-aged parents and sets young people's heart aflutter with affection. |
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| Radanova was world champion in 2000, when she won the 500-metre sprint. |
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| She is a varsity track star, a champion baton-twirler, and a volunteer at Cortland Memorial Hospital. |
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| But for all her reductivism, Thomas was a champion of sensory perception. |
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| But an audience of several hundred packed into the gallery to hear Sheila Harrod, the world's champion whistler, give a demonstration of her skill yesterday. |
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| It was then a case of when the going gets tough, the tough get going as Crawford clashed with the former West of Ireland champion and current senior international. |
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| Australia's world champion surfer Layne Beachley made what she believes was the shortest cameo appearance ever in the surfing film, Blue Crush, which was released last year. |
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| Bolton could have its next chess champion waiting in the wings. |
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| Among the women, Lindsay Davenport was seeded No.1, followed by defending champion Maria Sharapova, Amelie Mauresmo and former two-time champion Serena Williams. |
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| The former European singles champion will be top seed at this new tournament, promoted by Cheshire player Mike Johns in his new capacity as table tennis promoter. |
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| You can choose to champion their noble cause or put them in their place. |
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| Mackenzie Langemeier won the honor of grand champion Duroc barrow with her 259-pound pig named Rocky. The barrow was purchased from Kent Brattain. |
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| With money well invested and his health fine, the 36-year-old champion is considering going out on top rather than fighting until his skills fade and tarnishing his legacy. |
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| A force 3 north-easterly increased steadily throughout the evening to a force 4 and last year's league champion John Pawson took a commanding lead to win the first race. |
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| Both parties champion a free enterprise economy cushioned by a certain amount of social insurance. |
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| Mrs Smith, a long-term champion of animal rights, said she had been frustrated by the House of Lords which had repeatedly wrecked the Government's decision to ban fox hunting. |
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| Only then did California become a champion of environmental protection. |
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| Although he is a registered Democrat, he has close ties with conservative Republicans, and has become something of a champion of their Cold War views. |
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| However, the former world junior champion is standing by his claims. |
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| Stu Ungar, who repeated as champion that year, was a coke-addled enfant terrible whose wavelength happened to be out of phase with that of the London man of letters. |
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| Let's hope his public can be spared the sad, all too familiar sight of a once great former champion slogging his way round the circuit trying to recapture past glories. |
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| Although Munir never claimed that his efforts were intended to protect women's rights, many women activists viewed the slain campaigner as a champion of women's rights. |
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| This is particularly so since he is now putting himself forward as a candidate for national office as the champion of the progressive wing of the Democratic party. |
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| The champion might not be known until the final lap of the final race. |
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| It needs to recognise that, all too often, it poses as a champion of democracy while supporting regimes which have no proper respect for democracy. |
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| I went down that chain like an experienced world champion abseiler. |
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| Ironically the man who was a world champion in wood chopping, loved trees. |
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| Never maudlin, never cloying, the story is that of a judo champion struck down in a road accident and almost overnight becoming a paraplegic in a wheelchair. |
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