defend

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Backing, supporting & defending
adopt
advocacy
affirmation
ally yourself to/with someone
argumentation
bail out
bat
bet
buoy
champion
commitment
over-favour
pander to someone/something
prop something up
provide
provide for someone
solidly
sustenance
underpin
wave/show/fly the flagidiom

Examples of championed

championed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Rather, they championed capitalism, but from the perspective of an underdeveloped nation.
If those in the past championed customary rights and democratic participation, these were still important historical lessons for contemporaries.
As the study progressed, the results were regularly but informally presented back to the design manager, who championed the collaboration.
How might we interpret this consistent pattern displayed on three tasks from the heuristics and biases literature where alternative task construals have been championed?
To resolve this dilemma, they championed state regulation of foreign economic interests.
In so doing they championed artists and artistic styles of their own choosing.
Advocates championed it as embracing a potentially productive carrot and stick approach.
This impulse emanated from precisely those groups of medical professionals and volunteers that had championed the modern drive to make the city liveable.
Nationalism, in short, followed the same twisted logic that was championed by the inhumane adherents of positive liberty.
Elders thus championed husbands attempting to recover their wives.
Even workfare initiatives were primarily championed by policy advocates and experts.
Some of the most important rights championed by liberalism enjoy the supreme protection of recognition as inalienable and unwaivable.
By contrast, other reforms are championed by particular constituencies.
Despite the fact that the intelligentsia attacked economic imperialism and championed state intervention in the economy, they did not attempt a general anti-capitalist attack.
Commons championed the idea of "industrial commissions" as a new form of governance for the corporate age.
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