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 championing

championing

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

Seeing race as performative also valorizes the visual realm, championing a subjective and plural reading of the text.
Allegiance to fashion snobbery was quickly dissolved with ravers championing the rise of the blatantly pirated clothing that mutated into children's clothing and bland beachwear.
There were several reasons for the union's championing such a takeover.
Nevertheless, supporters of judicial hegemony seem undeterred in championing the judiciary as the exclusive body for resolving rights conflicts.
Where appropriate, the authors provide opinions without championing particular modelling systems or approaches.
Many scholars and practitioners are actively championing the participatory constitution-making model as the best way to achieve a culture of democratic constitutionalism.
Yet his emphatic championing of ideology over pragmatics can come to seem a rather artificial intervention.
Although championing the values of working-class solidarity, self-improvement through travel, and international understanding, socialist tourism also promised comfortable accommodations and solicitude to individual desires.
The championing of the integrity of the family, and of social security, could therefore coincide with criticism of government economic policy.
It was just the sort of radical cause that he had relished championing in the past, fighting for the labouring poor to obtain a poor law political voice.
He pursued peace instead of championing justice.
Olfric's championing of the general ashing may indicate some sort of awkwardness in the juxtaposition of these two rituals.
Combined with their championing of working-class popular culture and (more incongruously) with their espousal of social reforms like old-age pensions, was a definite and electorally effective liberal message.
The debate should focus on the idea that the excesses of those championing the environment will result in unrealistic, unworkable legislation.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
In any regulatory system, there is bound to be a difficult balance between championing the rights of the consumer and not overburdening the service provider.
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