The new Euro-Mediterranean pact has been championed by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, which took over the rotating European Union presidency this month.
They were, with few exceptions, policies championed by small groups of influential people - in many cases, the same people now lecturing the rest of us on the need to get serious.
This is a tried-and-trusted growth strategy promoted in the past by economists such as Bela Balassa and lately championed by Dani Rodrik of Harvard, among others.
Pierre Toussaint, the 19th-century Haitian abolitionist, former slave and devout Catholic — who, like Cooke, has been championed by the Archdiocese of New York — has been in line since 1943.
Though championed by Mr Koizumi, it was anathema to Mr Abe, whose conservative credentials risked being undermined.
Poland is the largest of the former eastern European states whose membership of the EU was championed by Mr Blair when first in office, and all had been expected to back his candidacy.
The policy was implemented in year two of a three-year no-smoking plan championed by the hospital’s board of trustees.
The third, championed by the Liberal Democrats, was to get more students from poor families into university, despite the initially daunting higher fees.
The tariff, championed by Sen. Reed Smoot, R-Utah, and Rep. Willis Hawley, R-Ore., raised U.S. tariffs on more than 20, 000 imported goods.
Behaviorism is a school of thought that was there long before Skinner, championed by psychologists like John Watson, for instance.
For her, the worship of relics and intolerant crusaders soon replaced the rationalism championed by Gerbert.
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