1.   And Carter, who has championed human rights issues around the world, noted that most Chinese human rights advocates approve of better trade relations between the two nations.

2.   But then Gore won many over with an unusually lively appeal that he had the heart to champion Democratic issues like education and health care.

3.   Clinton deserves credit for championing this issue.

4.   He is capable of bucking his own party to champion such issues as campaign-finance reform and Indian rights.

5.   I wonder how much more people here would care about people there if more of us, especially African-Americans, championed the issues there.

6.   In turn, their Palestinian neighbors intensified their protests against land confiscations, forcing Arafat to champion this issue more than he really wanted.

7.   It was his second futile go-around with the Green Party, a small organization centered in the West that champions environmental issues.

8.   Rep. Gary L. Ackerman, D-N.Y., who has championed the issue but is not on the Commerce Committee, echoed that view.

9.   The party has built up an unprecedented support base in the Republic of Ireland by championing working class issues such as drug abuse, crime control and affordable housing.

10.   Where he championed liberal issues, such as family leave and a higher minimum wage, she has been against both.