The modern institution was introduced, Championed by the Church, worked for by the Church, but when at last it was successful, somehow or other it seemed to have severed itself from the Church altogether.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
The landed interest, headed by most of the aristocracy on the one side, and the manufacturing interest, Championed by Cobden and Bright, on the other, raised a storm in which language the reverse of parliamentary was tossed from side to side.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
In spite of the contention of the art for art's sake school that poetry has nothing to do with morality or religion, the greatest poets are those authors of the literature of ecstasy who Championed new ideas, fought for liberty in their works, expressed the advanced ideas of the age, and gave us a new and more liberal outlook on life.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell