While giving his opinion on burqa ban Mr Bolkestein said that he "disagrees with the recent introduction of a burqa ban, an idea championed by Geert Wilders."

On another issue, the Medicare conference committee has abandoned an idea championed by conservatives: creation of an agency to manage Medicare drug benefits and to encourage elderly people to enroll in private health plans.

An idea which is similar to 3...Qb6, a variation championed by Baadur Jobava.

His connections clearly helped get ideas championed by the natural gas industry included in the National Energy Strategy crafted earlier this year by the Administration.

The radical idea, championed by the Conservatives as bringing more accountability, has been criticised by police chiefs who fear it will lead to a greater politicisation of policing in Britain.

Another idea, championed by Edwin T. Jaynes, is to use the principle of maximum entropy (MAXENT).

It puts forward several ideas long championed by Undersecretary of Transportation Michael P. Jackson.

He said putting serial numbers on the transformers - an idea championed by some police officials - would only help to trace stolen lights.

Similarly, consideration of an enterprise zone, an idea championed by the late Jack Kemp, seems grandiose and unlikely to yield results for Lake Providence.

Professor Starr, a health policy adviser to the White House in 1993, said of the magazine, "We are in the amazing position of having seen some of our ideas championed by the new administration."