Labour should be the BBC's most vigorous champion against Murdoch and Tory predators.

Within the European Community, West Germany, eager to expand its exports and other ties, has been the most vigorous champion of the opening to Eastern Europe.

Mr. Johnson is known in the industry as an energetic and enthusiastic executive who has been a vigorous champion of First Amendment issues.

Secretary Bennett, who took the position that Federal education spending had been excessive and poorly allocated over the years, became a vigorous champion of budget-cutting.

He was a vigorous champion of new music all his life.

It was not lost on other countries that the Soviets were emerging as more vigorous champions of the Court than was the U.S., which helped found the institution.

The critic Edmund Wilson, one of the poem's earliest and most vigorous champions, pointed out its "essential dramatic character."

Within a large and varied musical output, Handel was a vigorous champion of Italian opera, which he had introduced to London in 1711 with Rinaldo.

A vigorous champion of printmaking as a democratic medium, Mr. Cole encouraged museums and private collectors around the world to build their collections.

Representative Yates, a vigorous champion of the arts budget, is to decide who gets exactly how much next month.