The sport has recently found popularity in the North West of England following it's profile being raised by former long distance runner, Gareth Owen.

It exists to encourage and improve sport at Selwyn College – a task it accomplishes by offering financial grants to individual sportsmen / women and college teams, through the lobbying of College, and by generally raising the profile of sport in Selwyn.

Ratner continues to educate numerous athletic commissions to help raise the UFC's media profile in an attempt to legalize mixed martial arts in jurisdictions inside and outside the United States that have yet to sanction the sport.

The sport grew from a pastime of the Healy family picnic and, in the 1960s, its national profile was increased by Jim Boggio Sr.

Whilst the sport has been dominated, in terms of profile, by the premier category from inception ( ages 18 – 30 ), the masters ( 40 +) and grand masters ( 50 +) categories have grown significantly.

He was appointed party spokesperson firstly on youth affairs and sport, then western development ; however, he failed to build a national profile as he concentrated more on constituency matters.

Tennis was the most-popular professional female sport from the 1970s onward, and it provided the occasion for a symbolic " battle of the sexes " between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, enhancing the profile of female athletics.

Master McGrath won the Waterloo Cup hare coursing competition three times in 1868, 1870 and 1871 at a time when this was a high profile sport.

The release of the documentary and its subsequent airing on PBS affiliates has, if not made the sport more popular, raised its profile to more than just a local phenomenon.

The sport is highly popular in Warrnambool which has a competitive local league and is the origin of many high profile AFL players.

French coach, Claude Saurel, first arrived in Georgia in 1997 with a brief to assess the standard of sport ; he and his development team have helped boost the profile of the sport to the extent that it is now considered the country's most popular team sport, even ahead of football.

TV4 continued to be a source of concern for the broadcaster the position of TV3 has been strengthened by alliances with SKY Television for sport and a series of high profile mistakes by TVNZ as it dealt with the dominance of SKY in pay television.

Cricket is the most popular and highest profile summer sport in New Zealand.

Despite such successes, kayaking has remained a comparatively low profile sport in New Zealand, making do with less funding, resources and attention than the more successful sports such as rowing.

A ZQ8 edition is available with a lower and more road-tuned " sport " suspension than the standard Z85 and comes with 17 inch wheels, color-matched bumper and grille, and low profile fender flares.

However, in Japan, race queens have a higher profile and are regarded as idols varying only by the motor sport event they appear in.

Australian rules football has a small following in Ireland which has increased due to the International rules series that takes place annually between Australia and Ireland, the profile of the sport has increased.

Tennis is the highest profile sport for the two weeks of the Wimbledon Championships, but otherwise struggles to hold its own in the country of its birth.

To aid the FFA's goals of building the profile of the sport, the Mariners created formal links with local state league team Central Coast United.

These developments move the sport away from the " scrap-car ", cheap motorsport area and provide a higher profile entertainment spectacle.

Apart from the Oxbridge boat race, student sport has a low profile in the United Kingdom and is generally only followed by the competitors and their friends and families.

As Li ' l Abner reached its peak years, and following the success of the Shmoos and other high moments in his work, Al Capp achieved a public profile that is still unparalleled in his profession, and arguably exceeded the fame of his strip.

Subsequent singles " Filling up with Heaven " and the non-album single " Stay with Me Tonight " also reached the UK Top 40, and a new remix of " Don't You Want Me " was released to capitalise on the band's revitalised profile.

The compromises that were reached in a series of immigration laws in the 1920s established the principle that the number of new arrivals should be small, and, apart from family reunification, the inflow of new immigrants should match the ethnic profile of the nation as it existed at that time.

The Pin Group's " Ambivalence " 7 " ( the first band of Roy Montgomery ) was the first release from Flying Nun, although it is widely assumed that " Tally Ho " by The Clean was the first release, as it unexpectedly reached number nineteen in the New Zealand charts, bringing the label unanticipated profile and income.

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His performances gained him a high profile transfer to Celtic where he enjoyed the most successful spell of his career winning three championships and was part of the squad that reached the 2003 UEFA Cup Final.

He returned as a profile of the top-flight Danish 1st Division, but never reached his former form.

A belief system is consistent for a given strategy profile if and only if the probability assigned by the system to every node is computed as the probability of that node being reached given the strategy profile, i. e. by Bayes ' rule.

It is necessary to stipulate the ' wherever possible ' clause because some information sets might not be reached with the given strategy profile and hence Bayes ' rule cannot be employed to calculate the probability at the nodes in those sets.

Their growing profile was confirmed when a third single, " Six Guns ", appeared at the end of the year and reached number 1 in the UK Indie Chart, as did the successful joint venture with The Exploited on a 12 " single EP, " Don't Let ' Em Grind You Down " which featured tracks " Ain't Got Me " & " Another Dead Soldier ", both were recorded as part of The Wragby Studio Session Tapes in 1980.

Silicon shows a peculiar profile, in that its electrical resistance increases with temperature up to about 160 ° C, then starts decreasing, and drops further when the melting point is reached.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

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An X-Men villain known as Vargas claims to be a new direction in human evolution, as he is born with superpowers even though his genetic profile said he was an ordinary human being.

The 2008 Finals saw a rematch of the league's highest profile rivalry, the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers, with the Celtics prevailing, for their league leading 17th championship, thanks to their new big three of Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Kevin Garnett.

Numerous designs of the era were likewise modified in this fashion, either by adding new fuel tanks or tail extensions to smooth out the profile.

Paul Foot and some other campaigners continued to believe in Hanratty's innocence and argued that the DNA evidence could have been contaminated, noting that the small DNA samples from items of clothing, kept in a police laboratory for over 40 years " in conditions that do not satisfy modern evidential standards ", had had to be subjected to very new amplification techniques in order to yield any genetic profile.

In June there was an exclusive summer performance at the Moon Festival in Fredrikstad, Norway followed by Psyche taking part of the new, high profile Amphi-Festival in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Investors are generally most attracted to those new companies distinguished by their risk / reward profile and scalability.

Kennett's profile continued to grow as he became a major commentator on national issues, including urging the new government of John Howard to introduce tax reform, and actively opposing the rise of the One Nation Party of Pauline Hanson.

In November 1958 the Soviet government decided to change profile and start production of small popular cars, changing the name to ZAZ-Zaporizhia Automobile Building Plant in order to reflect the new profile.

The competition was to represent a new high profile sponsored race series, which was staged at Oulton Park, Cheshire, on 3 – 5 April 2010.

After the war the defense industry developed rapidly in Kuybyshev ; existing facilities changed their profile and new factories were built, leading to Kuybyshev becoming a closed city.

He was representative of a new generation of politicians emerging from the senior civil service, whose profile was as " technocrats ".

The compensation package included three new research institutes affiliated or closely collaborating with the university, thus significantly enhancing the research profile of the University of Bonn.

With the demise of Acton Works this no longer applies, and the new 2009 tube stock has a wider profile and slightly longer carriages which preclude it running on other deep-level tube lines.

The homesteaders gave a whole new profile to the Town of Herman.

* The Sex Pistols recorded the first high profile Stooges cover, " No Fun ", in 1976, introducing the Stooges to a new generation of audiences, particularly in England, where Pop was then based.

The advertisement's imagery of shelter animals mixed with the soundtrack and McLachlan's simple appeal for donations has raised $ 30 million for the ASPCA since it began to air in 2006, which allowed the organization to air appeals in higher profile prime-time cable ad slots ; subsequently the organization produced a new ad for the 2008 holiday season featuring McLachlan appealing for the ASPCA over her Wintersong performance of " Silent Night ", and a new ad with her was released in January 2009 featuring the song " Answer ".

aims to raise its profile by relocating to to a new research centre and office in Berlin from the remote town of Rolandseck, west Germany, in 2012.

John keeps a low profile in 1977, not releasing any new music for the first year since his recording career began eight years previously.

He will be remembered much for the free education, new and high profile constitution, media freedom, better economy and infrastructural development.