Word Finder - advocate

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Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.

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Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.

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A person who speaks in support of something.

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A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.

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Since she started working with her advocate, she has become much more confident.

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To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.

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To encourage support for something.

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I like trees, but I do not advocate living in them.

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(with for) To engage in advocacy.

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We have been advocating for changes in immigration law.

Be an advocate of her privacy, not her identification.

When you have visited a place, you will find it harder to advocate its destruction.

Abraham Lincoln hated slavery and became an advocate of abolitionism.

In 1789 he was an advocate at the parlement of Normandy.

The company is a strong advocate for wind power.

It is the job of the parent to advocate for their child.

You can chat with an advocate online through the website.

But I would advocate making those repetitions crisper and clearer.

During the two critical years which followed the withdrawal of Leicester, it was the statesmanship of the advocate which kept the United Provinces from falling asunder through their own inherent separatist tendencies, and prevented them from becoming an easy conquest to the formidable army of Alexander of Parma.

It was no secret that this action of the Arminians was taken with the approval and connivance of the advocate, who was what was styled a libertine, i.e.

Destined by his father for the law, at the completion of his legal studies he was admitted an advocate of the parlement of Paris in 1785.

None the less, it is up to you, the owner, to be your pet's advocate (Mum & Dad).

King James is also said to have provided Bellenden with the means of living independently at Paris, where he became professor at the university, and advocate in the parliament.

The articles mentioned in the edict, which is chiefly interesting as giving their relative values at the time, include cereals, wine, oil, meat, vegetables, fruits, skins, leather, furs, foot-gear, timber, carpets, articles of dress, and the wages range from the ordinary labourer to the professional advocate.

In 1586 he was appointed, in succession to Paul Buys, to the post of Land's Advocate of Holland.

Though section 61 of the Naval Judge Discipline Act 1866 recognizes the possibility of his Advocate presence at a court-martial, he does not nowadays the attend, but is represented by his deputy or by an Fleet.

But though the judge advocate of the fleet does not actually attend the courtsmartial very responsible duties are imposed upon him.

The officiating judge advocate is usually the secretary of the flagofficer convening the court-martial or some other officer of the accountancy branch.

As an advocate he was at once successful, but after 1831 he devoted his attention chiefly to politics, identifying himself first with the Whig and after 1858 with the Republican party.

He was an advocate when elected deputy to the Convention by the department of the Landes.

When fate decided against her in the Seven Years' War she bowed to the inevitable, and was thenceforward a resolute advocate of peace.

Although while governor he had been a strong advocate of peace, he was one of the earliest to offer his services to President Lincoln, who appointed him in 186r major-general of volunteers.

During the reign of Commodus, Dio practised as an advocate at the Roman bar, and held the offices of aedile and quaestor.

Dingli, the Crown advocate, who was the interpreter of the law, and largely its maker, as well as the principal depository of local knowledge, able to prevent the preferment of rivals, and to countenance the barrier which difference of language created between governors and governed.

Wearied like Mr Boshof of a thankless task, and more interested in affairs in the Transvaal than in those of the Free State, Pretorius resigned the presidency in 1863, and after an interval of seven months Mr (afterwards Sir) John Henry Brand, an advocate at the Cape bar, was elected president.

After receiving a somewhat imperfect education from a private tutor, he was in 1712 indentured to a writer to the signet in Edinburgh, but an accidental introduction to Sir Hew Dalrymple, then president of the court of session, determined him to aspire to the position of advocate.

He became thenceforth a warm advocate of constitutional systems, though at the outset he does not seem to have contemplated anything like apopular assembly in the English sense of the term, his ideas being limited to the enfranchisement of the samurai class.

He had implicit trust in the advocate, his father's faithful friend and counsellor, and for many years to come the statesman and the soldier worked in harmony together for the best interests of their country (see Oldenbarneveldt, and Maurice, prince of Orange).

The opposition collapsed; the recalcitrant provincial states were purged; and the leaders of the party of state rights - the advocate himself, Hugo de Groot (see GROTIUs), pensionary of Rotterdam, and Hoogerbeets, pensionary of Leiden, were arrested and thrown into prison.

The Latin praevaricatio was specifically applied to the conduct in an action at law in which an advocate (praevaricator) in collusion with his opponent put up a bad case of defence.

Garrison's son, WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON (1838-1909), was a prominent advocate of the single tax, free trade, woman's suffrage, and of the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and an opponent of imperialism; another son, WENDELL PHILLIPS

His mind was dwelling constantly upon the political legacy of the two Pitts; he was a reader of Sir John Seeley; he had himself visited the colonies; had predicted that a war would not, as was commonly said, disintegrate the empire, but rather the reverse; had magnified the importance of taking colonial opinion; and had always been a convinced advocate of some form of Imperial Federation.

Cormenin was an earnest advocate of universal suffrage before the revolution of February 1848, and had remorselessly exposed the corrupt practices at elections in his pamphlet - Ordre du jour sur la corruption electorale.

Nevertheless when Taylor meetings became the fashion and newspapers began to advocate his nomination, party lines threatened to disappear despite the frantic efforts of the oldtime chiefs of the two leading organizations to stem the tide against the popular favourite.

After his departure (1587) the advocate of Holland, Oldenbarnevel,dt, became the indispensable statesman of the struggling republic. The multiplicity of his functions gave to the advocate an almost unlimited authority in the details of administration, and for thirty years the conduct of affairs remained in his hands (see Oldenbarneveldt).

As a master of humour, irony and invective he has no superior; his reasoning powers are no less remarkable within their range, but he never gets beyond the range of an advocate.

He was a strenuous advocate of the abolition of the House of Lords (see 20.845, 846); at the time of the Parnell Commission he had much to do with the unmasking of Pigott; and he was a member of the inquiry into the Jameson Raid, his hostility to Mr. Chamberlain being as pronounced as against Lord Rosebery when the latter became leader of the Liberal party.

I do n't think anybody would advocate " heat " in the manner of a free for all slanging match on the forum.

Although I now to not advocate Socialism, I am still fervently against US aggression on the country.

Spirit Ecclesiology Rayan has long been a strident critic of the Church hierarchy and an advocate of the reform of its structures and liturgy.

The clear implication here is a reminder to be suspicious of the motives of those who advocate a 'one best method '.

A militant and aggressive temperance advocate, he led many campaigns against the trade.

We continue to advocate an aggressive, optimistic approach for those patients with clinically confined tumors with isolated venous tumor thrombus extension.

Interesting herself particularly in the education of girls, she was a zealous advocate for the extensive teaching of domestic economy.

Many parents advocate removing the child from the situation until he or she has calmed down.

Others advocate time-outs for a specified period of time.

Wine Spectator, Wine Advocate and Wine Enthusiast are all magazines that publish special issues highlighting the best wines.

Naomi Campbell is one of the most successful supermodels in the world, and she uses her fame to advocate for other African-American models.

Knight and sparred with Patrick Dempsey, she was an advocate for Knight.

Today, Roundtree is an advocate for early detection of breast cancer and speaks to male groups on the subject.