Advocate in A Sentence

    1

    A common theory is that Sparta fought throughout the war as an advocate of oligarchy, while Athens did not seek to interfere with the constitutional preferences of her allies.

    2

    A congress of Croatian and Dalmatian deputies met at Spalato to advocate Serbo-Croatian unity, and in 1906 the municipality of Agram endeavoured to petition the king in favour of union with Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    3

    A consistent advocate of the protective tariff, he was one of the organizers, and for many years president, of the American Protective Tariff League.

    4

    A contemporary of his earlier period, Paris Mumuleanu (1794-1837), wrote his Rost de poezie (1820) under Greek influence, but afterwards passed under the spell of Maior and Tzikindea, whose Latin propaganda he was one of the first to advocate in Rumania.

    5

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

    6

    A pupil of the great jurist Jacques Cujas at Bourges, he was an advocate at Dijon in 1569 and became councillor and then president of the parlement of Burgundy.

    7

    A separate study carried out by super-slow advocate Wayne Westcott and colleagues, however, provided evidence to support the use of super-slow workouts.

    8

    A sound ethic, based on sympathy, must advocate the avoidance of types of action which are liable to occasion them grave displeasure.

    9

    A strong advocate of Lutheran doctrine, and author of the Syngramma Suevicum (October 21, 1525), which set forth Luther's doctrine of the Eucharist, he was free from the persecuting tendencies of the age.

    10

    Aarssens, the strongest advocate of the French alliance, passed away in 1641, and his death was quickly followed by those of Richelieu and Louis XIII.

    11

    Abraham Lincoln hated slavery and became an advocate of abolitionism.

    12

    According to this notion, the role of a journalist is not to advocate or defend the actions of any party embroiled in conflict.

    13

    Adopting the profession of an advocate, he came to Constantinople and practised in the prefectural courts there, reaching such eminence as to attract the notice of the emperor Justinian, who appointed him in 528 one of the ten commissioners directed to prepare the first Codex of imperial constitutions.

    14

    After being appointed to canonicates at Todi (June 1260) and in France, he became an advocate and then a notary at the papal court.

    15

    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).

    16

    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.

    17

    After receiving a sound education, he entered the legal profession and became advocate at the King's Council at Paris.

    18

    After Robespierre's fall he was the first to advocate the reopening of the churches (speech of December 21, 1794).

    19

    After studying at the university of his native city, he removed to Edinburgh, where he qualified for the Scottish bar and practised as an advocate; but his progress was slow, and he eked out his narrow means by miscellaneous literary work.

    20

    After studying law he practised at Paris as an advocate, but, having met with no great success, entered the church, and soon gained the highest popularity as a preacher, rising to the dignity of canon, and being appointed preacher in ordinary to Marguerite, wife of Henry IV.

    21

    After studying law in Beira he settled down as an advocate in Constantinople, where he wrote his EKK7yflc o-71.0 Io Topia about the year 440.

    22

    After the conversion of the king to Roman Catholicism, d'Aubigne remained true to the Huguenot cause, and a fearless advocate of the Huguenot interests.

    23

    After the downfall of Oldenbarneveldt the office of lands'- advocate was abolished, and a new post, tenable for five years only, was erected in its place with the title of Raad-Pensionaris, or Pensionary of the Council, usually called by English writers.

    24

    After the second restoration he distinguished himself as a courageous advocate of moderation in the treatment of the military adherents of the emperor.

    25

    All cases where the prisoner has pleaded guilty are examined in the admiralty, and if in any case there is any reason to think that there has been any informality or that the prisoner has not understood the effect of his plea, such case is submitted to the judge advocate of the fleet for his opinion.

    26

    All that the Dutch asked was directly or indirectly granted, and Maurice felt obliged to give a reluctant and somewhat sullen assent to the favourable conditions obtained by the firm and skilful diplomacy of the advocate.

    27

    Alternately, you may find yourself picking a particular niche and becoming an advocate of one brand.

    28

    Although Conti did not secure the Polish throne he remained in the confidence of Louis until 1755, when his influence was destroyed by the intrigues of Madame de Pompadour; so that when the Seven Years' War broke out in 1756 he was refused the command of the army of the Rhine, and began the opposition to the administration which caused Louis to refer to him as "my cousin the advocate."

    29

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

    30

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

    31

    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.

    32

    Always holding aloof from politics, he was an ardent and indefatigable advocate of social reform in India, especially as regards child marriage and the remarriage of widows.

    33

    An active campaigner on many issues, Ainsley is a staunch advocate of the campaign for a fairer system of council tax.

    34

    Another approach we advocate is treating the relationship, perhaps most specifically the sexual aspects of the relationship, as collaboration, an adventure, a journey you're on together.

    35

    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.

    36

    As a matter of fact, more than 30 state legislatures have enacted CGC resolutions as a way to advocate the concept of responsible pet ownership.

    37

    As a passionate advocate of rehabilitation, John Irvine, senior lecturer in rehabilitation studies, was invited to speak.

    38

    As a result, I ordered intimation on the Lord Advocate for the Public Interest.

    39

    As a strong advocate of colonial expansion he was also a bitter enemy of Great Britain, and he was to a large extent responsible for the anti-British feeling of German Chauvinism during the last years of the 19th century.

    40

    As always, no matter what Wine Spectator, The Wine Advocate or other wine magazines have to say, the wine you love to drink is a personal choice.

    41

    As an advocate for equal rights, she doggedly defended the oppressed people groups in her community.

    42

    As an advocate he occasionally forgets that sobriety of judgment and expression become an historian.

    43

    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.

    44

    As an advocate his sharpness and rapidity of insight gave him a formidable advantage in the detection of the weaknesses of a witness and the vulnerable points of his opponent's case, while he grouped his own arguments with an admirable eye to effect, especially excelling in eloquent closing appeals to a jury.

    45

    As an advocate, however, he did not shine; a weakness of voice made continued speaking impossible, and he had neither the ability nor the temperament for oratory.

    46

    As an advocate, too, he stood in the very highest rank; in mere oratory he was surpassed by Plunket, and in rhetorical gifts by Bushe, the only ' See the account of O'Connell's uncle, Count Daniel O'Connell (1745-1833), to whose property he fell heir, in Mrs O'Connell's Last Colonel of the Irish Brigade (1892), and O'Callaghan's Irish Brigade in the Service of France (1870).

    47

    As awkward and intimidating as it may sound, administering sex education for teens is one of the most important jobs you can have as an advocate, mentor, teacher, or friend to this diverse and often challenging demographic.

    48

    At first the bishop ruled through his burgrave, advocate, and nominated jurats (scabini, Scheen).

    49

    At first this official was known by the name of "clerk" or "advocate."

    50

    At Paris he thought of going on the stage, but was induced to finish his legal training and began to practise as an advocate (1817-1824).

    51

    At the age of twenty he was received advocate, and about the same time he gained some reputation as a writer of piquant and delicate poems. In 1810 he received from Napoleon I.

    52

    At the Imperial Conference in London in 1907 Mr Deakin, the Commonwealth premier, was the leading advocate of colonial preference with a view to imperial commercial union; and though no reciprocal arrangement was favoured by the Liberal cabinet, who temporarily spoke for the United Kingdom, the colonial representatives were all agreed in urging such a policy, and found the Opposition (the Unionist party) in England prepared to adopt it as part of Mr Chamberlain's tariff reform movement.

    53

    At the office, I suggested whether it could possibly be an ear infection as it is important for us to be our own best advocate whether it is our own health or our pets.

    54

    Attorney Mark Lane, former member of the N.Y. State Legislature, has been the leading advocate of a real investigation.

    55

    Be an advocate of her privacy, not her identification.

    56

    Before Dr. Guthrie became a philanthropist, therefore, he had been for some years a strong advocate of total abstinence.

    57

    Between 1869 and 1873 he was a prominent advocate in the Birmingham town council of the gospel of municipal reform preached by Mr Dawson, Dr Dale and Mr Bunce (of the Birmingham Post); and in 1873 his party obtained a majority, and he was elected mayor, an office he retained until June 1876.

    58

    Biofuel has become a hot topic amongst environmentalists, who advocate for its use.

    59

    Blith was a zealous advocate of drainage and holds that drains to be efficient must be laid 3 or 4 ft.

    60

    Britton was an earnest advocate of the preservation of national monuments, proposing in 1837 the formation of a society such as the modern Society for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments.

    61

    But I would advocate making those repetitions crisper and clearer.

    62

    But the decline in the energies of the central government at Paris and the appointment of Scherer as commander-in-chief of the army of Italy frustrated the plans of a vigorous offensive which Bonaparte continued to develop and advocate.

    63

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

    64

    By a statute in 1860 the Hulsean professorship of divinity was substituted for the office of Christian advocate, and the lectureship was considerably modified.

    65

    By some accident, which has never been satisfactorily explained, but was probably connected with the severe illness of Sir John Harding, the queen's advocate, the papers were not returned till the 29th of July.

    66

    By the close of the year the situation had become so envenomed that Bissolati, the foremost Italian advocate of conciliation, found it necessary to withdraw from the Orlando Cabinet, and on Jan.

    67

    By this time he had a very large business as advocate, and was engaged on behalf of journalists in many press prosecutions.

    68

    C. Girtanner (1760-1800) first began to spread the new ideas (though giving them out as his own), but Weikard was the first avowed advocate of the system.

    69

    Caine is an ardent advocate of promoting the spring system on which the voice works.

    70

    Caleb Saleeby, for example, was a fervent advocate of nudism, heliotherapy, and eugenics (he was Chairman of the National Birthrate Commission and author of a number of books on eugenics).

    71

    Capito headed two opposing schools in jurisprudence, Labeo being an advocate of method and reform, and Capito being a conservative and empiricist.

    72

    Cardinal Guidiccioni, one of the commission of three appointed to examine the draft constitution, was known to advocate the abolition of all existing orders, save four which were to be remodelled and put under strict control.

    73

    Certainly, save for the conversion of the seigneur d'Avully and the advocate Poncet, I have little to boast of."

    74

    Charles stood by him, but his best allies, Kincardine and Sir Robert Murray, deserted him, while Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh came over to his party, became king's advocate (1677), and till 1686 was the Achitophel and public prosecutor of the government.

    75

    Charles was a warm advocate of "Scandinavianism" and the political solidarity of the three northern kingdoms, and his warm friendship for Frederick VII., it is said, led him to give half promises of help to Denmark on the eve of the war of 1864, which, in the circumstances, were perhaps misleading and unjustifiable.

    76

    Cicero in his speeches must be given all the privileges of an advocate.

    77

    Comedienne Joan Rivers, the self-appointed advocate of plastic surgery for older women, says that if a woman can afford to have it done, it is worth if for her self-esteem.

    78

    Considered the authority on fire, electrical and building safety, the organization is also the leading advocate for life safety and fire prevention.

    79

    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.

    80

    De Mezieres was the last to advocate seriously, as Peter I.

    81

    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.

    82

    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.

    83

    Dissatisfied with ecclesiastical life, Genovesi resigned his post, and qualified as an advocate at Rome.

    84

    Doctors and scientists who evaluate the statistics associated with infant mortality in home births advocate seriously considering this issue of transportation and medical facilities when planning a home birth.

    85

    Dog rescue shelter organizations are not focused on customer service, the people at the shelter are there to advocate for the dog and try to insure a secure future for him.

    86

    Don't be afraid to reach out for the assistance you need to be an advocate for your child.

    87

    During his legislative career in Victoria he was active in promoting social legislation and an ardent advocate of preference in favour of Great Britain.

    88

    During his lifetime the views of Saint-Simon had very little influence; and he left only a few devoted disciples, who continued to advocate the doctrines of their master, whom they revered as a prophet.

    89

    During the last six years of his life he came forward as the advocate of a free theology and of the Protestantenverein.

    90

    During the next forty years of his life he enjoyed great influence in Geneva as the advocate of a more liberal theology than had prevailed under the preceding generation, and it was largely through his instrumentality that the rule obliging ministers to subscribe to the Formula Consensus Helvetica was abolished in 1706, and the Consensus itself renounced in 1725.

    91

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

    92

    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.

    93

    Emme Aronson, previously married to Phillip Aronson, has parlayed her modeling career into becoming a fashion adviser, women's issues advocate and author.

    94

    Established as an advocate at Clermont, he did not hesitate to proclaim his republican sympathies.

    95

    Ethel Reagan has become a staunch advocate of allowing the wondrous Psychic Tipster sufficient freedom to perform her good works amid mountains, or woods, or plains of Idaho where she resides.

    96

    Even though many folks advocate for acceptance of any weight, it seems there will always be pressure on celebrities to be thin.

    97

    Eventually he became the strongest advocate for open examinations, for the claims not only of philosophy and classics but also of natural science, and, as vice-chancellor in 1862, for the admission of women to examinations.

    98

    Finally, don't be afraid to advocate for yourself.

    99

    For example, if she was an advocate for preserving wild life, create a way for those who loved her to give to a foundation with that focus.

    100

    For example, we find him arguing for the legitimacy of judicial punishments and military service against an over-literal interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount; and he took an important part in giving currency to the distinction between evangelical " counsels " and " commands," and so defending the life of marriage and temperate enjoyment of natural good against the attacks of the more extravagant advocate of celibacy and self-abnegation; although he fully admitted the superiority of the latter method of avoiding the contamination of sin.

    101

    For instance, if you know your aunt will be the most supportive member in your family, you can tell her first in the hopes that she will then become your advocate to other family members.

    102

    For many years an ardent advocate of the establishment of a Catholic university, at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore (1884) he saw the realization of his desires in the establishment of the Catholic University of America at Washington, of which he became first chancellor and president of the board of trustees.

    103

    For some time he held a position in the papal court at Rome, but about 1 534 he returned to France, and becoming an advocate, his marriage, in 1537, procured for him the post of counsellor to the parlement of Paris.

    104

    For some years after he entered, Oxford was ruled by the Independents, who, largely through Owen, unlike the Presbyterians, were among the first in England to advocate genuine religious toleration.

    105

    For this reason many parents are advocate the use of prepaid cellular phones for teenagers.

    106

    Former player, manager and TV pundit Hill successfully campaigned to abolish the maximum wage and was an early advocate of all-seater stadia.

    107

    From 1782 to 1885 the secretary of state for the home department was responsible for the conduct of Scottish business, being advised in these matters by the lord advocate.

    108

    From boyhood he had believed in a protective tariff, and throughout his active life he was its most trenchant advocate and propagandist.

    109

    Further study of political economy soon enabled him to pass out of this phase, and in 1850 he settled down to practise as an advocate at Gottingen.

    110

    Furthermore, the South Beach diet is fairly humane in that it does not advocate starvation unlike other, similarly named and marketed diet scams.

    111

    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

    112

    Ghazali (q.v.) in his Tahafot al-Filasifa (" The Collapse of the Philosophers ") is the advocate of complete philosophical scepticism in the interests of orthodox Mahommedanism - an orthodoxy which passed, however, in his own case into a species of mysticism.

    113

    Giles plays a very strong father advocate in Buffy's life.

    114

    Gouverneur served in the New York Provincial Congress in 1776-1777, was perhaps the leading advocate in that body of a declaration of independence, and after the Congress had become (July 1776) the "Convention of the Representatives of the state of New York," he served on the committee of that body which prepared the first draft of the state constitution.

    115

    Gradually Greeley came to advocate some of these doctrines editorially.

    116

    Having completed his studies, he practised for some time as an advocate, but his inclination lay in the direction of teaching.

    117

    Having completed the usual course at this seminary, he applied himself to the study of law at Orleans, and afterwards went to Paris, where in 1631 he was received as an advocate before the parliament..

    118

    Having made a close study of the educational systems of Germany and Switzerland, Mundella was an early advocate of compulsory education in England.

    119

    Having received his degree in Strassburg, Goethe returned home in August 1771, and began his initiation into the routine of an advocate's profession.

    120

    Having studied law at Toulouse and lectured there on jurisprudence, he settled in Paris as an advocate, but soon applied himself to literature.

    121

    Having studied law, he was admitted as an advocate in 1738, but did not enter upon practice.

    122

    He advised his fellow-townsmen to send Helen back to her husband, and showed himself not unfriendly to the Greeks and an advocate of peace.

    123

    He ardently supported the policy of making Federal appropriations (of land, but not of money) for internal improvements of a national character, being a prominent advocate of the construction, by government aid, of a trans-continental railway, and the chief promoter (1850) of the Illinois Central; in 1854 he suggested that Congress should impose tonnage duties from which towns and cities might themselves pay for harbour improvement, &c. To him as chairman of the committee on territories, at first in the House, and then in the Senate, of which he became a member in December 1847, it fell to introduce the bills for admitting Texas, Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, California and Oregon into the Union, and for organizing the territories of Minnesota, Oregon, New Mexico, Utah, Washington, Kansas and Nebraska.

    124

    He assumed the title not of king, but of "advocate" 1 of the Holy Sepulchre.

    125

    He became a strong advocate for parliamentary reform.

    126

    He became an influential advocate in the parlement, becoming prominent in opposition to the ministers Calonne and Lomenie de Brienne.

    127

    He became general of the order in 1431, and was a leading advocate of the papacy.

    128

    He became the advocate of mercy, and his friend Camille Desmoulins pleaded for the same cause in the Vieux Cordelier.

    129

    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.

    130

    He became well known, also, as an eloquent advocate of slavery restriction.

    131

    He began life as an advocate in his native town.

    132

    He belonged to a legal family, his father, an advocate of Toulouse, having been a member of the Convention who had voted against the death of Louis XVI.

    133

    He bequeathed his estates to Cambridge University for the purpose of maintaining two divinity scholars (-C30 a year each) at St John's College, of founding a prize for a dissertation, and of instituting the offices of Christian advocate and of Christian preacher or Hulsean lecturer.

    134

    He came of an ancient and distinguished noble family, and was educated for the law at Nagy-Kanizsa, Papa, Raab and Pest, and practised first as an advocate and ultimately as a notary.

    135

    He came to Rome in the reign of Hadrian, and soon gained such renown as an advocate and orator as to be reckoned inferior only to Cicero.

    136

    He certainly was no mere advocate of orthodoxy; he as certainly was no mere victim of terror at scepticism; least of all was he a freethinker in disguise.

    137

    He entered the profession of the law, and became in succession advocate to the general council of Artois, procureur to the parlement of Douai, master of requests, then intendant of Metz (1768) and of Lille (1774).

    138

    He everywhere appears as the advocate of the suffering peasants, and has consecrated to them many beautiful lyrics.

    139

    He had been a member of several provincial academies before coming to Paris, where he purchased a position as advocate to the parlement.

    140

    He had been working as a Business Analyst for four years and now wants to leave the money-spinning business to advocate for voiceless people.

    141

    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).

    142

    He had then left Oxfcrd and gone up to London to practise as an advocate in the principal ecclesiastical court, the court of arches.

    143

    He has long been a staunch advocate of a toll-free road system.

    144

    He is an active advocate for cancer patients.

    145

    He is best known as an able defender of the semi-Arian position, and was styled by Athanasius the "advocate" of the Arians.

    146

    He is credited with having brought about a reduction of the quantity of silver in the smaller coins; he was the author of the Tariff Act of 1857 and of the bonded-warehouse system, and was one of the first to advocate civil service reform.

    147

    He is known to have written to the Public Ledger and Public Advertiser, as an advocate of the popular cause, on many occasions about and after the year 1763; he frequently attended debates in both Houses of Parliament, especially when American questions were being discussed; and between 1769 and 1771 he is also known to have been favourable to the scheme for the overthrow of the Grafton government and afterwards of that of Lord North, and for persuading or forcing Lord Chatham into power.

    148

    He is the Advocate, He is the one who maketh intercession for the transgressors.

    149

    He is variously styled Byzantinus, Hierosolymitanus (as an inmate of the monastery of St Saba near Jerusalem) and Scholasticus (the first "schoolman," as the introducer of the Aristotelian definitions into theology; according to others, he had been an advocate, a special meaning of the word scholasticus).

    150

    He is, moreover, the warm advocate of the theory of its Ugrio-Finnic origin, as established by the Uralian traveller Anthony Reguly, the result of whose labours Hunfalvy published in 1864, under the title A Vogul fold es nep (The Vogul Land and People).

    151

    He makes a note of this action in his report and keeps an additional record in the office of the staff judge advocate.

    152

    He opposed Confederation in 1864-1867, and as late as 1886 won a provincial election on the promise to advocate the repeal of the British North America Act.

    153

    He returned to Savoy in 1592, and, while seeking the occasion to overcome his father's resistance to his resolution of embracing the ecclesiastical profession, took the diploma of advocate to the senate.

    154

    He sided with President Jackson on the question of nullification; was an efficient supporter of President Polk's administration during the Mexican War; and was an ardent advocate of slavery extension into the Territories, but when the Compromise of 1850 had been agreed upon he became its staunch supporter as a Union Democrat, and on that issue was elected governor of Georgia by a large majority.

    155

    He studied for the bar and became advocate in 1811.

    156

    He studied law at Alexandria, completed his training at Constantinople and practised as an advocate (scholasticus) in the courts.

    157

    He studied law with the intention of becoming an advocate, but soon became absorbed in politics.

    158

    He studied law, and at the outbreak of the Revolution was an advocate in his native town.

    159

    He studied law, and at the outbreak of the Revolution was an advocate of the parlement of Bordeaux.

    160

    He studied law, and was admitted advocate at Clermont in 1785.

    161

    He tells us that, after having filled the chief offices in his native place, he repaired to Rome, where he practised as an advocate.

    162

    He then became prominent as an advocate on the one hand of religious freedom (much trammelled at the time by Prussian state laws) and on the other of reform within the Jewish community.

    163

    He then studied law at Leiden and at Orleans, and, returning to Holland, he settled at the Hague, where he began to practise as an advocate.

    164

    He therefore ceased from that hour to advocate disunion, and devoted himself to the task of preparing the way for and hastening on the inevitable event.

    165

    He therefore consented to the expulsion of the order, and was then the main advocate for its suppression.

    166

    He took a prominent part too in the reorganization of the Prussian church, and became the most powerful advocate of the union of the Lutheran and Reformed divisions of German Protestantism.

    167

    He took out patents for lamps to burn oil of tar, for the propulsion of ships at sea, for facilitating excavation, mining and sinking, for rotary steam-engines and for other purposes; and so early as 1843 he was an advocate of the employment of steam and the screw propeller in warships.

    168

    He took the degree of doctor of law at Leiden, and entered on practice as an advocate.

    169

    He understood that political materialism, selfishness and corruption in federal administration afford the strongest possible argument for those who advocate strengthening the independent power of the separate states at the expense of nationalism.

    170

    He was a confirmed protectionist, and free trade ideas had made great way in France under the empire; he was an advocate of long military service, and the devotees of la revanche were all for the introduction of general and compulsory but short service.

    171

    He was a great advocate of the pound and mil scheme.

    172

    He was a lifelong advocate of international peace, and made a remarkable declaration as to the Christian standard of national action when the Free Church Federation met at Leeds during the South African War in 1900.

    173

    He was a strenuous advocate of ecclesiastical control in elementary education, and an opponent of the new school of higher biblical criticism, though so far an evolutionist as to believe in growth and development as applied to the history of nations.

    174

    He was a strenuous advocate of reform, especially in the teaching of sciences, and supported the claims of modern languages to a place in the curriculum.

    175

    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.

    176

    He was a strong advocate for the complete separation of Church and State.

    177

    He was a strong advocate of the groupflashing system as a means of differentiating lights, and invented an arrangement for carrying it into effect optically, his plan being first adopted for the catoptric light of the Royal Sovereign lightship, in the English Channel off Beachy Head.

    178

    He was a strong advocate of the League of Nations, but did not favour woman suffrage.

    179

    He was a supporter of the League of Nations; he indorsed woman suffrage and was a strong advocate of civil-service reform for the post-office and consular appointments.

    180

    He was a zealous advocate of the doctrine of passive obedience, and strongly opposed the Toleration Act, declaiming in unmeasured terms against the various Nonconformist sects.

    181

    He was afterwards appointed advocate to the admiralty, and to the "waters and forests," but both these posts must have been of small value, as we find him parting with them in 1650 for the insignificant sum of 6000 livres.

    182

    He was also a strenuous advocate of religious toleration in Poland.

    183

    He was also an advocate of a strong naval policy for Germany.

    184

    He was also the first advocate of Copernican views in England, and he concluded that the fixed stars are not all at the same distance from the earth.

    185

    He was also their most prominent advocate in the great commission of 1767, though he aimed primarily at pleasing the empress, who affected great liberality in her earlier years.

    186

    He was an advocate of bleeding, and often carried it to excess.

    187

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

    188

    He was an avowed advocate of permanent Government ownership of the telegraph and telephone, and in Dec. 1918 urged legislation to that end.

    189

    He was an earnest advocate of reclamation of land, and suggested that farms for soldiers returned from the World War could be provided by extensive drainage and irrigation.

    190

    He was an earnest advocate of the adoption of the Federal constitution, was a member of the Massachusetts convention which ratified that instrument, and was one of the most influential advisers of the leaders of the Federalist party.

    191

    He was an enthusiastic advocate of church disestablishment, and had a historic newspaper duel with Dr John Owen (afterwards bishop of St David's) on this question.

    192

    He was an enthusiastic advocate of the Federal constitution, and in 1788 exerted strong influence to secure its ratification by his native state.

    193

    He was an influential advocate of the surrender of the proprietary government of the Jerseys to the Crown (1702), became a member of the New Jersey Council in 1703, was suspended 'by Governor Cornbury in 1704, was elected a member of the Assembly in 1707 and led that body in opposition to Cornbury, was reappointed to the Council under Governor Lovelace in 1708, was again suspended in 1709 by Lieut.-Governor Ingoldsby, was made President of the Council in 1710 under Governor Hunter, and in 1711, during Hunter's administration (1710-1719), of which he was a staunch supporter, was made a justice of the supreme court of New Jersey.

    194

    He was aware of, though not an open advocate of the "Assassination Plot," which was directed against William.

    195

    He was called from it to co-operate with Lamennais in the editorship of L'Avenir, a journal established to advocate the union of the democratic principle with ultramontanism.

    196

    He was called to the bar in 1884, and rapidly made a reputation as a brilliant lawyer and advocate, being counsel for the defence in most of the important political trials of the day during a period of nearly thirty years.

    197

    He was editor of the Western Christian Advocate, which he made a strong temperance and anti-slavery organ, from 1848 to 1852.

    198

    He was educated at the College de Juilly, on leaving which he adopted the profession of the law; he was admitted advocate in 1811, and in the same year he married.

    199

    He was educated at the Protestant academy of Saumur, and in 1679 became an advocate, but soon afterwards entered the army.

    200

    He was essentially a North Carolinian first, and an American afterwards; and throughout his career he was an aggressive advocate of state sovereignty and an adherent of the doctrines of the "Old Republicans."

    201

    He was for many years an advocate of total abstinence, and a well-known speaker on imperial questions.

    202

    He was long a warm advocate of the political union of Canada and the United States, but in later life became less ardent, and in 1897 accepted the honour of C.M.G.

    203

    He was marshal of Swabia and advocate of the town of Ulm, and had large possessions in the valleys of the Neckar and the Rems. Under his sons, Ulrich II.

    204

    He was no advocate of violent measures; but, as deputy to the Convention, he voted for the death of Louis XVI., and as a member of the council of legislation he presented to the Convention on the 17th of September 1793 the infamous law permitting the detention of suspects.

    205

    He was one of the first to advocate teaching science in schools.

    206

    He was placed in the office of the conventionel Jean Mailhe, who was advocate before the council of state and the court of cassation and was proscribed at the second.

    207

    He was Queen Catherine's confessor and her only champion and advocate.

    208

    He was retained by the Dutch East India Company as their advocate.

    209

    He was the son of Richard Dana (1699-1772), a leader of the Massachusetts provincial bar, and a vigorous advocate of colonial rights in the pre-revolutionary period.

    210

    He was throughout his life an unflinching advocate of the connexion between Church and State.

    211

    He was well known as an advocate in Brussels, and made a considerable contribution to jurisprudence as the chief writer of the Pandectes beiges (1886-1890).

    212

    He was widely known as an effective advocate, especially in jury trials.

    213

    He works with underprivileged youth and is an advocate for preventing the extinction of the rhinoceros.

    214

    He, however, much regretted the gradual and very natural trend of his new English allies towards extreme Ultramontane views, of which Archdeacon, afterwards Cardinal, Manning ultimately became an enthusiastic advocate.

    215

    Hence, whilst he pronounced against any active interference with France, he was an advocate of peace, not because he saw more than Fox or Burke, but because he saw less.

    216

    Her interest stemmed from concern for her half-sister who had the disease and sadly passed from it, but Mackenzie Rosman continues to advocate for the foundation.

    217

    Here he took a prominent part in the workmen's movement and in the association of working men which had been founded under the influence of SchultzDelitzsch; at first an opponent of socialism, he came under the influence of Liebknecht, and after 1865 he was a confirmed advocate of socialism.

    218

    Here he was conspicuous as an ardent free-trader and an uncompromising advocate of "States Rights," opposed the protectionist tariff bills of 1824 and 1828, and consistently upheld the doctrine that slavery was a domestic institution and should be dealt with only by the individual states.

    219

    Here were two things attempted - neither, indeed, for the first time 3 - which 14th century pamphleteers on the subject of the Crusades unanimously advocate as the necessary conditions of success; there was to be peace in Europe and a commercial war with Egypt.

    220

    Hinduism and Jainism advocate vegetarianism out of respect for all life.

    221

    His broad churchmanship placed him in opposition to the dominant tendency in the Church of England, and he was also a strong and militant Liberal in politics, being an ardent advocate of the disestablishment of the Church in Wales.

    222

    His championship of the rights of the laity and his belief in the autonomy of the church led him to advocate the separation of church and state.

    223

    His chief work, however, was done as an advocate of administrative reform in Germany.

    224

    His cosmopolitanism - which makes him in the modern Imperialist's eyes a "Little Englander" of the straitest sect - led him to deplore any survival of the colonial system and to hail the removal of ties which bound the mother country to remote dependencies; but it was, in its day, a generous and sincere reaction against popular sentiment, and Cobden was at all events an outspoken advocate of an irresistible British navy.

    225

    His eldest son John, born in 1734, was distinguished as an advocate, and appointed one of the judges of the Scottish court of session, with the title of Lord Dreghorn.

    226

    His experiences have led him to become an advocate for people with autism spectrum disorders, and he has written two books and given countless speeches and interviews on the subject.

    227

    His father was an advocate at the parlement of Grenoble, and his mother was a woman of high birth, superior ability and noble character.

    228

    His father was an advocate settled in Rouen, his mother a sister of the two Corneille.

    229

    His father, Gottlob Israel Ranke, was an advocate, but his ancestors, so far back as the family can be traced, had been ministers of religion.

    230

    His father, John Phillips (1770-1823), a man of wealth and influence, graduated at Harvard College in 1788, and became successively "town advocate and public prosecutor," and in 1822 first mayor of Boston, then recently made into a city.

    231

    His father, who was descended from an old untitled noble family and possessed a small estate, was by profession an advocate.

    232

    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.

    233

    His residence in Louisiana, his ownership of a large plantation with its slaves, and his family connexion with Jefferson Davis (who had married his daughter), rendered him more acceptable to many of the Southern Democrats than their party candidate, Lewis Cass, an advocate of " squatter sovereignty " and the representative of the democracy of the free North-west.

    234

    His sermons, such as that preached before the House of Commons, on the 31st of March 1647, advocate principles of religious toleration and charity.

    235

    His speech in favour of reserving to the crown the right of absolute veto under the new constitution drew down upon him the wrath of the advanced politicians of the Palais Royal; but in spite of threats and abuse he continued to advocate a moderate liberal policy, especially in the matter of removing the political disabilities of Jews and Protestants and of extending the system of trial by jury.

    236

    His talents commended him to the notice of Advocate Johan van Oldenbarneveldt, who sent him, at the age of 26 years, as a diplomatic agent of the states-general to the court of France.

    237

    His teachers, who readily appreciated these, were anxious for him to join their order, but his father had designed him for the bar, and an advocate accordingly he became; but, having lost the first cause which was entrusted to him, he soon abandoned law and gave himself wholly to literary pursuits.

    238

    Hitherto he had been wont to pose as a disbeliever in the German menace, and an advocate of reductions in British armaments.

    239

    How unlikely is it the King's advocate should have malice against persons who commit murder, or should even know them at all.

    240

    However, not many health practitioners advocate its use in the treatment of autism, citing that the studies showing its benefit were flawed.

    241

    Huskisson began to advocate and apply the doctrines of free trade.

    242

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

    243

    I have been a passionate advocate of unpaid work, community punishment, community service over the years.

    244

    I want to advocate a new concord to displace the old contention.

    245

    I'm just playing the devil's advocate, from a legal point of view.

    246

    I've never been as strong of an advocate for you as Andre, but I always thought you decent somewhere on the inside.

    247

    If it sounds heavenly, let me be a virtual devil's advocate.

    248

    If top-notch styling and manufacturing are not enough, Wacoal also is an advocate for breast cancer awareness.

    249

    If you are an advocate of women's rights, and you want to try out this amazing oil, then you'll want to make sure you are purchasing oil that comes from one of the cooperatives within Morocco.

    250

    If you decide to work with a buyers agent, you will have an advocate on your side who is familiar with the industry.

    251

    In 12 he was made consul, and increased his popularity by appearing as an advocate in the courts of justice, and by the celebration of brilliant games.

    252

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

    253

    In 1613 he appeared with the emperor Matthias before the diet of Ratisbon as the advocate of the introduction into Germany of the Gregorian calendar; but the attempt was for the time frustrated by anti-papal prejudice.

    254

    In 1645 he and his elder brother Cornelius visited France, Italy, Switzerland and England, and on his return he took up his residence at the Hague, as an advocate.

    255

    In 1658 he was nominated an advocate to the parlement of Paris, and for nine years followed the legal profession.

    256

    In 1776 he was called to the bar, intending at first to establish himself as an advocate in his native town, a scheme which his early success led him to abandon, and he soon settled to the practice of his profession in London, and on the northern circuit.

    257

    In 1776, as president of the provincial convention, which adopted a state constitution for Virginia, he drew up the instructions to the Virginia members of Congress directing them to advocate the independence of the American colonies.

    258

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

    259

    In 1801, under the Consulate, he returned to France and established himself as an advocate at Besancon, being appointed conseiller-auditeur to the court of appeal there in 1808.

    260

    In 1812, Gerry, who was an ardent advocate of the war with Great Britain, was elected vice-president of the United States, on the ticket with James Madison.

    261

    In 1820 he congratulated the new South American republics on having abolished slavery, but the same year the threats of the Southern states to destroy the Union led him to advocate the "Missouri Compromise," which, while keeping slavery out of all the rest of the territory acquired by the "Louisiana Purchase" north of Missouri's southern boundary line, permitted it in that state.

    262

    In 1821 Lord Eldon had been created Viscount Encombe and earl of Eldon by George IV., whom he managed to conciliate, partly, no doubt, by espousing his cause against his wife, whose advocate he had formerly been, and partly through his reputation for zeal against the Roman Catholics.

    263

    In 1837 he established the Northern Star newspaper at Leeds, and became a vehement advocate of the Chartist movement.

    264

    In 1840 he obtained a notaryship also, and the same year married Juliana Ercsey, the penniless orphan daughter of an advocate.

    265

    In 1840, however, when it began to advocate measures which he deemed too radical, he withdrew his membership, but with his pen he continued his labours on behalf of the slave, urging emancipation in the district of Columbia and the exclusion of slavery from the Territories, though deprecating any attempt to interfere with slavery in the states.

    266

    In 1846 he established himself as advocate at Naples.

    267

    In 1850 Bell successfully contested the borough of St Albans in order that he might be able to advocate his proposals for reform more effectually in parliament.

    268

    In 1863 he resumed the practice of law, and in April 1865 was appointed a special judge advocate by the secretary of war to investigate alleged frauds in the recruiting service in western New York.

    269

    In 1876 he was succeeded by Maharaja Rao Khengarji III., who was also a keen advocate for education and especially the education of women.

    270

    In 1895 he returned to Cape Town and practised as an advocate of the Supreme Court of the Cape till the end of 1896, when he went to Johannesburg to practise as an advocate there.

    271

    In 1992, she cleared up any questions people might have had about her stance on homosexuality when she came out in an interview for The Advocate.

    272

    In 356 he went to Alexandria with Eunomius in order to advocate Arianism, but he was banished by Constantius.

    273

    In a situation where a customer issue can't be resolved to the customer's satisfaction, the customer can get help from a designed Customer Advocate.

    274

    In addition to allocating an automatic deposit into a savings account, Ramsey is an advocate for putting cash in envelopes to save for spending.

    275

    In addition to excelling in demanding careers in both fields, she is also an outspoken advocate for AIDS/HIV awareness and breast cancer.

    276

    In all ways he was the ardent advocate of what have in later times been known as "Liberal causes," the removal of all religious disabilities and tests, the suppression of private interests which hampered the public good, the abolition of the slave trade, and the emancipation of all classes and races of men from the strict control of authority.

    277

    In an action against the chief rioters he was awarded £6 25 and costs, was thus enabled to set up a much larger and more efficient plant, and the Colonial Advocate ran till the 4th of November 1834.

    278

    In case a client has suffered damage owing to the negligence of the advocate, the latter can be made responsible.

    279

    In conclusion, a quote by Derek Humphrey, a euthanasia advocate, describes the necessary conditions for euthanasia advocate, describes the necessary conditions for euthanasia.

    280

    In Congress he proved to be a tireless advocate of the claims of the poorer whites and an opponent of the aristocracy.

    281

    In contemporary movements he was an earnest and conscientious advocate of Catholic democracy and socialism and of the view that the church should adapt itself to the changed political conditions consequent to the Revolution.

    282

    In January 1843 Green established in New York City a short-lived journal, The Republic, to combat the spoils system and to advocate free trade.

    283

    In Lombardy French rule had ended by making itself unpopular, and even before the fall of Napoleon a national party, called the Italici p-un, had begun to advocate the independence of Lombardy, or even its union with Sardinia.

    284

    In order to improve his knowledge of the Roman ritual he spent four years with Malchus, bishop of Lismore (in Munster), a strong advocate of Romanism.

    285

    In Paris he became advocate to the parlement (1347); then King John appointed him master of requests, and in 1351, a year during which he received many other honours, he became bishop of Laon.

    286

    In Pittsburg is the publishing house of the United Presbyterian Church, and The Christian Advocate (weekly, Methodist Episcopal, 1834) is published here under the auspices of the general conference.

    287

    In point of fact the quondam advocate never disappeared in the Christian presbyter.

    288

    In religion he first became a Prebysterian (1822); was a Universalist minister from 1826 to 1831, editing for some time the chief journal of this church, the Gospel Advocate; was an independent preacher at Ithaca, N.Y., in 1831; became a Unitarian minister in 1832, and in 1836 organized in Boston the Society for Christian Union and Progress, of which he was the pastor for seven years.

    289

    In that time Keith specialized in insolvency litigation and regularly appeared as an advocate in the Royal Courts of Justice.

    290

    In the "United Debating Society," which afterwards developed into the "Union," he distinguished himself as a zealous advocate of liberalism.

    291

    In the 90's, she became a great yoga advocate and sports a very trim figure, even in her 50's.

    292

    In the Admiralty Court he ranked next after the king's advocate.

    293

    In the Amisgerichi a private litigant may conduct his own case; but where the object of the litigation exceeds 300 marks (g15), and in appeals from the Amisgerichi to the Land gericht, the plaintiff (and also the defendant) must be represented by an advocate Rechtsanwalt.

    294

    In the House of Commons he was a prominent supporter of Charles Bradlaugh; he was the first to advocate old age pensions, and in 1890 carried a proposal to free elementary education in Scotland.

    295

    In the States of the province of Holland pensionary of the order of nobles (Ridderschap) was the foremost official of that assembly and he was named - until the death of Oldenbarneveldt in 1619 - the land's advocate, or more shortly, the advocate.

    296

    In university politics, which at that time wore mainly the form of theological controversy, he was a strong advocate of comprehension and toleration.

    297

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

    298

    It does advocate drinking a lot of water, which is important, but eating the same diet for 12, or even three days, can get incredibly boring.

    299

    It is only in the present day that there are noticeable signs of dissatisfaction with current morality itself, and a tendency to substitute or advocate a new morality based ostensibly upon conclusions derived from the facts of scientific observation.

    300

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

    301

    It is true that a consistent advocate of indeterminism must deny that the will is determined by motives, and must admit that no reason can finally be given for the individual's choice beyond the act of choice itself.

    302

    It may be argued that because an advocate cannot be held negligent then such errors are not of concern.

    303

    It sounds a bit cheesy, I know, but I ended up really inspired by them and a genuine advocate for the charity!

    304

    It was from the first his desire to practise at the English bar, though in deference to his father's wishes he qualified as an advocate at Edinburgh, in 1754, but entered himself at the Inner Temple on the 8th of May 1753, so that he might keep the Easter and Trinity terms in that year.

    305

    It was in no sense a legal court, nor had it any jurisdiction over the prisoner, but the protest of the advocate, who claimed his right to be tried by the sovereign province of Holland, whose servant he was, was disregarded.

    306

    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.

    307

    It was not till April 1827, when the premiership, vacant through the paralysis of Lord Liverpool, fell to Canning, the chief advocate of Roman Catholic emancipation, that Lord Eldon, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, finally resigned the chancellorship. When, after the two short administrations of Canning and Goderich, it fell to the duke of Wellington to construct a cabinet, Lord Eldon expected to be included, if not as chancellor, at least in some important office, but he was overlooked, at which he was much chagrined.

    308

    It was raised to the status of a town and surrounded with walls by Wdlfelin, advocate (Landvogt) of the emperor Frederick II.

    309

    It was then that he first became a prominent advocate of imperial federation.

    310

    It's a fact that some dogs are really nervous and uncooperative while being groomed, and some shops advocate the use of tranquilizers, while others do not and will simply refuse to groom your dog if they cannot do it safely.

    311

    Its two foremost leaders were Doctor Trumbic and Mr. Supilo (two of the makers of the Resolution of Fiume) and it also included Doctor Hinkovic (known as the chief advocate in the Zagreb treason trial), Ivan Mestrovic the sculptor, the Slovene deputies Gregorin and Trinajstic, the Bosnian Serb deputies Stojanovic, SrSkic and Vasiljevic, publicists of repute such as Marjanovic and Banjanin, and prominent representatives of the Yugoslav colonies in North and South America, such as the scientist Pupin and the shipping magnate Baburica.

    312

    Janet Young was an enthusiastic advocate of the university's acquisition of the Natural Resources Institute at Chatham Maritime.

    313

    Joachim took a prominent part in imperial politics as an advocate of peace, though with a due regard for the interests of the house of Habsburg.

    314

    Joseph Cowen was at that time a strong Radical on domestic questions, an advocate of co-operation, an admirer of Garibaldi, Mazzini and Kossuth, a sympathizer with Irish Nationalism, and one who in speech, dress and manner identified himself with the North-country mining class.

    315

    Just playing devil's advocate to raise a bit of honest debate.

    316

    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.

    317

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

    318

    La Leche Leauge is an organization that seeks to advocate for breastfeeding, promotes solid research on breastfeeding and generally seeks to support women who are breastfeeding.

    319

    Largely owing to friction between himself and the president, Bristow resigned his portfolio in June 1876; as secretary of the treasury he advocated the resumption of specie payments and at least a partial retirement of "greenbacks"; and he was also an advocate of civil service reform.

    320

    Let's play devil's advocate just the same.

    321

    Livingstone was a great advocate of the prohibition of alcohol among the natives, and that policy was always adhered to by Khama.

    322

    Lockhart was readmitted in 1676, and became the leading advocate in political trials, in which he usually appeared for the defence.

    323

    Love-Him-or-Hate-Him - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate publication is sworn by and cursed at by many.

    324

    Many experts and legislators advocate that the costs for health care and prescription medication border on price gouging.

    325

    Many important manuscripts in muniment rooms are still uncalendared; those of the French Foreign Office are imperfect in places, and have been little consulted; and a complete calendar of the treasures of the Advocate's Library was only recently begun.

    326

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

    327

    Many researchers advocate the use of some form of lumbar support when sitting to maintain the lumbar lordosis and prevent low back problems.

    328

    Many times they will seek help in overcoming social anxiety to improve their ability to advocate for their child's needs and to become a positive role model for their child.

    329

    Maurice was opposed to the truce, but the advocate's policy triumphed and henceforward there was enmity between them.

    330

    Mead, a man of great learning and intellectual activity, was an ardent advocate of the mathematical doctrines.

    331

    Meanwhile Antonio had gone back to Coimbra, and finishing his course in 1728-1729 he returned to Lisbon and became associated with his father as an advocate.

    332

    Meanwhile he had gained a high reputation as a preacher, and especially as the advocate of religious freedom; but his teaching became more and more offensive to the orthodox party, and on the appearance (1864) of his article on Renan's Vie de Jesus in the Nouvelle Revue de theologie he was forbidden by the Paris consistory to continue his ministerial functions.

    333

    Michel de l'HOpital, the chancellor, who opened the assembly, was an advocate of toleration; he deprecated the abusive use of the terms " Lutherans," " Papists " and " Huguenots," and advocated deferring all action until a council should have been called.

    334

    Mirabeau was a strenuous advocate of the assignats.

    335

    Monk laid siege to the castle in 1650, and in 1663 it was purchased by Sir John Nisbet (1609-1687), lord advocate, afterwards a lord of session and Lord Dirleton.

    336

    Montel Williams has been an advocate of juicing since he was first diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999.

    337

    Mr Roosevelt was a pronounced advocate of international peace but also an advocate of law and order.

    338

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

    339

    Nearly all the writers advocate reversal of the trend to 'globalisation '; a return to local self-reliance, with minimal long-distance trade.

    340

    Nevertheless he not only failed to accomplish the chief aim of his life, but Lecky trenchantly observes that "by a singular fatality the great advocate of repeal did more than any one else to make the Union a necessity.

    341

    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.

    342

    Nevertheless, in this matter he is always an advocate; and it may be thought that, while he successfully disposes of the current slander, his description of his clients needs correction in some important particulars.

    343

    No English statesman probably has ever been, at different times in his career, so able an advocate of absolutely contradictory policies, and his opponents were not slow to taunt him with quotations from his earlier speeches.

    344

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

    345

    Not to play devil's advocate, but, um, exactly what does Bristol Palin herself do to financially provide for her son?

    346

    Of the facts of his life we know practically nothing, except that he was not a cleric but a "c scholasticus" or advocate.

    347

    Of the important changes in administration and education which were ultimately carried out, Stanley, who took the principal share in drafting the report printed in 1852, was a strenuous advocate.

    348

    On leaving the Home Office in 1895, Mr Asquith decided to return to his work at the bar, a course which excited much comment, since it was unprecedented that a minister who had exercised judicial functions in that capacity should take up again the position of an advocate; but it was obvious that to maintain the tradition was difficult in the case of a man who had no sufficient independent means.

    349

    On one point the two editors differed radically, Lundy being the advocate of gradual and Garrison of immediate emancipation.

    350

    On the 23rd of August, by order of the states-general, the advocate and his chief supporters, de Groot and Hoogerbeets, were arrested.

    351

    On the completion of his studies in Iaw at Poitiers Vieta began his career as an advocate in his native town.

    352

    On the return of the Whigs to power in 1830 he became lord advocate, and entered parliament as member for the Perth burghs.

    353

    On the withdrawal of Leicester from the Netherlands in August 1587, Johan van Oldenbarneveldt, the advocate of Holland, became the leading statesman of the country, a position which he retained for upwards of thirty years.

    354

    On their expulsion by Michael Palaeologus in 1261 Pachymeres settled in Constantinople, studied law, entered the church, and subsequently became chief advocate of the church (rrpwrkbucos) and chief justice of the imperial court (SucacochuAa).

    355

    One of the immediate results of this triumph of his policy was the increase of Oldenbarneveldt's influence and authority in the government of the Republic. But though Maurice and his other opponents had reluctantly yielded to the advocate's skilful diplomacy and persuasive arguments, a soreness remained between the statesman and the stadholder which was destined never to be healed.

    356

    One recommendation of the system was that it favoured a milder system of treatment than was at that time in vogue; Brown may be said to have been the first advocate of the modern stimulant or feeding treatment of fevers.

    357

    Organizations have been established to advocate this method of living under the name of "Vegetarian Societies" in many countries - chiefly the United Kingdom, America, Germany, France, Austria, Holland and Australia.

    358

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

    359

    Our teacher's teacher defined love as "profound interest", and we strongly advocate cultivating and displaying interest in your partner.

    360

    Our unrivaled pedigree of 140 years makes us the most authoritative, independent advocate of women's rights in the UK.

    361

    Parents also need to advocate for early evaluation of learning disabilities if their child is falling behind.

    362

    Parents may find it helpful to designate a physician, usually the primary pediatrician, or an experienced rehabilitation counselor to act as an advocate for their child and to aid them in coordinating their child's treatment program.

    363

    Peckham was always a strenuous advocate of the papal power, especially as shown in the council of Lyons in 1274.

    364

    Pettigrew, there is reason to believe, was the first to advocate the employment of elastic screws for aerial purposes.

    365

    Previously to his becoming president of the Free State he had acted as its Chief Justice and still earlier in life had practised as an advocate in Cape Colony.

    366

    Prosecutions had to be instituted by the Director of Public Prosecutions in England, the Lord Advocate in Scotland, or the Attorney-General in Ireland.

    367

    Questions soon arose as to the respective claims of the admiralty advocate and the counsel to the admiralty, and their acuteness was increased when the courts were fused into one High Court of Justice.

    368

    Ramsay has been the principal advocate of the adoption of the South-Galatian theory, which maintains that they were the churches planted in Derbe, Lystra, Iconium and Antioch (see GALATIANS).

    369

    Rhode Island was one of the first communities in the world to advocate religious freedom and political individualism.

    370

    Rizzio, hitherto his friend and advocate, induced the queen to reply by a reasonable refusal to this hazardous and audacious request.

    371

    Robert Brown (1773-1858) was the first British botanist to support and advocate the natural system of classification.

    372

    Roman Catholic emancipation, which he continued to advocate with unflagging energy though now advanced in age, became complicated after 1808 by the question whether a veto on the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops should rest with the crown.

    373

    Sadoleto had a remarkable talent for affairs and approved himself a faithful servant of the papacy in many difficult negotiations under successive popes, especially as a peacemaker; but he was no bigoted advocate of papal authority, and the great aim of his life was to win back the Protestants by peaceful persuasion - he would never countenance persecution - and by putting Catholic doctrine in a conciliatory form.

    374

    She continues to be an advocate for the Children's Miracle Network, the nonprofit she co-founded, and spends her time performing with her brother and being a public speaker.

    375

    She is an advocate for her daughter and a source of support and guidance for families affected by pervasive developmental disorders.

    376

    Since Fubar organic fuel bars were created and produced under the supervision of military members who experienced harsh physical conditions, this company is an advocate for military members.

    377

    Since the OCA is one of the largest membership-driven advocate groups for organic foods and sustainable living, most retailers take notice when the OCA calls for action.

    378

    Some advocate the use of visualization strategies, in which patients are encouraged to visualize the immune cells of their body attacking and destroying the cancer cells.

    379

    Some experts advocate not just evaluating patients with symptoms, but using these blood studies as a screening test for high-risk individuals, such as those with relatives (especially first-degree relatives) known to have the disorder.

    380

    Some of his first attempts in public speaking were at meetings which he convened at Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Rochdale and other adjacent towns, to advocate the establishment of British schools.

    381

    Some people may advocate preparing an entire week's worth of menus on Sunday afternoon, ready to pop in the oven at a moment's notice.

    382

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

    383

    States that provided judge advocate general county sheriff 's deputy.

    384

    Such a system would have been unworkable but for the fact that with the revival of the political principles of Oldenbarneveldt, there was found statesman of commanding ability to fill the office in which the famous advocate of Grand of Holland had for so many years been " minister of - all affairs " in the forming state.

    385

    That vote was given by deputies at the head of whom was the advocate (in later times called the grand pensionary) of Holland, and who were responsible to, and the spokesmen of, the provincial states.

    386

    That week's final privacy advocate Evan right from wrong missed hockey greatly.

    387

    The Abbe Casgrain' Devoted A Life Time To Making The French Canadians Appear As The Chosen People Of New World History; But, Though An Able' Advocate, He Spoilt A Really Good Case By Trying To Prove Too Much.

    388

    The activists who advocate for safe treatments and support services strive to make sure all interventions still respect the dignity and identity of autistic individuals.

    389

    The admiralty advocate or advocate to his majesty in his office of admiralty represented specially the lords of the admiralty.

    390

    The advocate (or grand pensionary) of Holland therefore, if an able man, had opportunities for exercising a very considerable influence, becoming in fact a kind of minister of all affairs.

    391

    The advocate and the States of Holland took sides with the Remonstrants, Maurice and the majority of the States-General (four provinces out of seven) supported the Contra-Remonstrants.

    392

    The advocate drew up and introduced all resolutions, concluded debates and counted the votes in the Provincial Assembly.

    393

    The advocate now took a bold step. He proposed that the States of Holland should, on their own authority, as a sovereign province, raise a local force of 4000 men (waardgelders) to keep the peace.

    394

    The advocate was sentenced to death, and executed (13th of May 1619) in the Binnenhof at the Hague.

    395

    The advocate was the paid minister of the states.

    396

    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.

    397

    The Atkins plan does not advocate over-consumption of fat.

    398

    The best advocate the AD/HD child has is a parent so it is important that parents be proactive and keep up to date on the latest research.

    399

    The Better Business Bureau does not advocate that people choose one company or another to work for.

    400

    The brothers on the Council were looking for any excuse to expel or kill him, and Andre was his only advocate.

    401

    The Cat Fanciers' Association has grown from an idea to a strong advocate for cats and pet owners alike.

    402

    The chief spokesman of the new movement was Henry Clay, who remained throughout his life the constant advocate of this so-called " American system."

    403

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

    404

    The commanding abilities of Oldenbarneveldt, now advocate of Holland, gradually gathered into his hands the entire administration of the Republic. He became indispensable and, as his influence grew, more and more did the policy of the provinces acquire unity and con sistency of purpose.

    405

    The company is a strong advocate for wind power.

    406

    The course of study for Brehon and 011amh, advocate and law-agent respectively, is carefully laid down in the law itself.

    407

    The crown princess was a keen advocate of the higher education of women, and it was owing to her exertions that the Victoria Lyceum at Berlin (which was named after her) was founded.

    408

    The discontented condition of Upper Canada drew him into politics., and on the 18th of May 1824 he published at Queenston the first number of the Colonial Advocate, in which the ruling oligarchy was attacked with great asperity.

    409

    The executive council consists of the high commissioner, the chief secretary, the king's advocate, the senior officer in charge of the troops, and the receiver-general, with, as " additional " members, two Christians and one Mussulman.

    410

    The first advocate of the Pan-Slav idea in Russia itself was Krizanic, a Croat Catholic priest from Dalmatia, and early writers in favour of Slavonic racial and literary unity were the Slovene schoolmaster Bohoricz (1584) and the Dalmatian Croat Orbini, who wrote in Italian (Il regno degli Slavi 1601).

    411

    The first rift between them came in 1600, when Maurice was forced against his will by the states-general, under the advocate's influence, to undertake an expedition into Flanders, which was only saved from disaster by desperate efforts which ended in victory at Nieuwport.

    412

    The foremost advocate at the bar, he was known to have declined the highest prize in the profession rather than promote a measure of which he disapproved; a very prominent member of the House of Commons, whose action had been more than usually independent of party, he had separated himself from his political friends and maintained a position as the dignified and forcible opponent of disestablishment.

    413

    The forum also heard the CBD's own scientific advisors advocate caution, and African NGOs slam the move to overturn the moratorium.

    414

    The great bulk of the code was an obstacle to the multiplication of copies of it, whilst the necessity for them was in a great degree superseded by the publication from time to time of synopses and encheiridia of its contents, composed by the most eminent jurists, of which a very full account will be found in the Histoire au droit byzantin, by the advocate Mortreuil, published in Paris in 1846.

    415

    The High Court of Admiralty of Ireland, being formed on the same pattern as the High Court in England, sat in the Four Courts, Dublin, having a judge, a registrar, a marshal and a king's or queen's advocate.

    416

    The importance of the advocate was much increased after the outbreak of the revolt in 1572, and still more so during the long period 1586-161g when John van Oldenbarneveldt held the office.

    417

    The job of a literary agent is to act as an advocate for the writers he represents.

    418

    The judge advocate of the fleet is a practising barrister whose function it is to advise the admiralty on all matters connected with courts-martial.

    419

    The judge advocate of the fleet receives no fees but is remunerated by a salary of £500 per annum.

    420

    The king's advocate also represented the crown in the ecclesiastical courts, and was its standing adviser in matters of international and foreign law.

    421

    The king's advocate led the bar of his courts, and before the privy council took precedence of the attorney-general.

    422

    The last holder of the office of standing counsel to the admiralty was Alexander Staveley Hill, K.C.,M.P. Since his death the office, like those of the king's or queen's advocate and the admiralty advocate, has not been filled up; and the ordinary law officers of the crown with the assistance of a junior counsel to the admiralty (a barrister appointed by the attorney-general) perform the duties of all these offices.

    423

    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.

    424

    The Lord Advocate may grant a waiver of this disqualification.

    425

    The means used to promote these objects are mainly (1) the formation of local branch associations throughout the country, the duty of which is by lectures, meetings and the distribution of suitable literature to make known and advocate its principles, and (2) the holding of great annual or biennial meetings of the whole association, at which its objects and principles are expounded and applied to the circumstances of the Church at the moment.

    426

    The most distinguished and popular advocate of the philological school was Max Muller, whose views may be found in his Selected Essays and Lectures on Language.

    427

    The name of Barere de Vieuzac, by which he continued to call himself long after the renunciation of feudal rights on the famous 4th of August, was assumed from a small fief belonging to his father, a lawyer at Vieuzac. He began to practise as an advocate at the parlement of Toulouse in 1770, and soon earned a considerable reputation as an orator; while his brilliant and flowing style as a writer of essays led to his election as a member of the Academy of Floral Games of Toulouse in 1788.

    428

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

    429

    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.

    430

    The Organic Consumers Association represents both merchants and individual consumers as a voice to advocate for organic foods.

    431

    The organization is an advocate for organic agriculture and extends education and resources to those interested in sustainable growth.

    432

    The partnership between Garrison and Lundy was then dissolved by mutual consent, and the former resolved to establish a paper of his own, in which, upon his sole responsibility, he could advocate the doctrine of immediate emancipation and oppose the scheme of African colonization.

    433

    The phrase, "devil's advocate," has by an easy transference come to be used of any one who puts himself up, or is put up, for the sake of promoting debate, to argue a case in which he does not necessarily believe.

    434

    The popularity he won was of political service in preparing the way for the union of North and South Germany, and he was the foremost advocate of the imperial idea at the Prussian court.

    435

    The prime movers in this action were Dr. Trumbic, a leading Dalmatian advocate and mayor of Spalato, and Mr. Supilo, also a Dalmatian, the editor of the Novi List at Fiume.

    436

    The promoter of the faith, popularly called the "devil's advocate" (advocates diaboli), is the defendant, whose official duty is to point out to the tribunal the weak points of the case.

    437

    The refusal of Raymund meant the choice of Godfrey of Bouillon, who had, as we have seen, become prominent since the siege of Arca; and Godfrey accordingly became - not king, but "advocate of the Holy Sepulchre," while a few days afterwards Arnulf, the chaplain of Robert of Normandy, and one of the sceptics in the matter of the Holy Lance, became "vicar" of the vacant patriarchate.

    438

    The school of Saint-Simon insists strongly on the claims of merit; they advocate a social hierarchy in which each man shall be placed according to his capacity and rewarded according to his works.

    439

    The site has a section where you can advocate for cancer.

    440

    The son of an advocate, he was intended to follow his father's profession, but the events of 1789 turned his mind in another direction.

    441

    The spirit of resistance to revolution quickly developed into a spirit of resistance to reform, and those who continued to advocate changes, more or less after the French model, were treated as the enemies of mankind.

    442

    The vidame was originally, like the avoue (advocatus), an official chosen by the bishop of the diocese, with the consent of the count (see Advocate).

    443

    The whole life of the advocate disproves them, and not a shred of evidence has ever been produced to throw suspicion upon the patriot statesman's conduct.

    444

    The work of Cobden, and what is now called "Cobdenism," has in recent years been subjected to much criticism from the newer school of English economists who advocate a "national policy" (on the old lines of Alexander Hamilton and Friedrich List) as against his cosmopolitan ideals.

    445

    Their chief was not so much Robespierre, president of the parliamentary and bourgeois club of the Jacobins (q.v.), which had acquired by means of its two thousand affiliated branches great power in the provinces, as the advocate Danton, president of the popular and Parisian club of the Cordeliers.

    446

    Then in April 1688 he took the suicidal step of issuing a proclamation to force the clergy and bishops to read the Declaration in their pulpits, and thus personally advocate a measure they detested.

    447

    There are many fine reggae singers who do not advocate killing gay people.

    448

    There can be no question, however, that Samuel Adams was one of the first, if not the first, of American political leaders to deny the legislative power of parliament and to desire and advocate separation from the mother country.

    449

    There really are numerous plans that advocate following a low carb way of eating.

    450

    There were also an admiralty advocate and an admiralty proctor.

    451

    These classic sewing machines helped inspire a love of sewing for many, and can make a beautiful decorative piece for the sewing fan or antique advocate alike.

    452

    These same wine snobs know that when wine is rated by the Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast and Wine Advocate, the price is not revealed before or during the tasting.

    453

    They "testify" against the use of intoxicating liquor and tobacco, and advocate simplicity in dress.

    454

    They advocate reducing poverty as a way to fight crime, and also - and they came out and said it - reducing sexism.

    455

    They also advocate for the rights and interests of animals and provide educational programs statewide.

    456

    They argued their way back to Parkside with Dean playing the devil's advocate while Fred quoted a dozen mystery stories that bore out his hypothesis, a hypothesis that grew in detail with each passing mile.

    457

    They do not advocate any particular method, but instead discuss a variety of methods that can be used to achieve pregnancy in the face of infertility.

    458

    They oppose racism and homophobia, they advocate the separation of church and state, they promote tolerance.

    459

    This organization, located in Washington, D.C., encourages cat adoptions, and it also serves as support to local animal shelters around the country by providing training, publications, education and serving as an advocate.

    460

    Thomas graduated at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, in 1815, and in August 1816 was admitted to the bar at Lancaster, where he won high rank as an advocate.

    461

    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.

    462

    Three bridges cross the North Channel, a footbridge, North Gate bridge and St Patrick's bridge, the last a handsome three-arch structure leading to St Patrick's Street, a wide and pleasant thoroughfare, containing a statue of Father Mathew, the celebrated Capuchin advocate of temperance, born in 1790.

    463

    To eject the advocate from power was one thing, to execute him as a traitor quite another.

    464

    To keep your Hawaiian silver ID bracelet in the best condition, you need to gently clean away the tarnish with a very soft cotton cloth.Some people advocate cleaning tarnished silver with toothpaste, but this really isn't a very good idea.

    465

    To this end he made his appeal to the Northern churches and pulpits, beseeching them to bring the power of Christianity to bear against the slave system, and to advocate the rights of the slaves to immediate and unconditional freedom.

    466

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

    467

    Travolta and his wife are members of the Church of Scientology and John has become an advocate for the religion, almost on par with his colleague Tom Cruise.

    468

    True to its mission as a consumer advocate, it will also show how your speed compares with other internet access providers available in your area (determined by zip code), across a range of connection types.

    469

    True, but playing the devil's advocate, I have some problems with Gladys.

    470

    Two devoted adherents of William of Orange, Paul Buys, advocate of Holland, and Johan van Oldenbarneveldt, pensionary of Rotterdam, were the statesmen who at this difficult juncture took the foremost part in directing the policy of the confederacy.

    471

    Under the influence of Seneca he became a keen student of philosophy and rhetoric, and began practising as an advocate.

    472

    Unlike the advocate, however, the vice-dominus was at the outset an ecclesiastic, who acted as the bishop's lieutenant (locum tenens) or vicar.

    473

    Until 1786 he was a leading advocate of a stronger central government but when chosen a delegate to the Philadelphia constitutional convention of 1787, he had become cold in the cause and declined to serve.

    474

    Upon the next vacancy after the courts were thrown open, the crown altered the precedence and placed the queen's advocate after the attorneyand solicitor-general.

    475

    Upon the resignation of Sir James Parker Deane the office of admiralty advocate was not filled up. In like manner the proctor to the admiralty has disappeared.

    476

    Van Artevelde, its chief advocate, was murdered by his own townsmen in this same year.

    477

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

    478

    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.

    479

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

    480

    When the "Armenian atrocities" became a burning question in the country in 1896, and Mr Gladstone himself emerged from his retirement to advocate intervention, Lord Rosebery's difficulties had taken their final form.

    481

    When the confederation was almost in a state of collapse because of the failure of the states to respond to requisitions of Congress for supplies for the federal treasury, Madison was among the first to advocate the granting of additional powers to Congress, and urged that congress should forbid the states to issue more paper money.

    482

    When using the debt snowball method of financial management, some people advocate postponing retirement contributions in order to free up more money for repaying the debt.

    483

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

    484

    Where the Tycoons are very bold, the Advocate is not.

    485

    While strongly condemning cruelty, he declared himself an advocate of emancipation, but held that it should be effected gradually, and after due preparation.

    486

    Widely considered the first plus supermodel, Emme Aronson has parlayed her modeling career into being a fashion advisor, women's issues advocate and even a book author.

    487

    William Little of Craigmillar, and his brother Clement Little, advocate, along with James Lawson, the colleague and successor of John Knox, may justly be regarded as true founders.

    488

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

    489

    With Benjamin Franklin and Charles Carroll he was sent by Congress in 1776 to win over the Canadians to the side of the revolting colonies, and after his return did much to persuade Maryland to advocate a formal separation of the thirteen colonies from Great Britain, he himself being one of those who signed the Declaration of Independence on the 2nd of August 1776.

    490

    With the outbreak of the Civil War he became an ardent and powerful advocate of the cause of the Union.

    491

    Yet he was strictly orthodox, and was an uncompromising advocate of the pope's temporal power.

    492

    You can chat with an advocate online through the website.

    493

    You can foster an animal, be an advocate, or volunteer at many of the outreach facilities that the humane society runs.

    494

    You don't have to understand each rule governing hospice care in order to be an effective consumer advocate for you or a family member.

    495

    Your best offense is to educate yourself so that you can become your child's strongest advocate!