Advocates
['ædvəkɪt]
Examples
- The Penns found here some strenuous advocates; nor were there wanting some who warmly espoused the side of the people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Preece, who, having been seriously sceptical as to Mr. Edison's results, became one of his most ardent advocates, and did much to facilitate the introduction of the light. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The proctors employ the advocates. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- What the Commission advocates is the constant repression and the ultimate annihilation of a mode of life which refuses discovery and measurement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But for the affairs of statecraft, for the very policies that a Roosevelt advocates, the interest is largely perfunctory, maintained out of a sense of duty and dropped with a sigh of relief. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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