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Example sentences for "advocate"

Lexicographically close words:
advisor; advisors; advisory; advocacy; advocat; advocated; advocates; advocating; advocatus; advowson
  1. For this labor of love the slaveholding South is warmly grateful and applauds its reverend ally, as if a very Daniel had come as their advocate to judgment.

  2. This was Luis Arias de Mora, an advocate belonging to the Manila Audiencia; according to Diaz (p.

  3. Son of a cobbler; an advocate and man of business at No.

  4. After serving Desroches as head-clerk for six years he bought the practice of Levroux, an advocate of Mantes, where he had occasion to meet Leboeuf, Vinet, Vatinelle and Bouyonnet.

  5. An advocate of some repute, a Herr Pfeiffer, proposed and was accepted.

  6. His advocate addressed a petition to the Emperor to quash the proceedings, and it turned out successful to-day.

  7. At that time the Jewish provincial advocate had come within an ace of being Minister of Justice.

  8. Golowski's advocate has presented a petition to quash the proceedings.

  9. It is intelligible that Governments, conscious of their moral responsibility, should not advocate the right of the inferior races to be idle, which would entail the continuance of a social system opposed to civilization.

  10. Would you have employed an advocate to defend you had you known that you were going to be tried for such serious offences against the laws of the country?

  11. Karl ventured to advocate the first plan; but Tina decided for the second.

  12. He even went so far as to form a court and appoint a ministry; and, that nothing should be wanting, he actually started a newspaper to advocate his cause.

  13. First as the friend and advocate of the Rev.

  14. Those were perilous times for an advocate of temperance in my native state.

  15. We became engaged in the same work of reform, I as an advocate of temperance, he as candidate for the presidency of the United States on the prohibition ticket.

  16. I do not mean by this that I advocate imperialism from the standpoint of wider domain.

  17. Liszt was an advocate of persistent development, i.

  18. I have heard much of you since then; for you have a fervent advocate in my house.

  19. The Proudfoots must be rich, for no advocate could look to have much business in so remote a quarter; and John hated them for their wealth and for their name, and for the sake of the house they desecrated with their presence.

  20. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just; and He is the propitiation for our sins.

  21. He was a good linguist, and had been an advocate in Florence in the days when he made the law a stepping-stone into politics and fat emoluments.

  22. One day, when you are Minister, you will find that you had much more leisure as advocate in Turin and deputy for Asti.

  23. Moose River and Five Islands to the east may be reached in this way, as well as Advocate Harbor and Cap d'Or on the west.

  24. Advocate Harbor is another quaint and distant place, well worth a visit.

  25. The dethroned princes accused their conquerors with all the vehemence of men wronged and robbed; and such a bloodstained prelate as Bishop Fulk of Toulouse was put forth as the advocate on the other side.

  26. In 1852 the gentleman whom the Lisburn electors were ordered to return was Mr. Inglis, the lord advocate of Scotland.

  27. Affairs were in this condition, when a brother of Leonide, Alfred Lasalle, a young advocate from the provinces, came to establish himself in Paris.

  28. That's not all; you must be my advocate in another quarter.

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

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

  31. He is remarkable for being the persistent advocate of a pacific policy at a time when war on the slightest provocation was the watchword of every Swedish politician.

  32. Mr. Jefferson, especially, was a great advocate for it, and held it to be indispensable to a safe and economical administration and disbursement of the public revenues.

  33. Why, Sir, he said that "he was no advocate for refined arguments on the Constitution.

  34. That liberty which he so early defended, that independence of which he was so able an advocate and supporter, he saw, we trust, firmly and securely established.

  35. Her legislature has instructed her Senators here to advocate the renewal of the charter, at this session.

  36. But he says he differed with his friends; in this respect he resisted party influence and party connection, and was the friend and advocate of the navy.

  37. Erskine, probably the greatest advocate who ever appeared in the English courts of law, made but a comparatively poor figure in the House of Commons, as a member of the Whig opposition.

  38. Not a word passed between the felon and the intrepid advocate who had stripped his villany of all its plausible disguises; but what immense meaning must there have been in the swift interchange of feeling as their eyes met!

  39. Mirabel's advocate first defended from the Bible and the Fathers, the existence of ghosts.

  40. It was then whispered that General Garfield, while ostensibly working for Sherman, would advocate his own nomination, and also that he would have the support of the friends of Mr. Blaine.

  41. Artists found in him a zealous advocate for their employment and remuneration by Congress, and he was thoroughly acquainted with the works of the old masters.

  42. Prominent in cordially welcoming those who had renounced their party allegiance to vote for Mr. Cleveland, he was the pledged advocate of civil service reform.

  43. The one penned the Declaration of Independence, the other was pronounced "the pillar of its support and its ablest advocate and defender.

  44. To be thus greeted by political advocate and antagonist, by his former subordinates on the field and by those who stood against him, was enough to awaken a nature far less sensitive to appreciation than his.

  45. Briggs (afterward Governor of Massachusetts), who was an earnest advocate of temperance, was Chairman of the Postal Committee.

  46. Mr. Carpenter was then approaching death's door, and his feeble voice was at times inaudible in the galleries, but his argument sustained his reputation as an advocate and as a Senator.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "advocate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abet; abettor; acquaintance; admirer; advise; advocate; agent; alternate; angel; answer; apologist; arm; assert; back; backbone; backer; backing; backup; bandeau; barrister; bearer; boost; brace; bracer; bracket; brief; brother; buff; buttress; cajole; cane; carrier; cervix; champion; coach; coax; comfort; commend; confer; confidant; corset; counsel; counselor; countenance; counter; crook; crutch; defend; defender; dependence; deputy; direct; dummy; embolden; encourage; endorse; endorser; espouse; exhort; exponent; familiar; fan; favor; fellow; fellowman; figurehead; flank; follower; friend; fulcrum; girdle; guard; guide; guy; hearten; importune; indorse; insist; instruct; intercessor; intimate; lieutenant; lobby; lover; mainstay; maintain; mast; meddle; mouthpiece; move; nag; neck; neighbor; paladin; partisan; party; patron; pickup; plead; pleader; plug; preach; prescribe; press; pressure; procurator; promote; promoter; prop; proponent; propose; protagonist; protect; protector; proxy; puff; push; rebut; recommend; refute; reinforcement; reliance; reply; repository; representative; respond; rest; rigging; riposte; safeguard; sanction; screen; second; secondary; seconder; sectary; secure; shield; shoulder; shroud; solicitor; spine; sponsor; staff; stalwart; stand; standby; stave; stay; stick; strengthener; submit; subscribe; substitute; suggest; support; supporter; surrogate; sustain; sustainer; sympathizer; take; tout; understudy; uphold; upholder; urge; vicar; vice; vindicate; vindicator; votary; wheedle