He advocated the use of gutta-percha, then a new material, for the insulation of underground wires, and in 1847 designed a screw-press for coating the wires with the gum rendered plastic by heat.
Possessing an earnest desire for the public welfare, he has, with characteristic vigor, energy and broadmindedness, advocated measures calculated to redound to the immense benefit of the capital of the old Bay State.
Lord Harrington, who is well known as a fine horseman, also dislikes spurs, and has advocated their abolition in the Yeomanry.
Many rules, to be sure, have been advocated as safe guides toward reaching the correct answer; every midwife possesses her individual formula which she has "never known to fail.
Students of ethnology relate that among savage tribes almost every conceivable position was advocated for women in labor.
Outdoor life has been so urgently advocated of late that the public has come to appreciate its benefits almost as fully as do physicians.
And besides, the less relationship you claim with many of these seceders the better for you, as they all advocated errors against Christian truth, and some of them disseminated principles at variance with decency and morality.
It should also be remembered that Luther advocated the most merciless doctrine towards the Jews.
It is well known that Adam Smith advocated the Navigation Laws, upon the ground that national independence was of more importance than national wealth.
Another form of the theory was advocatedby Klinkerfues.
But the principles which the early apostles of revolution advocated were always near his heart.
While he advocated unbounded liberty, he knew well enough that it would degenerate into license unless the people were well-informed.
As to your disagreement from me in the conclusions arrived at and strenuously advocated in the latter portions of my work, I am not surprised.
Some of the letters addressed to Miss Buckley (afterwards Mrs. Fisher) reveal the extreme caution which he both practised himself and advocated in others when following up any experimental phase of spiritual phenomena.
He advocated this in the interest of the Unionists outside Ulster.
In the following year he advocated a new Triple Alliance between Germany, Great Britain and the United States.
Physical training for youths from fourteen to eighteen, as advocated by the League, would be good, but it would not reach the wastrels, who were useless for military service.
Repudiating the suggestion that the suffragist members should postpone their efforts till militancy had ceased, he strongly advocated deportation, and welcomed the design attributed to the Government to attack the militants' funds.
From then till his death he strongly advocated compulsory military service, and was President of the National Service League.
Let Liberals consider how the line could be drawn between the proposed taxation and that advocated by the hon.
The people were cautiously approached upon this subject, and even some of the leaders among the burghers advocated the measure as the best, and, indeed, only thing possible in the present state of demoralization.
Schmidt, who had informed me of it as well as his colleagues, and had advocated the justice of such a reform.
He endeavoured to construct an artificial insect on the plan advocated by Borelli, Strauss-Durckheim and Chabrier, but signally failed, his insect never having been able to lift more than a third of its own weight.
In the Memorial, a journal edited by La Harpe, he discreetly advocated reaction to the monarchical principle.
The French Revolution frightened him into reaction, and he advocated the support of the first coalition against France.
They were all constructed on a common principle, and were provided with extensive flying surfaces in the shape of rigid aeroplanes inclined at an upward angle to the horizon, and more or less fixed on the plan advocated by Henson.
Flood's view prevailed--for a Renunciation Act such as he advocated was ungrudgingly passed by the English parliament in 1783--and for a time he regained popularity at the expense of his rival.
Footnote 296: General Jacob had long before advocated the occupation of this strong flanking position.
As to methods, headvocated a propaganda of violence.
Making this their polar star, they moved in phalanx, gave preponderance on every question to the minorities of the Patriots, and always to those who advocated the least change.
John Adams advocatedthe voting in proportion to numbers.
But the Princess Christian had made no overtures; she was committed to the particular scheme advocated by the Association of which she was President; and, to Miss Nightingale, opposition to that scheme was a matter of vital principle.
But by supposing an individual unity to be inconsistent with extension and parts, he has advocated an absurdity still more glaring than the one which a part of his reasoning has so successfully overthrown.
There is another gross error of a very different nature from the one advocatedby Priestley and his followers, which Dr.
It is a doctrine most definitely expressed and advocated in our pamphlet on the Kingdom of God, and that, too, on the very page from which Mr. Taylder makes copious extracts.
Hobbes, Spinosa, Priestley, Darwin, and numerous other individuals, have strenuously advocated this inconsistency.
For while the majority of the Commission were in favor of gradual reforms, the minority advocated the continuation of the old repressive policy.
They advocated the necessity of a Russian elementary education and of secular culture in general; they emphasized the uselessness of the traditional Jewish school training, and exposed superstition and obscurantism.
The Ministers of the Interior and Public Instruction (Lanskoy and Kovalevski) advocated the former more liberal interpretation.
Our object, of course, is to keep woman suffrage in the foreground of interest and to insist on every possible occasion that no other reform advocated is of such immediate importance.
The excuse given for this was that weadvocated and defended a militant policy.
This announcement was not made in the House of Commons, but to a deputation of men from the People's Suffrage Federation, a small group of people who advocated universal adult suffrage.
The friends of the protective system with undiminished confidence in the principles they have advocated will await the results of the new experiment.
The contention has not been between schedules, but between principles, and it would be offensive to suggest that the prevailing party will not carry into legislation the principles advocated by it and the pledges given to the people.
Those who have advocated a protective tariff can well afford to have their disastrous forecasts of a change of policy disappointed.
She was a fussy, ill-bred woman, spoke with a strong nasal twang, and a sincere believer in all the reformsadvocated by her husband, though she differed with him on one or two points of religion.
He had got up no end of quarrels, invented new religions, established a hotel on principles of high moral economy, advocated broad and advanced ideas in everything, and kept the settlement in a state of excitement generally.
Bentham, in a pamphlet called 'Emancipate your Colonies,' advocated a speedy and complete separation.
He advocatedthe introduction of competitive examinations, first of all into the Diplomatic, and then into most branches of the Civil Service.
More than three centuries before Francis Bacon advocated the experimental method, Roger Bacon practised it, and the results as now revealed are wonderful.
In 1847, James Young Simpson, a Scotch physician, who afterward rose to the highest eminence in his profession, having advocated the use of anaesthetics in obstetrical cases, was immediately met by a storm of opposition.
Many Missourians, as well as many citizens of other border slave States, at the beginning of the trouble advocated a policy of neutrality.
Douglas advocated a roundabout way that led up to the same result.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "advocated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: accepted; acclaimed; admired; admitted; approved; backed; favored; favorite; popular; received
