Advocates Sentence Examples

It advocates and supports economic self-help in rural communities, supporting the growth and development of farmer-controlled businesses.

This company advocates the benefits of HSAs.

While cloth diaper advocates point out that using cloth diapers is more economical, however, parents must figure in the cost of laundry or a diaper service.

For years, disposable diaper advocates stated that children who wear disposables have a lesser instance of diaper rash.

Advocates of these new coffee makers believe they deliver fresh, delicious coffee better than drip designs.

Many advocates of a raw cat food diet claim that this scientific tampering is unnecessary, and they believe that the domestic feline can survive just as well as its feral counterpart on a diet of raw meats.

Some homemade cat food advocates suggest supplementation with liquid B vitamins, taurine, bone meal, fish oil and many other whole foods.

They serve as advocates for consumers and as mediators with consumers' creditors.

Despite the numerous objections from law professionals, child advocates and divorce counselors, many people will pursue romantic interests while in the process of divorce.

Courtrooms, judges and child advocates have made enormous strides in seeking the best environment for the children of divorce.

Since the divorce rate in America began to increase during the mid 20th century, child advocates have lectured adults about the possible damage early childhood pain can inflict on young minds.

In response to the risks, professional divorce counselors and child advocates have spent decades establishing proven methods to both circumvent common problems and treat the issues that do arise.

With the increasing scrutiny of dependence on fossil fuels, many advocates for alternative energy sources may wonder, "Is nuclear energy renewable?"

While nuclear energy is not renewable, it does have advocates who claim it is a green energy source.

Also, go to Advocates for Youth, click on Topics and Issues and scroll down until you find GLBTQ Youth.

For instance, ADV Films offers the ADVocates program for anime clubs, sending promotional copies of DVDs and offering news and discounts on the latest releases to club sponsors.

Rescue organizations and the people connected with them act as the advocates for these displaced, unwanted and abandoned dogs.

Nudism flourished in Germany, France, England, elsewhere in Europe, and in the United States, but its advocates often had to fend off legal challenges or accusations of depravity.

The very name, for many women's rights advocates, is synonymous with exploitation.

Many advocates of kombucha highlight this heightened wellbeing as a primary reason to use it as a tea, extract, or capsule supplement.

Advocates of organic products often make the claim that organic products are tastier than products resulting from conventional methods.

The definition of GMO can vary greatly, but most organic advocates do not view GMOs in a positive light in the least.

While some advocates would like to see GMOs banished altogether, there are some people who do not necessarily mind the existence of GMOs as long as they don't personally have to consume them.

When it comes to controversy over GMOs, the requirement of labeling GMO food items is on the top of the list of things that organic advocates would like to see changed.

It may not seem sensible to spend more money on a food product just because it's organic, but many people, including health-food advocates and those who are concerned about environmental impact, believe organics are a wise choice.

Advocates point to the higher crop yields and savings on pesticides, arguing that the benefits outweigh any risks.

Animal Stress - Though it's difficult to measure, animal rights advocates are concerned about the amount of stress that would be experienced by the product of the genetic engineering of animal DNA.

These advocates feel that the eradication of discrimination in the industry doesn't start at the level of modeling/talent agencies, but must begin first at the "root" of fashion - at fashion schools.

The National Long Term Care Ombudsmen Resource Center advocates for the rights of those living in nursing home and assisted living facilities.

The National Center for Assisted Living, or NCAL, advocates for assisted living in Washington D.C. and offers a wide array of valuable information.

On the other side of the argument, many service members and their advocates argue that 20 years service in order to obtain full retirement pay is an excellent incentive to keep trained, able-bodied people in the military.

In addition, advocates of free speech worry that limits on video game sales will have far reaching implications for our rights to free speech.

Whether people are gun collectors, hunters, or fierce gun control advocates, they need to ensure their families' safety by talking with their children about the potential dangers of guns and what to do if one is found.

Parents working with health providers are the best advocates for this right.

The group Advocates for Youth recommends young women always keep ECPs on hand (in advance) so they can be used as soon as possible following unprotected sex, such as when a condom breaks during sexual intercourse.

Family counseling advocates work with families to secure proper support to meet individual family needs.

This team usually includes law enforcement officers, physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, victim advocates, and/or prosecutors.

Advocates of alternative treatments suggest biofeedback, acupressure and the use of herbs to calm the stomach.

Many feng shui advocates believe you should adhere to a specific color pallet for bedrooms based on the direction your room is located.

Advocates of homeschooling argue that children learn social skills through modeling the appropriate behavior of trusted adults, and they state that the majority of childhood socialization takes place outside the classroom anyway.

There are certainly many advocates of liquid vitamins.

This idea is impossible if love is seen as a limited resource, and a lot of time is spent by poly advocates and teachers trying to counter this perception.

These trusted consumer advocates work tirelessly to ensure that all LV merchandise sold online is, in fact, the real thing.

We must also become advocates for our children, ensuring that they get the best medical care and the best education possible.

One side is made up of New Age or reincarnation advocates that argue that selective passages in the Bible actually support the idea of reincarnation.

Favorpals advocates that in order for the system of exchange to work, all units of service should be treated equally, and therefore exchanged one for one.

In his Financial Peace University classes, Ramsey advocates dealing with debt by focusing on paying the smallest balance first and making only the minimum required payment on all other accounts.

Shoe advocates say that modern shoes with a thick heel, roll bars, gel inserts and other technology help prevent injuries and reduce impact.

Although not quite as common as tattooing, scarification does have advocates for the ancient art.

In keeping with his character, Savage offers no apologies, but he did offer to allow parents and advocates to "educate" him on the matter.

Some advocates for people on the autism spectrum suggest using this type of approach is unnatural for the autistic brain.

Vote4Autism.org connects advocates to Congress in efforts to support legislation for the autistic community.

Advocates for cheerleading, particularly all-star and competitive cheerleading say that the skimpy uniforms are necessary.

In addition to cheering for the Nuggets, the cheerleaders regularly participated in volunteer events around Denver as passionate advocates for community outreach and development.

If you decide to remove one food at a time, dietary intervention advocates often suggest you start with milk because the body is able to clear casein from the system quickly.

Like many other successful nutrition based plans the Thrive diet advocates eating small meals and snacks spread out over the course of the day.

Not only does the diet include the use of exogenous hormones, it also advocates users adhere to a 500 calorie per day diet plan.

The Slim Fast diet plan advocates the use of meal replacement products along with consuming fruits, vegetables, and other foods which are low in calories while being nutrient dense.

Advocates are anyone that has an interest in the insurance industry, primarily individuals that have been agents or have worked in other insurance-related jobs.

Examples of people that are advocates and lobbyists include individuals working in workers compensation, Social Security disability, medical insurance boards or managers from car insurance companies.

The EFF advocates a voluntary blanket license for P2P sites, which would work in the same way that radio licensing works.

Both artists have been open about their sexuality, coming out as lesbians very early in their careers, and since have been vocal advocates for homosexual rights.

This leads to flame wars between the OTPers and advocates of minority pairings.

Dr. Hema advocates a holistic approach to beauty, one that includes a healthy diet, stress reduction, at-home treatments and cosmetic surgery when needed.

Vegetarians and advocates for natural and organic products, the young entrepreneurs started with some simple olive oil-based soaps derived entirely from natural ingredients.

Only a few flying saucer advocates spoke from the fringes with a positive slant.

He sees insoluble contradictions in every mode of conceiving God as real, yet he advocates religious belief, though the object of that belief have but an abstract or imaginary existence.

Although the bill drawn up by the convention of 1891 was not received by the people with any show of interest, the federation movement did not die out; on the contrary, it had many enthusiastic advocates, especially in the colony of Victoria.

The depositions of witnesses were returned to Rome in 1632, but meantime the forms of the Roman chancery had been changed by Urban VIII., and the advocates could not at once continue their work.

Fichte, in short, advocates an ethical theism, and his arguments might easily be turned to account by the apologist of Christianity.

Moreover, whatever the value of Goethe's labours in that field, they were not published before 1820, long after evolutionism had taken a new departure from the works of Treviranus and Lamarck - the first of its advocates who were equipped for their task with the needful large and accurate knowledge of the phenomena of life as a whole.

The older advocates of evolution sought for the causes of the process exclusively in the influence of varying conditions, such as climate and station, or hybridization, upon living forms. Even Treviranus has got no further than this point.

St Cyprian, St Ambrose and St Augustine, St Paulinus of Nola and St John Chrysostom had practised law as teachers or advocates.

It was believed by its advocates that this system of prescribing the conditions of construction and operation of lines could promote public safety, prevent waste of capital and secure passengers and shippers against extortionate rates.

Ziemann advocates the destruction of mosquito larvae by the growing of such plants.

Jews were by the law of Honorius excluded from the army, from public offices and dignities (418), from acting as advocates (425); only the curial offices were open to them.

His extant works are (a) three poems, "The Praises of Wemen" (224 lines), "On Luve" (10 lines), and "The Miseries of a Pure Scholar" (189 lines), and (b) a Latin account of the Arbuthnot family, Originis et Incrementi Arbuthnoticae Familiae Descriptio Historica (still in MS.), of which an English continuation, by the father of Dr John Arbuthnot, is preserved in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh.

After being educated at the high school of Edinburgh and at Durham, he attended the literary and law classes at the university of Edinburgh, and becoming in 1810 a member of the Edinburgh faculty of advocates, he for some time enjoyed the intimate acquaintance of Cockburn, Jeffrey, Scott and other distinguished men whose talent then lent lustre to the Scottish bar.

This work, and especially certain notes added by the translator, gave great offence to the advocates of unlimited papal authority, and three separate memorials were presented asking for its repression.

Advocates took the place of barristers, and proctors of solicitors.

Marguerite was at once one of the chief patronesses of letters that France possessed, and the chief refuge and defender of advocates of the Reformed doctrines.

More than 80 methods of showing the hills have found advocates since that time, but all methods must be based upon contours to be scientifically satisfactory.

Some of his work is preserved in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh and in the King's Library of the British Museum, London.

About the same time the emperor placed Tribonian at the head of a fourth commission, consisting of himself as chief and four others - Dorotheus, professor at Beyrut, and three practising advocates, who were directed to revise and re-edit the first Codex of imperial constitutions.

Even among the advocates of republi canism there was no intention of dethroning Dom of Pedro, excepting a few extreme members of the party, who now gained the upper hand.

The surrounding buildings, including the courtrooms, the Advocates' and the Signet libraries, are all modern additions.

The Advocates' library is the finest in Scotland.

Passing to the effect of ordination, we meet with two views, each of which still finds advocates.

The poem (preserved in a unique MS., dated 1488, in the Advocates' library, Edinburgh) is divided into eleven books and runs to 11,853 lines.

In the debates on the Compromise Measures of 1850 he took an active part, strongly opposing these measures, while Henry Stuart Foote (1800-1880), the other Mississippi senator, was one of their leading advocates.

The mother of the cardinal, Susanne de La Porte, belonged to a family of the magistrature, her father, Francois de La Porte, being one of the first advocates of the parlement of Paris.

Thus the advocates of an unscrupulous " deal " on the lines of " Skutari for Fiume " failed to assert themselves, and Yugoslavia pronounced in favour of an independent Albania, merely reserving her right to share the spoils if it came to a general partition.

Lord Edward was among the advocates of the bolder course.

After the revolution she edited in conjunction with Karl Liebknecht the Rote Fahne, the organ of the Spartacist or Communist advocates of violent revolutionary methods.

In January 1757 he succeeded David Hume as librarian to the faculty of advocates, but soon relinquished this office on becoming tutor in the family of Lord Bute.

On the other hand, the advocates of admitting the feed into a vacuum pan in many minute streams appeal rather to the ignorant and incompetent sugarboiler than to a man who, knowing his business thoroughly, will boil 150 tons of hot raw sugar in a pan in a few hours, feeding it through a single pipe and valve io in.

But in spite of his brilliant ability and his record of having lost but two cases, the bitter attacks which he directed against his fellow advocates, especially against Gerbier (1725-1788), caused his dismissal from the bar in 1775.

In his Principles of Psychology Spencer advocates the genetic explanation of the phenomena of the adult human mind by reference to its infant and animal ancestry.

It does not necessarily form part of the religion itself, but is the best which with the materials at its command, in its own defence and in its love for truth, the religion (and its advocates) can give.

Campbell Fraser; he joined the staff of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th ed.) (1874) and studied widely in the Advocates' Library.

Weizsacker unhesitatingly advocates the latter view.

The advocates of the continuity of matter assert that the smallest conceivable body has parts, and that whatever has parts may be divided.

C. Carey, who attracts him both by his theory of value, which suggests an ultimate harmony of the interests of capitalist and labourer, and also by his doctrine of "national" political economy, which advocates protection on the ground that the morals and culture of a people are promoted by having its whole system of industry complete within its own borders.

That large party which advocates a strict and jealous construction of the constitution would certainly oppose any independent legislation by the national Congress for providing a registration of births, marriages and deaths, or for obtaining social and industrial statistics, whether for the satisfaction of the publicist or for the guidance of the legislature.

This view has still some supporters, and among its recent advocates are Koenig and Hermann.

He gave ample hearing to the advocates of phonography and of phonographic spelling.

He was one of the most conspicuous advocates of the Pacific railroads, and of many other internal improvements.

Then the advocates of passivity regained the upper hand and kept the squadron in harbour, and henceforward for many months the Japanese navy lay unchallenged off Port Arthur, engaging in minor operations, covering the transport of troops to the mainland, and watching for the moment when the advance of the army should force the Russian fleet to come out.

In the body of the book the learned author treated of the history of the English Church, its endowments and the case of the advocates of disestablishment.

In 1829 he was chosen dean of the faculty of advocates.

The 15th century may well be described as the via dolorosa of the English Bible as well as of its chief advocates and supporters, the Lollards.

The advocates of change were discontented with the hesitating acceptance which their principles had obtained.

Headed by Joseph Howe, the advocates of repeal swept the province at the Dominion election.

Meanwhile Howe, convinced of the impossibility of effecting separation, and fearing disloyal tendencies which had manifested themselves in some of its advocates, entered into negotiations with Dr Tupper in London, and later with the Dominion government, for better financial terms than those originally arranged for Nova Scotia in the federal system.

In 1754 he became deputy librarian for the Faculty of Advocates, by the kindness of Hume.

By the time he was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates (1834) he had acquired a strong love of the classics and a taste.

This modification was known as the Leipzig Interim; its advocates were stigmatized as Adiaphorists.

Each of these views has had able advocates, but it must not be supposed that they are mutually exclusive.

In his writings he expounds and advocates the medical and philosophical systems of Averroes and other Arabian writers.

Other matrices are slag cement, a comparatively recent invention, and some other natural and artificial cements which find occasional advocates.

It is indeed supported by several critics who reject the latter, just as it is occasionally rejected by advocates of their authenticity.

Aali Pasha was one of the most zealous advocates of the introduction of Western reforms under the sultans Abdul Mejid and Abdul Aziz.

These are, indeed, expressly prohibited in the later charter of Bishop Johann Kvag (1294); and the distinctive character of the constitution of Copenhagen during the middle ages consisted in the absence of the free gild system, and the right of any burgher to pursue a craft under license from the Vogt (advocates) of the overlord and the city authorities.

In the following year he received, in spite of the usual accusations of heresy, the librarianship of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh, small in emoluments (40 a year) but rich in opportunity for literary work.

These words show the futility of ascribing to Adam's account Columbus's knowledge of lands in the West, as many overzealous advocates of the Norse discoveries have done.

For a long time the advocates of free-will, in their eagerness to preserve moral responsibility, went so far as to deny all motives as influencing moral action.

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.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates willipush it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new - North as well as South."

These advocates are not state officials, but are sworn to the due execution of their duties.

In every district of the Oberlandesgerichi, the Rechtsanlvdlte are formed into an Anwaltkammer (chamber of advocates), and the council of each chamber, sitting as a court of honor, deals with and determines matters affecting the honor of the profession.

By these and other supplementary laws a uniform system of law courts was established throughout the whole empire; the position and pay of the.judges, the regulations regarding the position of advocates, and costs, were uniform, and the procedure in every state was identical.

Rosehaugh, near Avoch, belonged to Sir George Mackenzie, founder of the Advocates' library in Edinburgh, who earned the sobriquet of "Bloody" from his persecution of the Covenanters.

This policy - which was presumably that of Nicias in opposition to Alcibiades - having failed, the way was cleared for a reassertion of that policy of western conquest which had always had advocates from Themistocles onward in Athens,' and was part of the democratic programme.

The theory of the physiocrats now found powerful advocates in Denmark; and after 1755, when the press censorship was abolished so far as regarded political economy and agriculture, a thorough discussion of the whole agrarian question became possible.

His spirit was comprehensive; in confessional matters he was for a union of all Protestants; though a Zwinglian, his readiness to compromise with the advocates of consubstantiation gave him trouble with the Zwinglian stalwarts.

Among the earliest advocates of this idea was Ristich, the Servian statesman.

After 1854 she devoted herself almost exclusively to the agitation for woman's rights, and became recognized as one of the ablest and most zealous advocates, both as a public speaker and as a writer, of the complete legal equality of the two sexes.

There Carlyle found materials in the Advocates' Library for the article on the Diamond Necklace, one of his most perfect writings, which led him to study the history of the French Revolution.

Even amongst the extreme advocates of the theory of mutations, the importance of magnitude is being discounted by their suggestion that some of the minute variations which have hitherto been regarded by them as insignificant "fluctuating variations" may be significant mutations.

He has been described by the historian Henry Adams, writing of the Chase trial, as at that time the "most formidable of American advocates."

In 1798 he was called to the bar of Ireland, and rose before long to the very highest eminence among contemporary lawyers and advocates.

In concurrence with the duke's Vogt (advocates) they recognized only one right of judicature within the town, to which nobles as well as artisans had to submit.

At last the government awoke to its own responsibility in the matter of education, after the long and acrimonious controversy between the advocates of English and vernacular teaching had worn itself out.

The most extravagant theory is naturally that which was expressed by the Portuguese advocates in connexion with the dispute as to the ownership of Delagoa Bay.

Nor for revivals of the competing systems, though all have their advocates.

He became one of the first editors of the Jesuit organ, the Civiltd Cattolica; but then came under the influence of Gioberti, Rosmini and other advocates for reform.

For several years Lacordaire studied at Dijon, showing a marked talent for rhetoric; this led him to the pursuit of law, and in the local debates of the advocates he attained a high celebrity.

He is nowhere original, and nowhere profound, but his strong reasoning power, his faculty of clear arrangement and forcible statement, place him in the first rank of expositors and advocates.

Sarrazin, Beowulf-studien (1888), which advocates the strange theory that Beowulf is a translation by Cynewulf of a poem by the Danish singer Starkadr, contains, amid much that is fanciful, not a little that deserves careful consideration.

There was a general feeling that the advocates of the moral sense claimed too much for human nature and that they assumed a degree of unselfishness and a natural inclination towards virtue which by no means corresponded with the hard facts.

Joining the New York bar he obtained a lucrative practice and in 1812-13 was attorney-general of New York; his abilities and success being such that Judge Story declared him to be "by universal consent in the first rank of American advocates."

As to the place of composition Persia, Egypt and Palestine have each had advocates.

The success of the Baptists of Virginia in securing step by step the abolition of everything that savoured of religious oppression, involving at last the disestablishment and the disendowment of the Episcopal Church, was due in part to the fact that Virginia Baptists were among the foremost advocates of American independence, while the Episcopal clergy were loyalists and had made themselves obnoxious to the people by using the authority of Great Britain in extorting their tithes from unwilling parishioners, and that they secured the co-operation of free-thinking statesmen like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and, in most measures, that of the Presbyterians.

This was inaugurated by Montalembert, but its literary advocates were chiefly Dom Gueranger, a learned Benedictine monk, abbot of Solesmes, and Louis Francois Veuillot (1813-1883) of the Univers; and it succeeded in suppressing them everywhere, the last diocese to surrender being Orleans in 1875.

Nevertheless the advocates of unification gained a complete victory and a form of government was agreed to which made the union of South Africa as close as that of the United Kingdom.

In natural philosophy Campanella, closely following Telesio, advocates the experimental method and lays down heat and cold as the fundamental principles by the strife of which all life is explained.

In Greece its insensibility to art and the cultivation of life was a fatal defect; not so with the shrewd men of the world, desirous of qualifying as advocates or jurists.

The advocates of union with Spain, however, were numerous, influential, and ably led by their spokesmen in the cortes, Christovao de Moura and Antonio Pinheiro, bishop of Leiria.

There were also the Miguelites, active but impotent intriguers; and the advocates of Iberian union, who became prominent in 1867, 1869, 1874, and especially in July 1872, when many wellknown politicians were implicated in a fantastic conspiracy for the establishment of an Iberian republic. Portuguese nationalism was too strong for these advocates of union with Spain, whose propaganda was discredited as soon as any national interest was seriously endangered.

The earlier advocates of artificial propagation and fish-hatching seem to have been under the impression that the thousands of fry resulting from a single act of artificial propagation meant a corresponding increase in the numbers of edible fish when once they had been deposited in suitable waters; and also that artificial fertilization ensured a greater proportion of fertilized eggs than the natural process.

In view of the increasing confusion in the Church, however, he became one of the most ardent advocates of the appeal to a general council.

The advocates of the one nature theory were called Monophysites (q.v.), and they gave rise to numerous sects, and to at least three separate national churches - the Jacobites of Syria, the Copts of Egypt and the Abyssinian Church, which are treated under separate headings.

He entered the faculty of advocates in 1800, and attached himself, not to the party of his relatives, who could have afforded him most valuable patronage, but to the Whig or Liberal party, and that at a time when it.

Many of the early converts to the New Church were among the most fervent advocates of the abolition of slavery, one was the medical officer of the first batch of convicts sent to Botany Bay; from the house of another, William Cookworthy of Plymouth, Captain Cook sailed on his last voyage.

In Congress he was conspicuous as a Radical Republican in Reconstruction legislation, and was one of the managers selected by the House to conduct the impeachment, before the Senate, of President Johnson, opening the case and taking the most prominent part in it on his side; he exercised a marked influence over President Grant and was regarded as his spokesman in the House, and he was one of the foremost advocates of the payment in "greenbacks" of the government bonds.

Acting upon these returns the legislature passed a bill prescribing the terms of separation, and directed another vote of the towns and plantations upon the question of separation and the election of delegates to a convention at Brunswick which should proceed to frame a constitution in case the second popular vote gave a majority of five to four for separation; but as that vote was only 11,969 yeas to 10,347 nays the advocates of separation were unsuccessful.

His practical common sense recoiled from the amazing conclusions which were drawn from it by many of its more eccentric advocates.

For many years afterwards, Bellarmine was held by Protestant advocates as the champion of the papacy, and a vindication of Protestantism generally took the form of an answer to his works.

By the advocates of radical reforms these measures were regarded as utterly inadequate, and even in Belgium, among those friendly to the Congo State system of administration, some uneasiness was excited by a letter which was published along with the decrees, wherein King Leopold intimated that certain conditions would attach to the inheritance he had designed for Belgium.

In the same pamphlet he defends an appeal to the emotions, and advocates preaching terror when necessary, even to children, who in God's sight " are young vipers.

It was this influence as exerted by the successive advocates of Holland, Paul Buys and Johan van Oldenbarneveldt, Johan van which rendered abortive the well-meant efforts of the Oldenbarneveldt.

His Arbeiterfrage advocates an ill-defined form of socialism.

After Lincoln's election as President he was one of the strongest advocates of secession in Virginia.

Some members of the profession purchased in 1567 a site near St Paul's, on which at their own expense they erected houses (destroyed in the great fire, but rebuilt in 1672) for the residence of the judges and advocates, and proper buildings for holding the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts.

The college consisted of a president (the dean of Arches for the time being) and of those doctors of law who, having regularly taken that degree in either of the universities of Oxford or Cambridge, and having been admitted advocates in pursuance of the rescript of the archbishop of Canterbury, were elected fellows in the manner prescribed by the charter.

They write as advocates rather than historians.

Hence came the curious paradox, that the party which started as the advocates of the rights of parliament against the incapable ministers appointed by the crown, ended by challenging the right of parliament, exercised in 399, to depose a legitimate king and substitute for him another member of the royal house.

He never forgot that the Yorkist party had started as the advocates of sound and strong administration, and the mandatonies of the popular will against the queens incapable and corrupt ministers.

The advocates of popular government, they were inviting parliament, for a second time, to suspend representative institutions in an important colony.

Next year a movement against subscription was begun in the General Synod of Ulster, culminating (1725) in the placing of the advocates of non-subscription, headed by John Abernethy, D.D., of Antrim, into a presbytery by themselves.

Flamininus was one of the first and most successful of the rising school of Roman statesmen, the opponents of the narrow patriotism of which Cato was the type, the disciples of Greek culture, and the advocates of a wide imperial policy.

The advocates of Louis could plead that all his actions down to the dissolution of the National Assembly came within the amnesty then granted, and that the Constitution had proclaimed his person inviolable, while enacting for certain offences the penalty of deposition which he had already undergone.

The objects which the advocates of a new calendar had in view were to strike a blow at the clergy and to divorce all calculations of time from the Christian associations with which they were loaded, in short, to abolish the Christian year; and enthusiasts were already speaking of "the first year of liberty" and "the first year of the republic" when the national convention took up the matter in 1793.

Descartes advocates a kind of freedom which is apparently consistent with forms both of determinism and indeterminism.

In more recent times the controversy has been concerned either with the attempted proof of determinism by the advocates of psychological Hedonism, an attempt which at the present time is generally admitted to have failed; or with the new biological knowledge concerning the influence of heredity and environment in its bearing upon the development of character and the possibility of freedom.

The advocates of freedom are content in the present day to postulate a relative power of influencing conduct, e.g.

There will never perhaps in any period of the world's history be wanting advocates of materialism, who find in the sensible the only reality.

The mistake of earlier advocates of determinism lay in the supposition that self-conscious moral action could be explained by the use of the same categories and upon the same hypotheses usually considered sufficient to explain the causal sequences observable in the physical world.

The advocates of self-determination maintain that conduct is never determined, in the sense in which, e.g.

Modern determinists differ from the earlier advocates of their theory in their endeavour to exhibit at least the compatibility of morality with the absence of freedom, if not the enhancement of moral values which, according to some of its advocates, follows upon the acceptance of the deterministic account of conduct.

On the voyage both became advocates of baptism by immersion, and being thus cut off from Congregationalism, they began independent work.

After the College of Advocates was incorporated and had established itself in Doctors' Commons, the archbishop's court of appeal, as well as his prerogative court, were usually held in the hall of the College of Advocates, but after the destruction of the buildings of the college, the court of appeal held its sittings, for the most part, in Westminster Hall.

The failure of " laissez-faire " individualism in politics to produce that common prosperity and happiness which its advocates hoped for caused men to question the egoistic basis upon which its ethical counterpart was constructed.

It was in Herbert Spencer, the triumphant " buccinator novi temporis," that the advocates of evolutionary ethics found.

He was secretary of the conference of advocates and one of the founders of the Societe de legislation comparee.

He answers the advocates of the retrenchment by pointing out that the public interest will not ultimately be served by a wholesale violation of the public faith.

It is no longer necessary to give an elaborate analysis of this theory, because neither in its philological nor mythological side has it any advocates who need be reckoned with.

On the outbreak of the Civil War, he denounced secession as criminal, and was one of the strongest advocates of maintaining the integrity of the Union at all hazards.

An illustration is, with the general run of mankind, more powerful to convince than an argument; and the cogency of the visible plea for the Copernican theory offered by the miniature system, then first disclosed to view, was recognizable in the triumph of its advocates as well as in the increased acrimony of its opponents.

He was allowed no advocates, nor the use of documents, pen or paper.

Modern scholars, however, for the most part, deny that there is sufficient basis to justify this elaborate classification, and think that its advocates have confused the catechumenate with the system of penance.

Some of his phrases have been often quoted by the advocates of peasant proprietorship as favouring their view.

The policy of state aid to internal improvements found advocates very early in spite of the Republican affiliations of the state, but a definite programme was not laid out until 1829, when commissioners for internal improvements were appointed and an expenditure of $150,000 was authorized.

It is ironic that someone who advocates investor discipline should show so little as a writer.

Why is it that people give up the doctrines of grace if they fall in with eloquent advocates of free will?

The magazine I then edited, New Society, was one of the fervent advocates of change.

Given that mental for children age britain single-payer advocates that hospitals end.

Bob Livingstone has requested that the solicitor advocates ' poster be put up.

This advocates that assessment is carried out in the following four areas; visual recording, critical thinking, practical research and personal development.

The terrorist attacks handed a temporary carte Blanche to missile defense advocates, with important implications for the disarmament agenda of the 21st century.

The terrorist attacks handed a temporary carte blanche to missile defense advocates, with important implications for the disarmament agenda of the 21st century.

Advocates is calling on DEFRA and SEERAD to reconsider and extend the definition of " animal " to include cephalopods and decapod crustaceans.

The approach he advocates could have been enormously helpful to women who were wrongly convicted of killing their dead children.

Advocates of " mercy killing, insist that many doctors practice euthanasia without declaring it.

The Faculty of advocates The faculty of advocates The Faculty has started to use its new complaints procedures, with marked success.

The program is provoking a furor among privacy advocates.

Clearly it is not a problem for advocates of spelling reform to find adequate graphemes to represent the full range of English phonemes.

Values are weakly anthropocentric and ecocentric Advocates forms of direct and cosmopolitan democracy with active citizenship Allows and promotes the greening of socialism.

Along with three rescued greyhounds, Advocates ' committee member, the Duchess of Hamilton, also lent her support on the day.

But the small minority of advocates boasted one particularly high-profile convert.

What was needed, he decided, was a 'club for employers', to bring together like-minded advocates of new ways of working.

The author advocates the use of popular culture to make this very complex issue palpable for undergraduates.

Like Benjamin before him, Sebald advocates a poetics of remembering that disrupts the continuity of historical tradition.

New Zealand also advocates the use of smart sanctions.

It is that the party advocates secession from Belgium and the establishment of a Republic of Flanders.

The Plunkett Foundation is an educational charity which advocates and supports economic self-help as an effective instrument for meeting the needs of rural communities.

Spencer as much as Mill, then, advocates indirect utilitarianism by featuring robust moral rights.

The Adult Learners ' Week award winners are powerful advocates to motivate others.

He was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates, and soon became known as an eloquent and successful pleader.

Marti, in his stimulating work Religion des A.T., pp. 5, 72, advocates the exclusive reference of the word Sabbath to the full moon until the time of Ezekiel on the basis of Meinhold's arguments in Sabbat u.

Though he laid no claim to originality and merely sought to collect and systematize the traditions of antiquity, his influence in the Far East has been unbounded, and he must be pronounced one of the most powerful advocates of peace and humanity that have ever existed.

Victorinus taught him rhetoric. He attended the law-courts, and listened to the Roman advocates pleading in the Forum.

The prosecution was conducted with all the force of the government; the defence was undertaken by some of the most brilliant Liberal advocates of Germany and developed in effect into an elaborate indictment, supported by a great weight of first-hand evidence, of the iniquities of the Russian rgime.

Then in December 530 a new commission was appointed, consisting of sixteen eminent lawyers, of whom the president, the famous Tribonian (who had already served on the previous commission), was an exalted official (quaestor), four were professors of law, and the remaining eleven practising advocates.

In financial matters they advocated the introduction of a gold standard and the removal of the agio on gold, also the introduction of foreign capital to develop industries in the country; and as regards foreign policy, they were strong advocates of intimate and friendly relations with Austria-Hungary.

The mountains in the neighbourhood were the home of the Diacrii or Hyperacrii, who, being poor mountaineers, and having nothing to lose, were the principal advocates of political reform; while, on the other hand, the Pedieis, or inhabitants of the plains, being wealthy landholders, formed the strong conservative element, and the Parali, or occupants of the sea-coast, representing the mercantile interest, held an intermediate position between the two (see Cleisthenes).

In the United States Judson married Emily Chubbuck (1817-1854), well-known as a poet and novelist under the name of "Fanny Forrester," who was one of the earliest advocates in America of the higher education of women.

It would be difficult to decide how much of the dispute between the advocates of pleasure theories and their opponents turns upon vexed questions of psychology, and how much is p ho strictly relevant to ethics.

It is clear that the man who advocates the conclusion of a peace, and that the Minister should command the army, does not love our sovereign and desires the ruin of us all.

Airport developments are usually controversial and invariably pitch the self-styled guardians of the environment against the advocates of economic growth.

Among advocates of relational subordination of women, with more or less fixed roles, see esp.

Its most successful advocates were the utopian socialists, in particular Robert Owen, back in the early 19th century.

There is no trace of professional advocates, but the plea had to be in writing and the notary doubtless assisted in the drafting of it.

Finally, the legislation of 1888 put into the hands of a reorganized Railway Commission and of the Board of Trade powers none the less important in principle because their action has been less in its practical effect than the advocates of active control demanded.

It advocates unity of the monetary system throughout the entire state, with strict integrity in the quality of the coin, and the charge of a seigniorage sufficient to cover the expenses of mintage.

In politics he advocates absolute equality - a democracy pushed to anarchy.