I. verb
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devil's advocate
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He would play devil’s advocate with anyone.
play devil’s advocate
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He would play devil’s advocate with anyone.
staunch supporter/ally/advocate
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one of Bush’s staunchest supporters
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■ ADVERB
strongly
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Bulleid strongly advocated the need for new and more powerful steam locomotives and obtained authority for this.
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Now they say she had not advocated strongly enough for her patient.
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We strongly advocate sustainable use of coastal resources, which includes the exploitation of minerals.
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I also strongly advocate an interactive process, with extensive employee involvement.
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He strongly advocated the greater efficiency derived from the concentration of Government Offices in the Whitehall area, close to the Treasury.
■ NOUN
approach
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This opinion is held by those who advocate a cognitive approach to learning.
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Here we must pause to acknowledge that Morgenthau does not always advocate a scientific approach as he did in Politics among Nations.
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That leaves Bush, in Texas, poised to reach national prominence as a Republican advocating a cooler approach to the issue.
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Instead, we advocate an alternative approach that dispenses with universalistic definitions and the testing of these.
change
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The Commission does not advocate change for its own sake.
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He also advocated sweeping changes in education.
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Rather than supporting the statusquo, the way things are, utopian ideologies advocate a complete change in the structure of society.
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It is human nature to advocate change in some one else's affairs whilst vigorously opposing its necessity in one's own.
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While supporting change to allow the Crown the right of appeal against too lenient sentences, I would advocate another change.
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The recommendations advocated widespread changes in the criminal law.
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Where Marxism is seen to advocate radical change , functionalism is seen to justify and legitimate the statusquo.
measure
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It is believed to advocate measures such as fuel substitution and energy efficiency.
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Now he is advocating other measures .
party
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As the basis of its policy, the Labour party has advocated such a conference.
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Last month the Southern party , which advocates secession, won its first mayoral victory, in a village in Alabama.
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Labour is the only party which could advocate that.
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The party programme advocates the closure of all nuclear power stations and the reform of the industrial system.
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The majority of people voted in favour of parties that advocate the inclusion of the social chapter, but the Government rejects it.
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Contrary to Party philosophy, he advocated higher taxation of the wealthy.
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That is what we mean when we say that the Labour party is advocating an envy tax.
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The Labour party advocates that in addition to its well-known policies of intervention, control and regulation.
policy
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A transport policy which advocates private cars is not a policy which protects the environment.
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Apart from the final point, these were no different from the policies being advocated by the Liberals.
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The use of regional, social, and technology policies is also advocated to aid in the restructuring process.
reform
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If heroin use proves relatively harmless to all concerned then we should advocate legal reform and controlled availability.
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Those who advocated reform argued consistently that it ought not to be interpreted as a permissive move for two reasons.
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The great majority of national daily and weekly newspapers have strongly and consistently advocated the reform .
system
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To counteract Western influence Soviet officials advocated a system of collective security.
use
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But he denied throwing fire bombs or advocating their use .
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We strongly advocate sustainable use of coastal resources, which includes the exploitation of minerals.
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He advocated the use of an industrial measuring projector for this purpose.
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Hughes advocated the use of low potencies prescribed on pathological grounds rather than on the patient's general symptom picture.
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To counter the falling levels of atmospheric sulphur he advocates the use of sulphur fertilizers.
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Unlike Xenophon, however, Grisone advocated the use of extreme punishment, violence, and brute force.
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Shirley MacLaine advocates their use and Tina Turner never travels without them.
view
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What I am advocating is balanced view of your own work and a more sensible approach to its shortcomings.
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And like the new managers, the subordinates had advocated a rather one-sided view of those interface obligations.
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Austen thus advocates a conditional view of women's freedom within society.
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Some extremists are now openly advocating violence.
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They advocated state control of all public services.
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He advocates the instinct, the imagination, the unconsciousness, by means of the intelligence which he esteems so far beneath them ....
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No one is advocating producing more of this material, as some fear.
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Others still advocate genetic engineering of plants and animals as the greatest single technology that will feed the world.
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Prevalent conservation orthodoxy advocates protection through production.
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The Law Lords ruling has advocated inequality resulting in some of Equitable's investors being treated far more favourably than others.
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These were the people who advocated using force to stop abortion.
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We were the only ones advocating for the victim.
II. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
early
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More pointedly, had the early advocates of the power school actually won out?
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Licklider was an early advocate of computer interactivity.
great
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He said bluntly that he was a great advocate of a proper observance of status and rank.
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She, the great advocate of the Freedom of the Individual.
leading
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One of the leading advocates of Green 2000, Sara Parkin, subsequently became chair of the party's executive.
staunch
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Nevertheless, even the staunchest advocates of non-legal solutions to truancy seem to accept that legal procedures must continue to be available.
strong
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He was, and is, a strong advocate of the position that the right people make the system.
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Birmingham, once a labor lawyer, is expected to be a strong advocate on such issues as the minimum wage.
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She is one of the strongest advocates of the case for a Labour organisation to be set up in the province.
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Kresge was a strong advocate of savings.
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I've always been a strong advocate of public service broadcasting, such an important element in this influential means of communication.
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Being active in student government has also helped, because she has learned from other students who are strong advocates .
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In fact, Sinclair was a strong advocate of caution and moderation.
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Here is one great advantage of having a strong advocate .
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Behavior, advocates of this approach argued, was determined by its consequences.
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Clinton was seen as a strong advocate for a variety of educational improvements.
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He is wrong, they argue, in considering a pro-choice advocate for vice president.
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He was noted for his prodigious memory, was deeply religious, and a staunch advocate of temperance.
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The club has vigorously defended the mayor against attacks by other disabled advocates who say Brown has done little for them.
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The most substantive problem, which advocates try to hide, is that the flat tax is a sop to the rich.
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The National Rifle Association and other advocates of firearms rights are expected to vigorously oppose these proposals.