(n.) A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The film, which also stars Michael Fassbender as a sadistic plantation owner – as well as Brad Pitt, who is also the producer, in a minor role as an abolitionist – is leading the charge for next month's Golden Globes (alongside David O Russell's American Hustle) with seven nominations .
(2) The abolitionists' arguments might work if every woman selling sex was desperate to stop doing so, and if there was a comprehensive support package in place to help women exit prostitution and provide them with lucrative, alternative employment.
(3) Among the list of eminent speakers on the platform at the inaugural meeting in November 1955 – at the Central Methodist hall in Westminster – was the novelist JB Priestley, Lord Pakenham (later Lord Longford, a member of the incoming Labour government in 1964, and a lifelong penal reformer), Gerald Gardiner QC (Labour’s lord chancellor from 1964-70) as Lord Gardiner, a passionate law reformer and ardent abolitionist, and CH Rolph (a prominent writer and a former inspector of police in the City of London).
(4) Wilberforce discovered that the state can sometimes "be an impediment to change", Hague noted, a selective interpretation of the complex abolitionist story.
(5) It capped a celebration of Pelé started by the presentation of an honorary degree by Hofstra University this weekend — itself the centerpiece of one of the largest soccer conferences ever held in the USA, 'Soccer as the Beautiful Game: Football’s Artistry, Identity and Politics' featuring over 100 speakers from around the world, including the likes of David Goldblatt ('The Ball is Round') and an intriguing proposition from Dr Jennifer Doyle, of the University of California, Riverside: 'Imagining a World Without a World Cup: An Abolitionist Perspective'.
(6) He began seeing women other than his sisters, and women, moreover, who were at the forefront of social and educational reform - like Margaret Fuller, feminist and abolitionist, and Elizabeth Peabody, who founded the kindergarten movement in America.
(7) His later years, as the preachments of abolitionists and slaveholders reached their shrill adumbration of bloody war, were marked, even made notorious, by his fiery championing of John Brown, whom he had briefly met in Concord, finding him "a man of great common sense, deliberate and practical", endowed with "tact and prudence" and the Spartan habits and spare diet of a soldier.
(8) These little colleges that were founded by abolitionists are often unaware of their origins - that they were integrated schools before the civil war."
(9) Abolitionists believe the UK should be proud of the stand it took back then to abandon capital punishment.
(10) From them it goes to the abolitionists and peace crusaders of the years before the Civil War, the anarchists and pacifists at the beginning of this century, the sit-down strikers of the 1930s and the conscientious objectors of two world wars.
(11) Trump called 19th-century activist, writer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more”.
(12) Think of the abolitionists who struggled and died to see the end of slavery.
(13) The fact that only two of the nine justices used the opportunity to reviewthe death penalty – the first of its kind since 2008 – to question whether capital punishment was in itself constitutional is an indication of the hard work abolitionists still have to do in effecting a nationwide ban on the practice.
(14) QT : He dropped her off in Philadelphia and she's working for the abolitionists.
(15) Although he concluded with a call for unity, the president’s remarks were broadly focused on paying tribute to leaders of the abolitionist movement, such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
(16) Following his rescue, he became involved in the abolitionist movement and lectured on slavery in the north-east US.
(17) The French Socialists would like their abolitionist stance to be mirrored in Europe , namely in the country they see as closest in its attitude to prostitution: the UK.
(18) Sanders went on to quote the 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass, saying: “Freedom doesn’t come without struggle.” Martin O'Malley (@MartinOMalley) #blacklivesmatter .
(19) One of the prime arguments used by abolitionists was that the massive costs of Maryland's death row were being carried by all of the state's taxpayers, when the overwhelming number of the inmates had come from just one county – Baltimore.
(20) The exhaustive notes (250 pages of them) are often considerably more informative, factually speaking, than Twain: he never mentions, for example, that his father-in-law was an abolitionist who served as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, helped Frederick Douglass to escape and became his friend.
Advocate
Definition:
(n.) One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.
(n.) One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.
(n.) Christ, considered as an intercessor.
(n.) To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
(v. i.) To act as advocate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(2) Cholecystectomy is advocated in symptomatic patients with this condition, even when gallstones are not present.
(3) These results provide further data which counter the sometimes extreme advocates of the view that compulsory admission and treatment of patients with psychiatric illness is never acceptable.
(4) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
(5) They have informed, advocated and sometimes goaded participants in a way that will be entirely familiar to people in Europe.
(6) Advocates would point to the influence Giggs maintains in the United midfield – developing a more creative game from a central role to compensate for the loss of his once blistering pace.
(7) Many leave banking after three to five years, not because they are 'worn out', but because now they have financial security to start their own business or go on to advocate for a cause they are passionate about or buy a small cottage in the West Country for the rest of their lives."
(8) Tony Abbott urges Europe to adopt Australian policies in refugee crisis Read more Given that Obama – whatever one’s views on his strategy – is not advocating a bigger military contribution, the only difference is that Abbott is “urging” the US and others to do more, which sounds resolute, and Turnbull says he would consider any request if it was made.
(9) Particularly, the passive mechanism concept to explain obstructive sleep apnea during REM sleep advocated by Remmers and Guilleminault has substantially contributed to the recent development of research activities in this field.
(10) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(11) Juliette Touma, Unicef’s spokeswoman in Jordan, said: “The focus in the past week has been on the refugees in Europe, but it is important to make the link to Syria, where 70% to 80% [of them] have come from.” She said the UK has been one of its biggest donors, but the public can help by giving cash and becoming advocates, writing to their MPs and holding fundraising events.
(12) After the formal PIRC inquiry was triggered by the lord advocate, Frank Mulholland, Bayoh’s family said police gave them five different accounts of what had happened before eventually being told late on Sunday afternoon how he died.
(13) It is advocated that antibiotics be given parenterally for the full course of therapy because of the seriousness of the infection and the importance of high blood and tissue levels.
(14) Physicians are urged to reject involvement in rationing as inconsistent with their role as patient advocates and to support technology assessment, fee revisions, and more stringent self regulation as ways to discourage malpractice suits.
(15) The spectrum of bacteria isolated makes it unlikely that the specific anti-pneumococcal measures widely advocated in Europe and America for young children with SCA would be appropriate in Nigeria.
(16) Before that he was a small business owner and consumer advocate, and played first-grade rugby for Sydney’s southern districts.
(17) This article reviews different approaches that have been advocated by the College of American Pathologists, by the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, and by manufacturers of diagnostic methods and controls.
(18) Privacy advocates argue this reflects an alarming ease of access, even though agencies should make every effort to ensure the invasion of privacy is justified by the importance to the public of solving a crime or recovering money.
(19) When I lived in New York, my local yoga centre would advocate veganism in terms I hadn't heard since I last went to synagogue ("godly") or spoke regularly to anorexics ("clean", "pure").
(20) The advocates had attempted to get a decision by filing lawsuits directly with the supreme court rather than through an appeal of a lower court decision.