What's the difference between advocate and apostle?

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.

Apostle


Definition:

  • (n.) Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the gospel.
  • (n.) The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance.
  • (n.) A brief letter dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty courts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are dismissed as the work of liberal interferers and apostles of the nanny state.
  • (2) He became a member of the legendary Cambridge Apostles.
  • (3) 7.31pm GMT He blesses them in the name of the apostles and the saints.
  • (4) "I have felt like St Peter with the Apostles in the boat on the Sea of Galilee: the Lord has given us many days of sunshine and gentle breeze, days in which the catch has been abundant; [then] there have been times when the seas were rough and the wind against us … and the Lord seemed to be sleeping," he said.
  • (5) Mother Mary Clare Millea, the superior general of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, who headed the investigation, broke down briefly when she reached the passage of her prepared statement in which she thanked the cardinal and his deputy “for responding to us with sensitivity, respect and clarity”.
  • (6) The ceremony has been traditionally limited to men because all of Jesus' apostles were male.
  • (7) Conrad von Soest depicted an apostle in reading glasses in the Niederwildungen Altarpiece in 1403, and there are mentions of the use of eyeglasses dating back to antiquity.
  • (8) The apostles of apartheid saw him as dangerously subversive; his friends took him to be hopelessly naive.
  • (9) Among other things, we asked them to identify the first book of the New Testament from a choice of Matthew, Genesis, Acts of the Apostles, Psalms, "Don't know" and "Prefer not to say".
  • (10) The pope travelled to the Casal del Marmo prison on Rome's outskirts for the traditional mass, which commemorates Jesus's gesture of humility towards his apostles the night before he died.
  • (11) When the apostle tries to fill an existential emptiness in his heart by accumulating material goods, not because he needs them but because he’ll feel more secure.” 14) Forming closed circles that seek to be stronger than the whole.
  • (12) If King, an apostle of non-violence and advocate for the poorest of the poor, were alive today, what would he make of President Obama's careless-with-life drone assassinations, his bullying of journalists and whistleblowers, his assent to slashing Social Security via his Scrooge-like "deficit commission"?
  • (13) Ken Russell , who has died aged 84, was so often called rude names – the wild man of British cinema, the apostle of excess, the oldest angry young man in the business – that he gave up denying it all quite early in his career.
  • (14) It continues to be split between globalisers, liberal interventionists and pro-Europeans, and the Blue Labour apostles of localism and disengagement.
  • (15) The patron saint of the British Industrial Revolution was Francis Bacon, the great Elizabethan philosopher and crusading apostle for science.
  • (16) Despite the fact the F1 commission and strategy group meetings in Geneva were largely a fudge, with a final decision on the most important changes postponed for another two months, Ecclestone, the F1 chief executive, said: “I think now I’m a bit more confident we are going to see some good racing.” Even Paul the Apostle did not change this quickly.
  • (17) His doctoral dissertation (1837) was the first monograph on tenotomy ever published, and he became the apostle of this operation for the correction of skeletal deformity secondary to neuromuscular disease.
  • (18) I saw seven hours of Mark Watson’s first 24-hour show and that seemed to kick- start, or be part of, an exciting shift towards comedy as an event – in that case an endurance event, although it seemed to free Mark (and everyone else) up, so he became some mad seer with a band of apostles.
  • (19) The apostles have conducted a 30-year global experiment, and the results are now in.
  • (20) The buyers at Debenhams reassure top brass: “We are working with Playboy to perfect the Easter Playboy Bunny look – perfect for Campari-fuelled nights out in this exciting post-feminist era.” Are you hiding an apostle?