(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.
Bailiff
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted.
(n.) A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.
(n.) An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Figures from the Ministry of Justice show that 11,100 properties were repossessed by bailiffs between July and September this year , the highest quarterly figure since records began in 2000.
(2) Data obtained by the Guardian last year showed that government cuts to council tax benefits had left 670,000 facing bailiffs in the first six months of 2013.
(3) In around 1300, the peasants of Bocking in Essex (later a centre of the 1381 peasants’ revolt) appealed to Magna Carta in a struggle against their lord’s bailiff.
(4) The company got an emergency injunction from the high court and without warning bailiffs evicted us early on Christmas Eve.
(5) After initially insisting that the first anyone in the government knew about the £1.7bn was when Jean-Claude Juncker sent in the bailiffs on Friday, he later admitted that George Osborne might just have learned about it three days earlier and forgotten to tell him.
(6) Applied nationwide, it would cut bailiff interventions by around 150,000 and save the government about £30m.
(7) Police and enforcement officers then moved to evict squatters from another building in the complex, also owned by a subsidiary of the Swiss banking group, during which observers claim a photographer was punched in the face by a bailiff who then allegedly drove his car towards at least one person and carried another on his bonnet for 50 yards.
(8) In a survey of 500 people who had been pursued by bailiffs over council tax debts, 38% said they were charged fees for visits that were never made.
(9) Unlike some rival organisations, Wonga doesn't use bailiffs to force people to pay money, and has developed a "hardship team" to deal with clients who are unable to pay, but some clients have had difficulties persuading Wonga to stop taking payments out of their account.
(10) Police are ready to give the fullest support to the bailiffs to execute the court order tomorrow,” the statement said.
(11) Nobody wants anyone to go to prison for non-payment of anything, but you have to consider what the other options are – civil remedies, bailiffs, are equally not a very pleasant way to go down,” she said.
(12) Once it became apparent that eviction – involving police and bailiffs – was on the cards, he knew he could no longer continue.
(13) Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: "Bailiff firms must treat people fairly and make sure their actions aren't driving people deeper into unmanageable debt.
(14) No locksmith can defeat it, no bailiff kick it in; patrolling policemen pass it, because it is visible only to the eye of faith.
(15) One of the black-clad court bailiffs with automatic weapons who sit beside the dock has closed his eyes.
(16) When the bailiffs arrived, they gave the protesters a notice in the name of Finchley and Golders Green Conservative association asking them to vacate the premises under common law, a rarely used legal route.
(17) Researchers say that more than 500,000 of the families at risk from the bailiffs have a taxable income of less than £20,000.
(18) Poor Jeremy Hunt , condemned by the cycle of contract negotiations to find himself pitched against them, like a bailiff come to evict the sisters of mercy.
(19) In five days' time, police and bailiffs will evict her and several dozen householders , some of whom have squatted the property for more than 30 years.
(20) Sir Geoffrey Rowland, the current bailiff of Guernsey, told the researchers: "It is an immensely important archive, demonstrating their bravery and courage.