(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.
Solicitor
Definition:
(n.) One who solicits.
(n.) An attorney or advocate; one who represents another in court; -- formerly, in English practice, the professional designation of a person admitted to practice in a court of chancery or equity. See the Note under Attorney.
(n.) The law officer of a city, town, department, or government; as, the city solicitor; the solicitor of the treasury.
Example Sentences:
(1) Defendants on legal aid will no longer be able to choose their solicitor.
(2) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(3) A defence solicitor, Mike Schwarz from Bindmans, said his clients would be appealing to the high court.
(4) Chambers' solicitor, David Allen Green, director of media at Preiskel and Co, welcomed the guidelines as "a step forward".
(5) That police sources were making such claims was confirmed by Taylor's solicitor, who told MPs that a named police sergeant had told him that 6,000 people may have had their phones hacked into.
(6) But she did back moves advocated by the Solicitor-General, Oliver Heald, to place a duty on parents to protect their children and make it illegal to permit their daughters to be mutilated.
(7) As Public Interest Lawyers , the rather inspiring firm of solicitors that took on the test case said: "You should not believe the DWP when it says that the judgment makes no difference.
(8) Nonetheless, the NSA persuaded Erwin Griswold, the former dean of Harvard law school, the then solicitor general of the United States, to knowingly lie to the United States supreme court that it was still a secret.
(9) The solicitor did a search, they went through the parish records and local histories, they got a sworn statement from the vendors: in the 150-plus years since it was built, the farm had never flooded.
(10) The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations.
(11) RBS says Green & Co is the "practising name of solicitors employed by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group", while Lloyds says SCM is "part of the in-house litigation department of Lloyds Banking Group ".
(12) Its submissions to the consultation, which it forced the MoJ to rerun, states: “There will certainly be plenty of redundancies among qualified solicitors … Given the rates of pay under the new scheme, firms will not be recruiting qualified solicitors but unqualified paralegals.” Nicola Hill, president of the LCCSA, said: “We’re seeing the effect of a policy which puts the cost of justice above its value.
(13) Austin's solicitors, Christian Khan, say their client's case was hampered by highly prejudicial findings by the judge in that case, Mr Justice Tugendhat.
(14) Margaret Finch and Sean Mcloughlin Directors, TRP solicitors, Birmingham
(15) Solicitors, conveyancers and mortgage lenders are reporting a rush to complete house purchases before the reintroduction of stamp duty on properties costing less than £175,000 on 1 January.
(16) Hockey made the order after receiving advice from the government solicitor.
(17) Coulson, who is now David Cameron's communications director, voluntarily attended a meeting with the Metropolitan police at a solicitor's office last Thursday, 4 November.
(18) Carole Berry, of Rollingsons Solicitors, said: "I had a simultaneous exchange of contracts on the 23 December to make sure the deal went through in time.
(19) All customer letters from DG Solicitors were compliant with the OFT debt recovery rules, and made clear that the firm was a trading name of HSBC and that its people were HSBC employees.
(20) If there is justice for Mark some of this sadness will end.” The family’s solicitor, Cyrilia Davies Knight, from Birnberg Peirce solicitors, said: “There are serious questions about whether this highly trained police officer, who shot Mark in broad daylight from an unobstructed view a few metres away from him, made a mistake that was reasonable and lawful.” She added: “A death of this kind is the cause of uniquely intense public concern as demonstrated by the disturbances after Mark’s death.