2847 examples of advocate in sentences

He would remind the jury that only a few weeks ago he stood there as the advocate of a powerful company, then represented by the present defendant.

He is a poet, a philosopher, an artist, an engineer, a military commander, an advocate, an attorney, a financier, a steam-engine, a telegraph-operator, a servant-of-all-work, a Job, a Hercules, and a Bonaparte, rolled into one.

" In the debate in Congress, Jan. 20, 1806, on Mr. Sloan's motion to lay a tax on the importation of slaves, Mr. Clark of Va. said: "He was no advocate for a system of slavery."

Such an appeal, addressed to Osiris in the presence of Isis, from the son born under such remarkable circumstances was, the Egyptian thought, certain of acceptance; and the offspring of a father, after the death of whose body he was begotten, was naturally the best advocate for the deceased.

Admitted as an Advocate, ii. 20. 1767 Is acquainted with men of eminence, ii. 13, n. 3.

Cullen, Robert, the advocate (afterwards Lord Cullen), case of Knight the negro, iii. 127, 213; a good mimic, ii. 154, n. 1; mentioned, v. 44-5. Culloden, Battle of, cruelties after it, v. 159, 196; Johnson's indifference as to the result, i. 430; the news reaches London, v. 196, n. 3; order of the clans, ii. 270, n. 1; Pretender's criticism of the battle, v. 194; mentioned, v. 140, 187, 190.

FERGUSON, James, a Scotch advocate, iii. 213, 214, n. 1.

(In the Michigan Christian advocate, v. 49, no. 17) © 26Apr22, A641225.

R70404, 21Nov50, The Mark Twain Co. (PWH) THE ADVOCATE, a play in three acts by Eugene Brieux.

GOSPEL ADVOCATE

(In The Christian advocate, Aug. 25, 1949)

Not until quite a recent date were we inclined to advocate "women's rights," which is but another nameas modernly interpretedfor the ballot.

There are some who declaim against the use of any and all kinds of meat for food, and advocate a purely vegetable diet.

One day while in this state of feeling she overheard her father conversing with a friend on the awful case of Francis Spira,[Footnote: "Francis Spira an advocate of Padua, Ann. 1545, that being desperate, by no counsell of learned men could be comforted; he felt, as he said, the pains of hell in his soule, in all other things he discoursed aright; but in this most mad.

Of course he did not dare to avow his schemes with entire frankness, only venturing to advocate them more or less openly accordingly as the wind of popular opinion veered towards or away from disunion.

As for Sevier, when he saw that he was baffled he suddenly became a Federalist and an advocate of a strong Central Government; and this, doubtless, not because of love for Federalism, but to show his hostility to North Carolina, which had at first refused to enter the new Union.

Mounier constantly directed the decisions of the third (estate); he restrained and enlightened young Barnave, advocate in the court, who, for lack of his counsels, was destined to frequently go astray hereafter.

Having committed himself so openly by his "vivas" and his public remarks in the port, he felt it due to his own character to justify all he had said, and Raoul Yvard could not have desired a warmer advocate than he had in the podestà.

"And while you were playing advocate, Master Raoul Yvard coolly lifted his anchor and walked out of the bay as if he were just stepping into his garden to pick a nosegay for his sweetheart!"

" "I think so too," said Henry; "but he must be a good lawyer before he can be a good advocate,though that isn't the popular idea.

We are not of the number of those who would abandon the assertion of a principle quoad another country, the wisdom and expediency of which we have advocated, and are still prepared to advocate, in its regulated application to our own, from the sordid motive of benefiting British manufactures to the ruin of those of Spain.

The abolition of the so-called "conciertos" of matches and petroleum had also occupied them, and in this case successfully; but the directors complained of the apathy and the indifference of the public in general for the objects which the Chamber of Commerce was organized to advocate and promote, and they state that within the last year the number of associates had diminished.

The most determined advocate of freedom of discussion must find it hard to disapprove of the suppression of the "Univers," which, while availing itself of every possible license to advocate the extremest doctrines of despotism in Church and State, demanded the suppression of freedom of all kinds in every other quarter.

The most determined advocate of freedom of discussion must find it hard to disapprove of the suppression of the "Univers," which, while availing itself of every possible license to advocate the extremest doctrines of despotism in Church and State, demanded the suppression of freedom of all kinds in every other quarter.

It is an advantage to the enemies of free speech, that they can avail themselves of its existence to advocate restriction in its comprehensive sense, while their opponents cannot consistently demand that they shall be silenced.

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