advocacy

Examples of advocating

advocating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Needless to say, we are not advocating for this situation to continue but considering a fact that was present while fertility was falling.
Thus, health workers' potential influence is minimized because their attitudes and behaviours mirror the community rather than advocating change to promote health.
At the same time, they consolidated cultural habits and managed to integrate the new standards they were advocating into the framework of well-tried models.
Abolitionists are traditionally divided into moderates advocating the use of legal instruments only, and radicals for whom any means were justified.
It wins popularity by advocating reforms in land tenure, private ownership and entitlement to land, which is still state owned.
Many promises of a world redeemed or renewed are incorporated into advocating women's causes.
In the state legislature, players usually advocating local control and reduction of state intervention find themselves opposing local government.
I spoke with her doctors frequently, communicating her concerns and advocating for her care.
Simulation models and research were the basis of recommendations for tick control strategies advocating approaches that reduced reliance on acaricides.
It also covers religious societies that are dedicated to advocating and spreading the creeds regarded by the rulers as fallacies threatening to their ideological hegemony.
There is in principle a conceptual gap between an argument for advocating a policy and an argument for the policy itself.
Priests preached a rosy afterlife in paradise, while advocating the benefits they could obtain in this life.
We speculated that this concept of core semantic knowledge may be a victim of the more detailed specification of knowledge types that we are advocating.
I am not advocating that archaeologists and museologists become professional historians.
The next sections will show that there is no empirical ground nor any theoretical ground for advocating age-based rationing of healthcare resources.
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