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As part of our advocacy work with the Malala Fund, we went to the White House to meet Barack Obama. (source)advocacy = active support of an idea or cause
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He was also able to forgive, or overlook, the shortcomings of his literary heroes: Jack London was a notorious drunk; Tolstoy, despite his famous advocacy of celibacy, had been an enthusiastic sexual adventurer as young man and went on to father at least thirteen children, some of whom were conceived at the same time the censorious count was thundering in print against the evils of sex.† (source)
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Today, dozens of legal organizations hand out awards in the fictional lawyer's name to celebrate the model of advocacy described in Lee's novel.† (source)
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This kind of citizen advocacy is essential to create change.† (source)
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This group, which counts StigmaBuster Stella March as one of its pioneers, has become the largest advocacy and support group in the nation, and many of its members campaign to relax laws that make it difficult to forcibly treat someone who's mentally ill.† (source)
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An older woman from a victim's advocacy group blinked.† (source)
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They read her relentless advocacy for her players as haughtiness, and a lack of appreciation for what the YMCA had provided the Fugees: use of its bus, as well as financial and logistical support.† (source)
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A rift had opened between them after the trial when Cyril had not joined in his procession; those advocacies of the girl had increased it; then came the post-cards from Venice, so cold, so unfriendly that all agreed that something was wrong; and finally, after a silence, the expected letter from Hampstead.† (source)advocacies = active support of an idea or cause
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In the advocacy of sea defenses he stood second to none.† (source)
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That "uncritical advocacy of freedom from all discipline" sounded a lot like Professor Appleman.† (source)
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Smuggled-out information that we were on a hunger strike would elicit newspaper stories, which in turn would generate pressure from advocacy groups.† (source)
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Their ancient voices, tinged with a centuries-old advocacy of faith and duty, sounded like calls to action.† (source)
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Her interest in advocacy began with a leaflet on global activism handed to her outside a subway station.† (source)
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Priests openly involved in civil rights advocacy were menaced with rumors that they were immorally involved with women.† (source)
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They carried me forward with their noise and the power of their advocacy.† (source)
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Others demonstrated courage through their acceptance of compromise, through their advocacy of conciliation, through their willingness to replace conflict with co-operation.† (source)
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