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active support of an idea or cause — especially verbal support

She is a member of several anti-poverty advocacy groups.

As part of our advocacy work with the Malala Fund, we went to the White House to meet Barack Obama.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

advocacy = active support of an idea or cause

A few months after that, in October 2011, my father told me he had received an email informing him I was one of five nominees for the international peace prize of KidsRights, a children's advocacy group based in Amsterdam.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

advocacy = active support of an idea or cause

Her advocacy did not make Amelia angry any more than Rebecca's admiration of him.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Her interest in advocacy began with a leaflet on global activism handed to her outside a subway station.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
Priests openly involved in civil rights advocacy were menaced with rumors that they were immorally involved with women.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
That "uncritical advocacy of freedom from all discipline" sounded a lot like Professor Appleman.
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
They carried me forward with their noise and the power of their advocacy.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
Smuggled-out information that we were on a hunger strike would elicit newspaper stories, which in turn would generate pressure from advocacy groups.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
The letter writers were mobilized by Equality Now, an advocacy organization based in New York that tackles abuses of women around the world.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
As you may possibly know, my husband is prominent in Congregational circles all through the state for his advocacy of church-union.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
Their ancient voices, tinged with a centuries-old advocacy of faith and duty, sounded like calls to action.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
The twelve members of the commission were lawyers, policemen, executive directors of victim's advocacy organizations.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
In the advocacy of sea defenses he stood second to none.
David McCullough -- John Adams
It had been preceded by an equal zeal for socialism, which had in turn replaced an energetic advocacy of Christian Science.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
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.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
'I am much obliged to you for your kind advocacy of my cause when it most needed an advocate,' said the young man, laughing, and drawing a card from his pocket.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
Others demonstrated courage through their acceptance of compromise, through their advocacy of conciliation, through their willingness to replace conflict with co-operation.
John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
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.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
The duteous merciful constancy of his wife had delivered him from one dread, but it could not hinder her presence from being still a tribunal before which he shrank from confession and desired advocacy.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch

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