advocating
present participle ofadvocate
| 单词 | advocating |
| 释义 | advocating present participle ofadvocate advocate verb[T] uk/ˈæd.və.keɪt/us/ˈæd.və.keɪt/C2 topubliclysupportorsuggestanidea,development, or way of doing something: [+ -ing verb]She advocates takinga morelong-termview. He advocates thereturnofcapitalpunishment. to give someone advice
Backing, supporting & defending
Examplesofadvocatingadvocating 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 notadvocatingfor this situation to continue but considering a fact that was present while fertility was falling. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, health workers' potential influence is minimized because their attitudes and behaviours mirror the community rather thanadvocatingchange to promote health. From theCambridge English Corpus At the same time, they consolidated cultural habits and managed to integrate the new standards they wereadvocatinginto the framework of well-tried models. From theCambridge English Corpus Abolitionists are traditionally divided into moderatesadvocatingthe use of legal instruments only, and radicals for whom any means were justified. From theCambridge English Corpus It wins popularity byadvocatingreforms in land tenure, private ownership and entitlement to land, which is still state owned. From theCambridge English Corpus Many promises of a world redeemed or renewed are incorporated intoadvocatingwomen's causes. From theCambridge English Corpus In the state legislature, players usuallyadvocatinglocal control and reduction of state intervention find themselves opposing local government. From theCambridge English Corpus I spoke with her doctors frequently, communicating her concerns andadvocatingfor her care. From theCambridge English Corpus Simulation models and research were the basis of recommendations for tick control strategiesadvocatingapproaches that reduced reliance on acaricides. From theCambridge English Corpus It also covers religious societies that are dedicated toadvocatingand spreading the creeds regarded by the rulers as fallacies threatening to their ideological hegemony. From theCambridge English Corpus There is in principle a conceptual gap between an argument foradvocatinga policy and an argument for the policy itself. From theCambridge English Corpus Priests preached a rosy afterlife in paradise, whileadvocatingthe benefits they could obtain in this life. From theCambridge English Corpus We speculated that this concept of core semantic knowledge may be a victim of the more detailed specification of knowledge types that we areadvocating. From theCambridge English Corpus I am notadvocatingthat archaeologists and museologists become professional historians. From theCambridge English Corpus The next sections will show that there is no empirical ground nor any theoretical ground foradvocatingage-based rationing of healthcare resources. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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