0 past simple and past participle of advocate --
1 to publicly support or suggest an idea, development, or way of doing something: --
He advocates the return of capital punishment.
[ + -ing verb ] She advocates taking a more long-term view.
In the last simulation, a full land tenure privatization policy experiment is implemented, but under present informational structures; the policy strongly advocated presently by policymakers.
Two commonly advocated methods of describing results, risk differences (or the inverse: numbers needed to treat) and weighted mean differences, create difficulties in meta-analysis.
However, conservatives advocated a more gradual and less thoroughgoing transition to commercial agriculture than even moderate liberals.
They faced ancient and distinguished cultures, many of whose tenets were diametrically opposed to those they advocated.
However, the approach being advocated here departs from the class approach.
Furthermore, as the intended objectives were gradually achieved, a switch to more flexible systems - either a managed float or a crawling peg - was advocated.
All advocated a mixed system, combining elements of both the public and private sectors.
Years later even some of those who had advocated modified study design expressed reservations.
