9 sentences with “advocate”

In the manifesto, the authors advocate for equal rights.

It is results like these that make the pain and hardship that this unique anti-smoking advocate endures worthwhile.

Although he was a tireless advocate of reason and justice, it is also important to note the ambiguities of Voltaire's philosophy.

He was also an advocate of translations of the Bible into vernacular languages, although he himself did not produce such a translation.

The Victorian bourgeoisie was an advocate of the idea that everyone got what they deserved and that science itself would eventually ratify the social order.

Only Rousseau was bold enough to advocate a republican form of government as a viable alternative to monarchy, and his political ideas were far less well known during his lifetime than his ruminations on education, nature and morality.

Locke was also a great advocate of religious toleration; he even had the audacity to point out that people tended to be of whatever religion prevailed in their family and social context, so it was ridiculous for anyone to claim exclusive access to religious truth.

For that small portion of educated society that could read and had access to foreign books, even to discuss politics, let alone advocate reforms of any kind, was a punishable crime, with thousands exiled to Siberia for the crime of having made an off-hand comment on politics or possessing a book describing a political concept originating in the West.

Despite being an enthusiastic advocate of 'enlightened' philosophy, Catherine the Great was as focused on Russian expansion as Peter I had been half a century earlier, seizing the Crimean peninsula from the Ottoman Empire, expanding Russian power in Central Asia and completely extinguishing Polish independence, with Poland divided between Russia, Prussia and Austria in 1795. At his death in 1796, Russia was more powerful than ever.