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 advocacy ['ædvәkәsi]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 拥护, 支持, 鼓吹, 辩护, 辩护术

[法] 辩护, 拥护, 提倡


  1. Advocacy of such a system of government.
    联邦主义这种政府体制的主张
  2. Advocacy of causes in court.
    辩护法庭中案件的辩护
  3. Advocacy of the abolition of slavery.
    废奴主义废除奴隶制的主张


advocacy
[ noun ]
active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something
<noun.act>


Advocacy \Ad"vo*ca*cy\, n. [OF. advocatie, LL. advocatia. See
{Advocate}.]
The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating;
intercession.

  1. Mr. Kennan's advocacy of containment was inappropriate 40 years ago, though its application today can be rewarding in denying the Soviets the ability to intimidate the West and obtain support for a crumbling social and economic system.
  2. The program is operated by the John Doe Fund, an advocacy group for the homeless.
  3. Evans granted a preliminary injunction requested by the advocacy group Legal Action of Wisconsin on behalf of six Milwaukee families whose AFDC benefits were cut by Learnfare.
  4. After protests and lawsuits by advocacy groups, Congress enacted legislation in 1986 broadening the grounds for admission but left discretion in the hands of the director of the Office of Personnel Management.
  5. Laurie Flynn, executive director of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, an advocacy group of about 100,000 patient families, urged Sandoz to reduce the price of clozapine.
  6. "We're planning on going back in as soon as people are released," said Charles Viebahn, a spokesman for Up and Out of Poverty, an advocacy group for the homeless.
  7. The news conference was organized by Citizen Soldier, a New York-based advocacy organization for soldiers and veterans.
  8. They were especially angered by the AIDS report and Koop's advocacy of condoms and sex education, saying the result was to encourage promiscuity among young people.
  9. Both reports from the inspector general's office of the Department of Health and Human Services were based on a survey of 228 people in 35 states who work in state and federal government, nursing homes and advocacy groups.
  10. Following the article, the International Airline Passengers Association, a travelers' advocacy group, called for the grounding of the DC-10 fleet.
  11. Action for Children's Television, a Cambridge, Mass., advocacy group, praised the FTC action.
  12. Since nothing is happening at the moment, silence seems the best policy given the politics of homeless issues." In a letter to Bush administration HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan, the advocacy group said the program still has not been funded.
  13. An advocacy group is suing the maker of an allegedly defective heart valve that has been implanted in the chests of more than 80,000 people.
  14. Fang and Li well known for their advocacy of democracy and human rights in China well before last year's crackdown.
  15. The difference is that the advocacy group includes all accidents involving a train carrying toxic materials and the FRA and AAR point only to accidents where hazardous materials were released.
  16. "We favor advertising on television because it has been shown to lower prices by increasing competition," says Deborah Chalfie, a spokeswoman for Halt, a legal consumer advocacy group.
  17. Frank S. Swain, the Small Business Administration's chief counsel for advocacy, urged American companies to set up a subsidiary in one of the 12 countries.
  18. "Minnesota is looked at as a leader in health advocacy," she said.
  19. Carol Croce, executive director of the Wisconsin Nutrition Program, a Madison-based advocacy group, said Learnfare unfairly sanctions parents and "doesn't get at why the kid is missing school.
  20. When Leahy asked him whether he planned to end the criticism, Yeutter responded: "Provided that it is responded (to) in kind by folks who place themselves in the category of environmental advocacy.
  21. But after protests and lawsuits by advocacy groups, Congress in 1986 enacted legislation broadening the grounds for admission but giving the OPM director discretion.
  22. The advocacy group Legal Action of Wisconsin had sued on behalf of six families who claimed their AFDC benefits were wrongly cut because of errors in school attendance records.
  23. Some advocacy groups, in turn, are dismayed to find liberal governors opposing liberal legislation like the Medicaid expansion, which would extend health coverage to now-excluded poor pregnant women and children.
  24. Several advocacy groups have denounced new INS policies that require asylum cases, which are mostly from Nicaraguans, to be handled more aggressively.
  25. "This is designed to talk about and promote safer sex by making it more fun and exciting," said Dave Rompa, executive director of the AIDS Support Network in Madison, an advocacy group that helped develop the business.
  26. Claudia Withers, spokeswoman for the Women's Legal Defense Fund, a public policy advocacy group that monitors laws dealing with family and women's issues, praised the bill.
  27. As elsewhere in Eastern Europe, the Communists are under fire from all the others, despite the party's new advocacy of democratic principles.
  28. Reactions from the gay community and patient advocacy groups yesterday offered the first general affirmation of the coordinated FDA-NIH-industry actions in recent days of the epidemic.
  29. The proliferation of consumer advocacy organizations since then is a testament to the health of their movement, says veteran raider Clarence Ditlow.
  30. The Alar controversy began in late February when a private environmental advocacy group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, said apples treated with the chemical substantially increase the risk of cancer in children.
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