Instead, it advocated a broad but distinctive set of principles.
On matters involving the First Amendment, Scalia advocated a broad scope for freedom of speech.
All the women also advocated a broad debate involving politicians, the media, schools and religious institutions.
The Republican-led State Senate had advocated a broad "conscience clause" allowing religious employers to opt out of covering contraceptives.
All along, however, some economists who are concerned about global warming have advocated a broad carbon tax as an alternative to cap-and-trade.
He was staff director of New York's Temporary State Commission on the Revision and Simplification of the Constitution in 1959, when it advocated a broad expansion of local home-rule powers in the state.
None of these are "neutral" issues for the Catholic Church, which long advocated a broad new health care law that it then had to oppose when the H.H.S. mandate was included, forcing it to violate its moral principles.
Democrats noted that they had advocated a broad antiterrorism department long before the idea was endorsed in June by President Bush and said that what was holding up the bill's passage was the Republican insistence on undermining job security for department workers.
Mr. Ryan, whose speakership was diminished by an inability to maneuver around the Freedom Caucus at critical moments, had long advocated a broad immigration compromise, but he spent his final hours in the post waging a futile and divisive fight to erect a border wall.
Wiesenthal advocated a broad humanistic approach to the Holocaust, describing the extermination of the Jews as a crime against humanity and Holocaust memory not merely as a moral obligation to the dead but primarily as a tool in the struggle against further war crimes and racism.
Justice Harlan advocated a broad interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause.
