Sentence examples for advocated a position from inspiring English sources

Van Fraassen advocated a position that he called "constructive empiricism," a view intended to capture the insights of logical empiricism while avoiding its defects.

When he advocated a position, other officials understood that he was almost certainly channeling Mr. Obama, and no one is a fiercer defender of the president.

Be it on gun control, immigration, same-sex marriage or high-end taxes, the party has advocated a position at odds with the beliefs of most Americans, polls show.

Re "A Case the Scouts Had to Win," by Steffen N. Johnson (Op-Ed, June 30), about the Supreme Court's ruling that the Boy Scouts have a constitutional right to exclude gay members: Mr. Johnson writes, "If the Boy Scouts were required to admit leaders who advocated a position contrary to its own, then men could assert the right to lead the Girl Scouts".

If the Boy Scouts were required to admit leaders who advocated a position contrary to its own, then men could assert the right to lead the Girl Scouts, gentiles could assert the right to head Jewish groups and heterosexuals could assert the right to lead gay groups.

The BIS is now advocating a position indistinguishable from that of Schumpeter in the 1930s, opposing any monetary expansion because that would leave "the work of depressions undone".

To that end, Callaway has submitted a straightforward script to the PGA Tour that sells the ERC II, but does not advocate a position.

"There have definitely been moments when far more important people than me were advocating a position that I was not," she said.

He now advocates a position once unthinkable among R.C.A. rabbis: Israel would be better off if it instituted civil marriage and cut the state's ties with the rabbinate.

But it was nothing to do with advocating a "position".

In this respect, Zen philosophically advocates a position of "not one".