The phrase "advocated by four" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to refer to something that has been supported or promoted by four individuals or entities, but it needs additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The policy changes were advocated by four leading experts in the field."
Alternatives: "supported by four" or "promoted by four".
Perhaps the most decisive advantage occurred through a change advocated by one of Boeing's biggest supporters, Representative Norm Dicks, Democrat of Washington.
The renewal of Thomistic thought was advocated by three influential Jesuit writers in Italy and Germany: Luigi Taparelli d'Azeglio, Matteo Liberatore, and Joseph Kleutgen.
Editors' Note: February 19 , 2001 Monday An Op-Ed article by former President Bill Clinton yesterday about the pardons of Marc Rich and Pincus Green stated erroneously in some editions that "the applications were reviewed and advocated" by three prominent lawyers, Leonard Garment, William Bradford Reynolds and Lewis Libby.
But Mr. Parrott accused the mayor of not looking hard enough at increasing revenue from the city's highest earners — a step advocated by one possible mayoral candidate, John C. Liu, the city comptroller.
While Mr. Rajoy has been criticized for his dilatory ways, experts in Spain point out that the go-slow approach actually represents more of a calculated strategy advocated by one of Mr. Rajoy's top economic advisers, Álvaro Nadal, who is a member of Mr. Rajoy's center right Popular Party.
At the White House meeting, President Reagan said he opposed an amendment advocated by three Republican senators - Gordon J. Humphrey of New Hampshire, William L. Armstrong of Colorado and Jesse Helms of North Carolina - that would deny tax-exempt status for hospitals where abortions are performed and charities that finance abortions.
It also describes a strategy, advocated by one personal finance professor, that offers the tantalizing prospect of beating the market with a mix of market-tracking index funds.
There is even less in the way of foreplay now, and the safe sex advocated by the two rather edgy Timothy Dalton films appears to have been abandoned.
This week's poem, "Lines Written in Early Spring", has all the simplicity of diction advocated by the two radical young poets, Wordsworth and Coleridge, when they collaborated on Lyrical Ballads.
At the last election, Mr Carney probably thought that some of the economic policies advocated by the two main parties were crackers; but he knew perfectly well that to say so would lose the respect of the voters.
