The phrase "advocated instead of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing preferences or recommendations, indicating that one option is preferred over another.
Example: "The committee advocated instead of the traditional methods, opting for a more innovative approach."
Alternatives: "recommended in place of" or "supported over".
But UN Women — a body dedicated to issues concerning women since 2010 — has advocated instead for the de-criminalization of the sex industry, a move intended to increase rights and services for sex workers.
Postmodernism, according to Ms. Pavitt, includes "a set of incendiary tactics which overturned the principles and dogmas of the modern movement, and advocated instead a politics of and about style itself, ransacking the dressing up box of stylistic idioms to produce an eclectic, exuberant and often confrontational practice".
The Dalai Lama, who fled into exile in India in 1959, has denied claims that he is seeking independence for Tibet, advocating instead for greater autonomy of the region through dialogue with Beijing.
But state Attorney General Almond argued the bill left the state legally exposed, and advocated instead a special session of the legislature in the summer in order to meet the "good faith" requirement of the Brown II decision.
He advocated instead a more moderate realism of universalia in rebus ("universals in things"): While there are universals, they can have no freestanding, independent existence.
It advocated instead Sokô's own understanding of the Analects.
In the late 1950s Kennan revised his containment views, advocating instead a program of U.S. "disengagement" from areas of conflict with the Soviet Union.
But Stumpf is not a phenomenalist as he advocates instead a form of critical realism that he conceives as the antithesis of phenomenalism such as that which he attributes to classical empiricism and to E. Mach.
It advocates instead a prospective idea of responsibility focused on its exercise, by way of steering innovation processes according to societal values and needs.
Hefce, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, this month published a report confirming that metrics should not replace the next REF, advocating instead a "'variable geometry' of expert judgment, quantitative indicators and qualitative measures that respect research diversity".
