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Discover LudwigThe phrase "advocated over" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly when trying to express support or preference for one thing over another.
Example: "She advocated over the need for better environmental policies."
Alternatives: "advocated for" or "supported in preference to".
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Other methods for helping the deaf communicate have also been advocated over the years.
From these humble beginnings, Cohen steadily advocated over the years for dance to take its place beside the other creative arts as a legitimate area of study, and she intelligently and scrappily built a program grounded in contemporary dance.
Mark Morrin, the principal author of the report, said: "What we've identified in Knowsley is that the series of reforms that governments have advocated over the years haven't worked for white, working-class children.
Mr. Reid has received support from the nation's largest unions as well as Nevada-based industries whose interests he has fiercely — and sometimes to criticism — advocated over the years: particularly mining and gambling.
Mr. Bush delivered a wish list, covering in broad strokes virtually everything he had advocated over the previous 38 days of his presidency or during his campaign: raises for military men and women; a modernization of the military; accountability for schools that receive federal money.
The need for graduates who are immediately prepared for employment has been widely advocated over the last decade to narrow the notorious gap between industry and higher education.
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For the moment, the GOP candidates' newly espoused views on contraceptives make them strange bedfellows with women's groups that have in the past advocated over-the-counter release of birth control measures and have fought -- against Republicans -- for the freer release of emergency contraceptives.
He's also advocated for over-the-counter birth control which was previously anathema for Republican values voters.
The opportunity could have been taken to debate the substance of the Shami Chakrabarti report, but instead there was cheap innuendo about the integrity of a woman who has been Britain's leading civil liberties advocate over the past 13 years.
"Unless there is some sort of ratio idea that Uefa president Michel Platini has been advocating over the years, I expect that we are not going to resolve that problem," he added.
Though there have been many Christian reparations advocates over the years, there has been no significant Christian movement for reparations in the US.
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