The phrase "I cannot advocate" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you wish to express your opinion that you cannot publicly support a certain action or belief. For example: "I understand why some people are for the proposal, but I cannot advocate for it myself."
As a school counselor, I know that I cannot just advocate for the needy, lead the strong, change the willing, or collaborate when it is convenient.
Even if you agree with me that, despite its problems, the U.S. is the greatest country in the history of the world, I still cannot advocate strongly enough the need for you to have a global perspective in building your portfolios.
That ambitious label may well be true; certainly I cannot think of any advocate, in any country, who is more deserving.
"As a pet photographer and huge rescue advocate I cannot justify my business being hosted by a company that would conceive of this type of marketing.
"As a rape survivor and as an advocate, I cannot shy away from this responsibility because the conversation got difficult," the actress, who was raped at gunpoint at age 19, says in the new issue of Essence.
As a Hindu American advocate, I cannot deny the comfort I take in knowing that now on Capitol Hill there is at least one office that will hit the ground running in terms of its understanding of Hinduism and Hindu issues.
I cannot understand why anyone would advocate our current system, which allows people with a history of violent crime or mental illness to buy guns as easily as anyone else.
I cannot contemplate how the special advocate could possibly challenge effectively the case for the Home Office, based on hearsay and unattributable assertion, without any instructions from the appellant himself.
"I cannot get an answer," he e-mailed The Advocate of Baton Rouge.
