Sentence examples for instead of advocating from inspiring English sources

The defense lawyer tends to be a supplicant, pleading for a shorter sentence instead of advocating a client's innocence.

Instead of advocating a police state, he was implying that the Chinese people need to be told what to do because they don't know what's best for them.

"Instead of advocating for U.S. foreign policy, I'm advocating for people who need help finding a way through the system," she said.

"Instead of advocating seasoned prosecutors who are up to this enormous responsibility, the governor wants to install two of his friends and associates with close political connections".

It argues that monotheism has harbored both possibilities, and, instead of advocating rewriting the Bible naïvely, it recommends, and engages in, reinterpreting it.

Meanwhile, helping to prolong the Democratic battle over delegates — instead of advocating that they simply not be counted, as the current rules require — could be the governor's way of making trouble for the Democrats on behalf of Mr. McCain.

I think, instead of advocates arguing this point back and forth between ourselves, we should all agree that each dog is unique, regardless of breed.

But instead of constructively advocating a pro-growth program of low taxes, sound money and deregulation, the IMF is fanning the flames of an economic crisis by urging South Africa to continue floating its currency, the rand, instead of stabilizing it.

Collectivist anarchists oppose all private ownership of the means of production, instead advocating that ownership be collectivised.

He also rejected the civil rights movement's strategy of nonviolence, instead advocating that black people should defend themselves.

With polls showing voters deeply concerned about public education and both presidential candidates scrambling to champion education reform, the American Federation of Teachers is rushing to cast itself as an agent of change instead of an advocate of the status quo.