Well before the blackout last August, our industry had been strenuously advocating a number of policy initiatives that we believe will strengthen the reliability of the electricity system.
"Everyone should be strenuously advocating for changes that will improve the quality of teaching and instruction, but we should also recognize that those changes cost money," said Jonah Edelman, chief executive of Stand for Children, a nonprofit advocacy group.
Cardinal O'Connor, who is frequently described as the Vatican's spokesman to the United States, has strenuously advocated church teachings in an era when most American Catholics do not agree with the church's positions on abortion, divorce or women in the clergy.
As feminist scholar Mitzi Myers has observed, Wollstonecraft is usually described as an "enlightened philosopher strenuously advocating the cultivation of reason as the guide to both self-realization and social progress", but her works do not unambiguously support such a model of selfhood.
The foster-care agency was advocating strenuously for adoption.
Refugee advocates strenuously denied claims first aired by Dutton on Friday that outsiders were encouraging such protests.
Bariatric surgery is effective treatment for severe obesity, and I have long advocated strenuously that it should be available, and reimbursable, for all who truly need it.
Bill Dobbs, a lawyer and gay-rights advocate who strenuously opposes the Washington march, supports them fully.
The John Jay researchers take pains to credit the hierarchy for making important strides in combating child abuse -- an assertion victim advocates will strenuously dispute -- and they point out that society as a whole was only slowly coming to understand the nature of child abuse as U.S. dioceses were swamped with cases.
Federal officials said it would provide greater uniformity; advocates for the disabled strenuously oppose the idea.
The site may indeed have been as bad as the village's mayor, Philip Trifiletti, said it was, although advocates for the workers strenuously disagreed.
