As a technical term, advocate is used mainly in those legal systems that derived from the Roman law.
In the United States the term advocate has no special significance, being used interchangeably with such terms as attorney, counsel, or lawyer.
The Greens, also beneficiaries of trade union support, are long-term advocates for a ban on overseas donations and donations from for-profit corporations, and strict caps on donations from individuals and from not-for-profit organisations.
As Wong et al. recently put it, 'GPs have advantages in providing HIV services because of their position as trusted, community-based, long-term advocates for their patients' [ 52].
Hoosan is a long-term advocate for Mount Nancy and the other camps.
A long-term advocate for the development of health policies, Dr. Rosenberg served on the board of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for 38 years.
In order to avoid declaring the provision unconstitutional, the court held that it "must be construed to apply only to expenditures for communications that, in express terms advocate the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate for federal office".
A long-term advocate of integration with the EU, he sensibly vows also to mend relations with Russia, despite Vladimir Putin's banditry in Crimea though an influx of Chechen fighters into eastern Ukraine will complicate that process, too.
It's a looming catastrophe that I think can be avoided," said Sir David, one of the architects of the programme who has been a long-term advocate of moving away from fossil fuels towards a "decarbonised" economy.
The Labour MP John Woodcock, a long-term advocate of intervention, said: "We've said 'Never again' so many times, and we mean it when we say it, but then, a few months, a few years later, it comes to nothing".
