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advocate
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advocate: see attorney attorney, agent put in place of another to manage particular affairs of the principal. An attorney in fact is an agent who conducts business under authority that is controlled and limited by a written document called a letter, or power, of attorney granted by the
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advocate
1. a person who pleads his client's cause in a court of law
2. Scots Law the usual word for barrister


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Among conservatives, there is substantial dissatisfaction with public schools and advocation of voucher plans--even on the part of many poor urban and rural families.
Bembo's advocation of an Italian literary language based on Petrarch's poetry and Boccaccio's prose, a language perceived as untouched by history and regional rivalry, was keenly attuned to the ambitions of the Medici, and Labe's reorientation of Petarch's treatment of amatory relationships was intended to make available to a middle-class audience forms of verse excluded from the educated male community schooled in the humanist tradition.
In either case this advocation of individual well-being must be either exposed or transformed into a less self-serving ideology.
 
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