Advocates of union with Canada denounced the Economic Union Party as republican, disloyal and anti-British ; Britain refused to allow the voting populace the option to choose union with the U. S., and the U. S. State Department, needing British and Canadian cooperation during the Second World War, decided not to interfere.

Advocates of the German bow claim that it allows the player to apply more arm weight on the strings.

Advocates of the promotion of Low German have expressed considerable hope that this political development will at once lend legitimacy to their claim that Low German is a separate language and help mitigate the functional limits of the language that may still be cited as objective criteria for a mere dialect ( such as the virtually complete absence from legal and administrative contexts, schools, the media, etc.

After a short residence at Heidelberg ( 1871 ), where he began his study of German philosophy, he returned to Edinburgh as assistant first to Henry Calderwood and later to A. Campbell Fraser ; he joined the staff of the Encyclopædia Britannica ( 9th edition ) ( 1874 ) and studied widely in the Advocates ' Library.

Advocates of proportional representation suggest that a coalition government leads to more consensus-based politics, in that a government comprising differing parties ( often based on different ideologies ) would need to concur in regard to governmental policy.

Advocates of free-market socialism, such as Jaroslav Vanek, argue that genuine free markets are not possible under conditions of private ownership over productive property because the class differences and inequalities in income and power that ensue from this arrangement enable interests of the dominant class to skew the market to their favor, either in the form of monopoly and market power, or by utilizing their wealth and resources to pass government regulations and policies that benefit their specific business interests.

Advocates of Keynesian economics argue that private sector decisions sometimes lead to inefficient macroeconomic outcomes which require active policy responses by the public sector, particularly monetary policy actions by the central bank and fiscal policy actions by the government to stabilize output over the business cycle.

In December 2009, a 96-page report titled Human Rights in Ethiopia: Through the Eyes of the Oromo Diaspora, compiled by the Advocates for Human Rights, documented human rights violations against the Oromo in Ethiopia under three successive regimes: the Abyssinian Empire under Haile Selassie, the Marxist Derg and the current Ethiopian government of the Ethiopian People ’ s Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ), dominated by members of the Tigray People ’ s Liberation Front ( TPLF ) and which was accused to have arrested approximately 20, 000 suspected OLF members, to have driven most OLF leadership into exile, and to have effectively neutralized the OLF as a political force in Ethiopia.

Advocates of highway development and suburban participation in urban government theorize that cities which protect themselves from the suburbs, forcing them to become self-sufficient small towns, cutting off the freeways, forcing commuters into subways, etc., are committing suicide by forcing business out into the suburbs.

Advocates of limited government, in the form laissez faire ( little or no government role in the economy ) follow from the 19th century philosophical tradition classical liberalism, and are particularly associated with the mainstream economic schools of classical economics ( through the 1870s ) and neoclassical economics ( from the 1870s onwards ), and with the heterodox Austrian school.

Advocates of an expanded government role follow instead in alternative streams of progressivism ; in the Anglosphere ( English-speaking countries, notably the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand ) this is associated with institutional economics and, at the macroeconomic level, with Keynesian economics.

In most years, only a few students withdraw in the face of an honor charge or after investigations and closed hearings conducted by the Executive Committee of the Student Body, the University's elected student government ( with the accused counseled by Honor Advocates, often law students ).

Advocates of sound finance ( in the US known as fiscal conservatism ) reject Keynesianism and, in the strongest form, argue that government should always run a balanced budget ( and a surplus to pay down any outstanding debt ), and that deficit spending is always bad policy.

Advocates of offshore banking often characterise government regulation as a form of tax on domestic banks, reducing interest rates on deposits.

Advocates of free markets say that the only feasible way that a business could close entry to a field and therefore be able to raise prices free of competitive forces, i. e. be a coercive monopoly, is with the aid of government in restricting competition.

Advocates of a laissez-faire economic policy are quick to assert ( barring private criminal conduct ) that a coercive monopoly can only come about through government intervention, and defend these situations as non-coercive monopolies in which government should not intervene.

Until devolution in 1999, all Lord Advocates were, by convention, members of the United Kingdom government, although the post was not normally in the Cabinet.

Advocates of New Buddhism, like Suzuki's teachers Kosen and his successor Shaku Soen, saw this movement as a defense of Buddhism against government persecution, and also saw it as a way to bring their nation into the modern world as a competitive cultural force.

The World Congress of Advocates of Peace in Paris ( 20 April 1949 ) repeated the Cominform line that the world was divided between " a non-aggressive Soviet group and a war-minded imperialistic group, headed by the United States government ".

Advocates in the Labour government have included Alan Milburn, the former health secretary, and Hazel Blears.

Advocates of marijuana legalization argue that the budgetary impact of removing cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act and legalizing its use in the United States could save billions by reducing government spending for prohibition enforcement in the criminal justice system.

* Advocates for low-income New Yorkers at all levels of government.

Advocates included musicians, record labels, government officials, and the Seattle-based Pacific Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Advocates, survivors and victims ' relatives filed a suit in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights against the Peruvian government for violation of human rights.

Advocates of ECAs have assertions of their own, such as the following: export credits allow impoverished importers to purchase needed goods that would otherwise be unaffordable ; export credits are components of a broader strategy of trade policies ; and government involvement can achieve results that the private sector cannot, such as applying greater pressure on a recalcitrant borrower.

Meanwhile, two members of Telangana Advocates JAC filed criminal case against Chiranjeevi and 12 other leaders of his party for opposing separation of Telengana.

Her parents, Larry Sarner and Linda Rosa, are leaders of the advocacy group Advocates for Children in Therapy.

Advocates are often normal users who devote their spare time to advocacy of their operating system of choice ; many have a deep and abiding interest in the use, design and construction of operating systems and an emotional investment in their favourite operating system.

Advocates of Condorcet methods argue that a candidate can claim to have majority support only if they are the " Condorcet winner " – that is, the candidate who would beat every other candidate in a series of one-on-one elections.

Advocates of this philosophy point to the many well-known artists and intellectuals who have used drugs, experimentally or otherwise, with few detrimental effects on their lives.

Advocates see turning over economic institutions to those who run them as counteracting the negative effects of both state and private ( particularly corporate ) monopolies such as concentration of power and decision-making ability and negative externalities.

Advocates of the current system argue that these electors could then choose a suitable replacement ( who would most likely come from the same party of the candidate who won the election ) more competently than could the general voting public.

Advocates of same-sex marriage cite a range of benefits that are denied to people who cannot marry, including immigration, health care, inheritance and property rights, and other family obligations and protections, as reasons why marriage should be extended to same-sex couples.

Cockburn entered the Faculty of Advocates in 1800, and attached himself, not to the party of his relatives, who could have afforded him most valuable patronage, but to the Whig party, and that at a time when it held out few inducements to men ambitious of success in life.

Becoming a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1763, he soon acquired a leading position in the Scottish legal system ; and he had the advantage of the success of his half-brother Robert ( 1713 – 1787 ), who had become Lord President of the Court of Session in 1760.

Advocates of social promotion argue that promotion is done in order to not harm the students ' or their classmates ' self-esteem, to encourage socialization by age ( together with their age cohort ), to facilitate student involvement in sports teams, or to promote a student who is weak in one subject on the basis of strength in the other areas.

Advocates of the designated hitter point to the fact that it has extended many careers, and, in a few cases, created long, productive careers for players who are weak fielders or have a history of injuries, such as Edgar Martínez.

On April 11, 2001, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders ( GLAD ) sued the Massachusetts Department of Health in Superior Court on behalf of seven same-sex couples, all residents of Massachusetts, who had been denied marriage licenses in March and April 2001.

Court Appointed Special Advocates ( CASA ), adopted as the international philanthropy in 1989, are community volunteers who serve as the voice for abused and neglected children in court, their purpose is to ensure all legal actions made are in the child's best interest.

Advocates of preventive war have ranged from Posadist Communists, who argued for war to destroy capitalism, to western neo-conservatives such as George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, who argued that preventive war is necessary in today's post September 11th world.

Advocates of substantive due process who assert that the doctrine was employed in Dred Scott claim that it was employed incorrectly.

Advocates of a Delaware-New Jersey crossing faced strong opposition from Philadelphia port authorities, who claimed the bridge would be a menace to navigation.

Terry Collingsworth, a lawyer with International Rights Advocates who is involved with the multi-million dollar litigation, said: " This is a landmark case, maybe the biggest terrorism case in history.

Advocates who are against using the pitch count as a metric to measure pitcher performance include Minnesota Twins broadcaster / Hall of Famer Bert Blyleven, Texas Rangers President / Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, and former Florida Marlins manager Jack McKeon.

That led Thatcher to offer Fairbairn the secondary post of Solicitor-General for Scotland, and to invite the then Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, J P H Mackay QC, who was not even then a member of the Conservative Party, to become Lord Advocate, which post he accepted.

Advocates of this system believe that it would be unfair — or a poor business strategy — to raise interest rates globally to accommodate risky borrowers, thus penalizing low-risk borrowers who are unlikely to default.

Consumers looking for local representation should contact the National Association of Consumer Advocates as they have a database of lawyers across the US who specialize in consumer and low income issues.

* Advocacy: Advocates generally speak for others who are unable to represent their own interest due to disability, inherent complexity of the venue such as courts and hospitals, or other factors.

Advocates of technological progress however argue that even if admittedly " progress may have its price ", without technical innovation there would be no progress at all ; the same people who criticize technology also depend on it for their everyday existence.