Advocates have defined astrology as a symbolic language, an art form, a science, and a method of divination.

Advocates of inclusive language defend it as inoffensive-language usage whose goal is multi-fold:

Advocates of linguistic polygenesis do not accept the notion of a fully developed Proto-Human language and consider the world's language families independent developments of a proto-linguistic form of communication used by archaic Homo sapiens.

Advocates of gender-neutral language argue that language is rich in alternatives that speakers and writers, sensitive to attitudes and beliefs of audiences, can use without impinging on the effectiveness of their communication.

Advocates have been calling for Chinese language services to be available in the community centers to accommodate the growing number of Chinese residents in the area.

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.

* Advocates of non-sexist language including some feminists say that the English language perpetuates biases against women, such as using male-gendered terms such as " he " and " man " as generic.

Advocates of an Aramaic original also refer to the patristic writings ( Papias, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Eusebius, Jerome ) that indicate Aramaic was the original written language of parts of the New Testament.

Advocates argue that excessive foul language is the proof of a deliberate montage of the recordings using extrinsic audio samples.

Advocates of the hunting hypothesis tend to believe that tool use and toolmaking essential to effective hunting were an extremely important part of human evolution, and trace the origin of language and religion to a hunting context.

Advocates use these meetings to educate legislators about T1D and emphasize the need for federal research funding.

In Scotland, where the independent Bar is organised as the Faculty of Advocates and its members known not as barristers but as advocates, the position of Queen's Counsel was not recognised before 1868.

Advocates of industrial unionism value its contributions to building unity and solidarity, suggesting the slogans, " an injury to one is an injury to all " and " the longer the picket line, the shorter the strike.

Advocates of this system see this as one of its advantages.

Advocates for the Virginia Pep Band, including some in the Cavalier Daily editorial section, claim that there is strong student support for the organization and that the administration of the University of Virginia and its Athletics Department are exerting more control over something that was historically student-run.

It maintained its party organisation but established a propaganda group, the British Advocates of Industrial Unionism.

Advocates of retinal scanning have concluded that it is so accurate that its error rate is estimated to be only one in a million.

In his zeal for the historic episcopacy he published An Apology for Apostolic Order and its Advocates in 1807, a series of letters to Rev.

In 1973 he became Vice-Dean of the Faculty on Advocates and from 1976 until 1979 served as its Dean, the leader of the Scots bar.

Advocates of inclusive fitness theory say that an organism can improve its overall genetic success by cooperative social behavior.

Advocates of non-resistance view pacifism as a more liberal theology since it advocates only physical nonviolence and allows its followers to actively oppose an enemy.

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.

Advocates of the show, however, point to its gothic tone, its tempered, surprisingly subtle use of special effects, and the potential of the overall plotline as solid reasons the show should have stayed on the air.

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 of this view, which has become increasingly popular in national circuit high school debate, believe that once the affirmative selects its specific plan so long as it is topical, it abandons any further tie to the resolution and cedes the remaining ground of advocacy to the negative.

Advocates of monocropping tend to claim that in its absence many human populations would be reduced to starvation or to a degraded level of civilization comparable to the Dark Ages.

Advocates of its status as a unique condition cite the pattern and scope of the decay as distinguishing factors.

The Faculty of Advocates was established as the body for practising advocates in 1532, though its origins are thought to date from even earlier.

Advocates claim that the essential quality of the netroots is its flatness and inter-linked web connectiveness — that it constitutes communication points that reach out to influence traditional media, but is not directed outward from any one point.

He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1979, and the same year became Director of Faculty Services Limited, the services branch of the Faculty of Advocates, and was its Chairman from 1983 to 1989.

Advocates of the MCC Coaching manual derided the stance for its " ugliness ", and asserted technical reasons why its exponents were doomed to fail, but Willey persisted with the method and was generally successful.

Advocates of civilian control generally take a Clausewitzian view of war, emphasizing its political character.

Advocates of this view claim that since we live as part of one planet's photosynthesis chain and are trapped within its gravity well, we are effectively components of one large body — that being the global ecology of Earth itself.

Advocates of this theory thought that every single vibration of the vocal folds was due to an impulse from the recurrent laryngeal nerves and that the acoustic center in the brain regulated the speed of vocal fold vibration.

Advocates for rail transport and environmentalists have wanted to build high speed railways, including upgrades to 250 km / h on Sørlandsbanen, Bergensbanen and Dovrebanen while others, including Norsk Bane, have suggested construction of a new line through Haukeli to Stavanger, Haugesund and Bergen.

Advocates of speed reading generally claim that subvocalization places extra burden on the cognitive resources, thus, slowing the reading down.

Though a Segway-focused organization, Disability Rights Advocates for Technology, advocates for Segway PT sidewalk and facility access as an ADA issue, Segways cannot be marketed in the US as medical devices: they have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a medical device and Johnson & Johnson claims exclusive rights to the medical uses of the balancing technology found in the iBOT and Segway.

: The expressive role variants are Promoters ( expressive Operators ), Performers ( expressive Entertainers ), Supervisors ( expressive Administrators ), Providers ( expressive Conservators ), Teachers ( expressive Mentors ), Champions ( expressive Advocates ), Fieldmarshals ( expressive Coordinators ), and Inventors ( expressive Engineers ).

Advocates of both Arminianism and Calvinism find a home in many Protestant denominations, and sometimes both exist within the same denomination as with the Puritans.

Advocates of autonomous building describe advantages that include reduced environmental impacts, increased security, and lower costs of ownership.

Advocates such as Jane Jacobs argue that this enables an economically depressed region to pull itself up, by giving the people living there a medium of exchange that they can use to exchange services and locally produced goods ( In a broader sense, this is the original purpose of all money.

Advocates of central bank independence argue that a central bank which is too susceptible to political direction or pressure may encourage economic cycles (" boom and bust "), as politicians may be tempted to boost economic activity in advance of an election, to the detriment of the long-term health of the economy and the country.

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.

Columbia University campus military groups include the U. S. Military Veterans of Columbia University and Advocates for Columbia ROTC.

Advocates for a northern homeland point to Greek and Roman sources that associate the Cimbri with the peninsula of Jutland, Denmark.

Advocates of economic planning have sometimes been staunch critics of command economies and centralized planning.

* 1825 – Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.

Advocates of increased use of DDT in IRS claim that alternative insecticides are more expensive, more toxic, or not as effective.

Advocates of ending DADT repeatedly publicized discharges of highly trained gay and lesbian personnel, especially those in positions with critical shortages, including fifty-nine Arabic speakers and nine Persian speakers.

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

* " On Thin Ice: How Advocates and Opponents Could Misread the Public's Views on Vouchers and Charter Schools ," Public Agenda, 1999 Public opinion study that concluded most Americans did not understand the voucher concept, even in communities that already had such programs.

Advocates of Pauline authorship also point out that the differences between Colossians and the rest of the New Testament is not as great as it is purported to be.

Advocates of Callet's approach believe that this method was recommended and taught by the great brass instructors of the early 20th Century.

Advocates of the movement seek to highlight the deeply rooted teachings of equality in the Quran and encourage a questioning of the patriarchal interpretation of Islamic teaching through the Quran ( holy book ), hadith ( sayings of Muhammad ) and sharia ( law ) towards the creation of a more equal and just society.

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 this idea suggest that this discourages petty vandalism yet encourages artists to take their time and produce great art, without worry of being caught or arrested for vandalism or trespassing.

Advocates of human therapeutic cloning believe the practice could provide genetically identical cells for regenerative medicine, and tissues and organs for transplantation.

Advocates of legalization make free speech arguments.

This led to the establishment of the Advocates for the Establishment of an International Organization of Unitarians ( AEIOU ), which worked towards creating the council.