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.

Alterations during this period included minor changes, such as extending the legal deposit system to cover Sion College and the Faculty of Advocates, but also major ones, including the introduction of a limit on the length of time for which copyright would be granted.

Advocates of the customary system saw the French Revolutionary, or metric, system as atheistic.

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.

Leave to appeal is not a feature of the Scottish legal system and appeals proceeded when two Advocates certified the appeal as suitable.

Advocates of the imperial system also drew upon a tradition of westward expansion over the course of the previous century.

Advocates of the former, the Normative Principle, argue that attributions of intentional idioms to physical systems should be the propositional attitudes that the physical system ought to have in those circumstances ( Dennett 1987, 342 ).

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 this system see this as one of its advantages.

Advocates blame the influence of feminism on education for discrimination against and systematic oppression of boys in the education system.

* Republicans – Advocates of a system without a monarch.

Advocates of this centralized system of managing the economy contend that it has a number of advantages.

Advocates of trade justice argue that growing inequity and serious gaps in social justice, and the global export of terrorism, are symptoms of an economic system that permits harms to be exported to other countries, while importing their goods.

Advocates of this system of property recording argue that a property system which is inherently contingent provides a stronger guarantee of private property rights over the long run than a registration system which provides assurance of one's rights to private property.

Advocates sometimes focus on other supposed health benefits of the algae, such as claims of weight control, cancer prevention, and immune system support.

Advocates of the system recognize that Soar is still missing some important aspects of intelligence.

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.

Advocates, especially in the anti-globalization movement, argue that the mating-like processes of standardization, financing and marketing, are already examples of runaway evolution – rendering a system that appeals to the consumer but which is inefficient at use of energy and raw materials.

Advocates of Basel II believed that such an international standard could help protect the international financial system from the types of problems that might arise should a major bank or a series of banks collapse.

Advocates would argue that, even if this cannot be resolved, the resulting confusion would be less than what we suffer under today's spelling system, and furthermore, would be only temporary.

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

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

Advocates of this approach also claim the term " responsible disclosure ".

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 for gun rights often claim that past totalitarian regimes passed gun control legislation, which was later followed by confiscation, with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as some communist states being cited as examples.

Advocates of counterfactual history often respond that all statements about causality in history contain implicit counterfactual claims — for example, the claim that a certain military decision helped a country win a war presumes that if that decision had not been made, the war would have been less likely to be won, or would have been longer.

Advocates of social learning claim that one of the best ways to learn something is to teach it to others.

Advocates of ramp meters claim that they break up platoons of vehicles entering freeways, ensuring that traffic can merge more easily.

* Advocates of philosophical skepticism claim that man cannot know anything with certainty, much less be infallible.

* Advocates of subjectivism claim that there is no objective reality or truth, and therefore anyone can be considered infallible, since whatever is within a person's consciousness is considered the real and the true.

* Advocates of reason and rationality claim that man can gain certainty of knowledge, but that no man can arrive at certainty by substituting the percepts of reality for the arbitrary say-so of another man.

Advocates of this design approach claim that ordinary people of ordinary intelligence can use it to successfully solve very large, complex design problems.

Advocates of such labelling claim that the consumer should make the choice whether to expose themselves to any possible health risk from consuming such foods.

Advocates of Watson claim that Apple copied the features of Watson without permission, compensation, or attribution.

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.

Advocates claim that it is opposed to closed society.

Advocates of PBL claim it can be used to enhance content knowledge while simultaneously fostering the development of communication, problem-solving, critical thinking, collaboration, and self-directed learning skills.

Advocates of the Shroud's authenticity claim that recent research demonstrates that the face of the Manoppello Image corresponds exactly with the face presented on the Shroud of Turin and the blood stains on the Sudarium of Oviedo, although skeptics dispute this.

Advocates of both sides of the debate in the United States sometimes claim that gasoline manufacturers have been forced to add MTBE to gasoline by law.

Advocates claim that over 100 million people in 1, 500 cities celebrate International Car-Free Day, though on days and in ways of their choice.

Advocates claim that licensure protects the consumer through the application of professional, educational and / or ethical standards of practice.

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 argue that homosexuality is not a " choice " but a personal identity, a claim supported by the American Psychology Association ( APA ), and that all working people have a right to be judged by the quality of their work performance and not by completely unrelated factors.

Advocates claim that learning is enhanced through direct application in appropriate social contexts of principles and practices taught through formal instruction concurrent with guided reflection of the student's experiences.

Advocates of substantive due process acknowledge that the doctrine was employed in Dred Scott, but claim that it was employed incorrectly.