effective advocate

collocation in English

meaningsofeffectiveandadvocate

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effective
adjective
uk
/ɪˈfek.tɪv/us
/əˈfek.tɪv/
successful or achieving the results that ...
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advocate
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæd.və.kət/us
/ˈæd.və.kət/
a lawyer who defends someone in a ...
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(Definition ofeffectiveandadvocatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Sims has served as aneffectiveadvocateand critic of the extensively used vector autoregressive statistical methods.
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He will clearly be aneffectiveadvocatefor his constituency.
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I know that he has long been a mosteffectiveadvocate, here and elsewhere, on matters pertaining to the animal kingdom.
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He is aneffectiveadvocatefor the men he represents.
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He has already become aneffectiveadvocateof horse racing and its associated industries.
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I am sure that he will be an able andeffectiveadvocatefor his constituents.
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It could be aneffectiveadvocatefor the consumer.
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Above all, it was necessary to find someone who would be aneffectiveadvocate.
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He was aneffectiveadvocateof civil service reform and introduced a merit system for appointees.
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He became a mosteffectiveadvocate, especially in criminal cases; he declined to defend prisoners unless he believed in their innocence.
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A wig-like crown presents a king as aneffectiveadvocatefor his subjects.
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Effective advocates must transform their own personal feelings of outrage into altruism toward nursing-home residents more broadly defined.
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Climenhaga had been aneffectiveadvocateof the college's transition to a university in the years leading up to 1963.
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Palley proved aneffectiveadvocateand a good legal brain.
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Leland was aneffectiveadvocateon hunger and public health issues.
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As usual, they were effective advocates for their communities.
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The most effective advocates of what the military are about and the missions in which they are involved are sometimes junior non-commissioned officers.
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I think he is one of the most effective advocates of any case that one could wish to meet.
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There are many effective advocates of consumer choice, and we acknowledge that many people have strong feelings on the issue.
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Those soldiers made very effective advocates of what the military were about.
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