Example sentences of "[art] advocates " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure to reverse the spending growth was a disappointing outcome for the advocates of cuts in the many bruising Cabinet battles over public spending between 1979 and 1982 . |
| 2 | The advocates of a more rapid rundown were hampered by the domination of the debate by manpower figures , which led the issue away from the balance of payments . |
| 3 | The advocates of the Government 's ‘ competing currencies ’ approach suggest that many of these gains would occur by merely moving to a ‘ hard ’ EMS in which currencies became progressively more fixed ( 3 ) . |
| 4 | The other is between ‘ authoritarians ’ and ‘ democrats ’ , the classic struggle between the advocates of a strong state and the believers in popular sovereignty . |
| 5 | By the end of the century the advocates of Neo-Malthusianism , as it was called , were aiming to bring child-bearing under control ; life , except in strict Catholic families , was not regarded as the gift of God . |
| 6 | The advocates of massive aid hint at all sorts of threats facing us if we do not hurry to the rescue , but are the dangers from a collapsing state greater than what could be expected from a revitalised Russia ? |
| 7 | In contrast , the advocates of chaos theory ( e.g. Stewart 1989 ) argue that some natural systems are so sensitive to tiny stimuli that even ‘ the faint beat of a butterfly 's wing could be the ultimate trigger for a hurricane ’ . |
| 8 | Legal procedures were the preserve of the Instruction Book and of the advocates in court . |
| 9 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 10 | Although advocates of the main parties are allowed to cross-examine other parties ' witnesses and the advocates are frequently barristers or solicitors , hearings are not as formal as a court of law and great effort is generally made to bring out the real substance of the layman 's arguments . |
| 11 | On the other hand the advocates of the ‘ safety valve ’ view ( Lord Scarman , and others ) believed that |
| 12 | Debate is now starting to take place in both the lesbian and gay and the straight press ; the advocates of censorship are not going unchallenged . |
| 13 | But Cook has disappointed many on the left by siding so rapidly with the advocates of a quick contest . |
| 14 | To the advocates of reductionism and materialism , or the sceptical at heart , the Hindus have a clearly defined answer for that condition : |
| 15 | Any such claim would therefore have to be framed in terms of the interest theory ; yet , as even the advocates of such an approach admit ( Campbell , 1985 , p. 20 ) this involves open-ended and controversial issues as to which interests deserve protection , and some have argued that it leads to a disintegration of any distinctive or effective notion of a right ( Simmonds , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Whatever the advocates of student power do want — and it is not always clear — one thing they plainly do not want is access to their professors ' wives ( 1971 : 111 ) . |
| 17 | This difference remains however constantly or quickly a judgement ensues on what the advocates of the theory call a ‘ sensation ’ or ‘ impression , . |
| 18 | If , as the advocates of the theory hold , ideas and thoughts are ‘ inner ’ and ‘ private ’ , then how can a speaker and a hearer , a writer and a reader , ever know that the ideas and thoughts that are evoked by an utterance are the same as the ideas and thoughts expressed by it ? |
| 19 | The 1925 Widows ' , Orphans ' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act was thus the product of several impulses — desire by the advocates of 1924 ‘ new Conservatism ’ ( especially Neville Chamberlain ) to forge a specifically Conservative brand of social reform in the new post-1918 conditions of virtual mass democracy , the mothers ' pensions challenge by Labour , the ‘ all-in insurance ’ activity within Whitehall in 1923–4 ( represented by the Anderson and Watson Committees ) , and the first glimmerings of realization that better pensions might encourage retirement and reduce the unemployment statistics . |
| 20 | The results give some support to the advocates of comprehensive secondary schooling that the system will reduce class inequalities and lead to an improvement in overall educational achievement . |
| 21 | The advocates of education for special needs were not reassured by the terms of reference of the task group established by the Secretary of State . |
| 22 | Governors who are committed to the cause of special education will have to bid for a share of resources in competition with the advocates of other areas of the curriculum who will be pressing their case with equal vigour . |
| 23 | The advocates of equality , as well as those more concerned with other goals , are given a cue for reflection on the inequalities of equalization . |
| 24 | Not surprisingly the advocates of a second network are said to prefer that the regional companies be given autonomy to decide which network to connect to . |
| 25 | Joseph says the advocates can help explain cultural practices and identify a mother 's strengths . |
| 26 | When the advocates of a pro-Israeli policy happened to be Jewish , says the Jewish Mr Teicher , the Arabists did not hesitate to whisper ‘ dual loyalty ’ . |
| 27 | Indeed the major criticism is properly addressed to the advocates of nationalisation , who had given far too little attention to the general question of pricing and investment rules by which the public sector should operate . |
| 28 | The advocates of reorganisation and nationalisation in the 1930s and 1940s had claimed there were potentially large gains in efficiency in distribution , and , while their forecasts were probably exaggerated , the new Area Boards were able to reap some of these advantages of larger-scale distribution and more centralised management . |
| 29 | He claims that by the latter half of the eighteenth century the fading ‘ monarchical law ’ of the ancien régime was being confronted by two different alternatives : the programme of the ‘ reforming jurists ’ ( classical criminology ) and that of the advocates of the prison : |
| 30 | Anyway , whatever the ideas that inspired the advocates of the prison , it would obviously be very dangerous to assume that their ideas were automatically embodied in the actual operation of the prison system when it came into being . |