How to Use advocacy in a Sentence

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  • This wasn’t the first time Musk has threatened legal action against an advocacy group.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • In a news release Thursday, local advocacy groups applauded the EPA’s stance, and urged the city to submit a plan that meets the agency’s demands.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2023
  • But instead it’s been whiplash, as courts grapple with a host of legal challenges by gun owners and advocacy groups.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The initial release came as the court granted a request by a news media advocacy group to unseal more of the record since aspects of the case have become public.
    — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The Anti-Defamation League, an advocacy group that combats antisemitism, ripped Tlaib for a previous use of the phrase in 2020.
    — Brandon Gillespie, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2023
  • McGlynn noted in his ruling that the gun-rights advocacy groups who asked for the injunction will still have a chance to argue why the ban and its registry should not be enforced.
    — Jeremy Gorner Chicago Tribune (tns), arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Patient advocacy groups are built of good people with good intentions and great loss.
    — Jon Hu, STAT, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Like in Texas and Iowa, advocacy groups are concerned that law enforcement would turn to racial profiling to enforce it.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Humble advocacy in times of crisis is what good Catholics do because Jesus said good works are best done outside the limelight.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
  • The actress has long been a champion for mental health advocacy.
    — Sandra Rose Salathe, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
  • According to the fundraiser, any excess money will go to a mental health advocacy program in New York City.
    — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 27 May 2023
  • The sales tax on period products is only one part of a multi-faceted challenge for consumers who need them, advocacy groups said.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The boycott, organized by the digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future, calls for the ban of face-scanning technology at all live events.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2023
  • Much of the research on shorter workweeks, however, has been done by advocacy groups like Lockhart’s.
    — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The idea for the soft interview room was suggested by Morgan, who contacted advocacy group Project Beloved.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
  • As early as 2015, advocacy groups in the U.K. sounded the alarm about the clinic’s life-altering interventions on young patients.
    — The Editors, National Review, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The district attorney’s advocacy may bring some clarity to the issue: Greene plans to file a lawsuit over the revocation of his license to carry.
    — Anthony Hennen | The Center Square, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The day the resolution was introduced, Adam Ramer, in his texts with Khanna, ramped up his internal advocacy.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The strips can often be obtained from advocacy groups, local and state health departments, or purchased online.
    — Samantha Hendrickson, ajc, 8 June 2023
  • Videos shared by the advocacy group HalVash, which reports on issues affecting the Baluch people, showed helicopters flying over the area in daylight.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The Olivers aren’t alone among Stoneman Douglas families in their public advocacy since the massacre, with positions taken on both sides of the gun debate.
    — Terry Spencer, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • On Wednesday, the child’s advocacy group called on TechNet’s members to leave the organization or denounce the group’s behavior.
    — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The advocacy group Streets for All, which has been pushing for fewer traffic fatalities and more bus and bike lanes, issued a round of candidate endorsements this week.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The courts have grown much more rigorous in doing so since the mid 1980s, under the influence of Justice Antonin Scalia’s advocacy for textualism.
    — The Editors, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
  • That advocacy later served as inspiration for the Boitoi brand, which Williams co-founded with his longtime friend James Jerlecki.
    — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
  • And then three special prizes for leadership, community service, and advocacy of the arts.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The competition is run by the Center for Education Reform, a school-choice advocacy group.
    — Laura Meckler, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Sanders ventured so far as to say emails he’s exchanged through advocacy work with the Vanderbilt hospital program could be caught up in the attorney general’s probe.
    — Anita Wadhwani, al, 22 June 2023
  • The advocacy group Ekō had used the monetization code and tools based on it to study financial support for problematic content on YouTube.
    — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Just one-third of respondents ages 12 to 17 said things were going well for children and teenagers today, in a survey published Monday by Common Sense Media, a children’s advocacy group.
    — Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024

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