The women have been under what advocates describe as house arrest.

Some advocates of loosening laws against selling kidneys for transplants describe such agreements as winning arrangements.

But even the advocates describe the tradition as politically untouchable.

He has repeatedly displayed what many social-service advocates describe as a callousness toward constituencies not his own - the poor.

Both company officials and environmental advocates describe the new plant, on 550 acres of the factory site, as the largest industrial ecology effort in the world.

Social workers and advocates described rampant abuse, but none expressed the desire to hand the cases over to an American who had parachuted in.

In the latter, advocates of the practice described their experiences and talked about how they try to set limits for themselves.

For example, an advocate appearing before a court on which a single judge was sitting could describe that judge as 'their tribunal'.

Two years ago, advocates for the homeless were describing the city's handling of the Holland as plain incompetence.

More than 20 million do not have what advocates describe as reliable access to comprehensive health care.