temperance advocate
Example Sentences
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Mysteria was a big temperance advocate, for both women and men who wrote in.
From Slate • May 16, 2021
A convert to Universalism, he became a passionate temperance advocate and supported women’s rights and abolitionism.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2017
This bill was greeted with all the enthusiasm of a temperance advocate in a bar by the Renewal Fuel Association, which exists to promote ethanol usage.
From Forbes • Feb. 9, 2015
General Martinez, a model General, is not only an officer: he is a vegetarian, a temperance advocate, an authority on agricultural reform.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was not a total abstainer as regards either wine or tobacco, but was moderate in the use of both; a temperance advocate in the true sense of the word.
From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Morse, Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese)
