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Others who had found that church too theologically liberal for their tastes espoused a more traditional theology.
He is considered one of the founding fathers of Africanism, a philosophy that espoused an almost militant pride in blackness.
But perhaps the real similarity lies in the smash-and-grab variety of science both fossickers blithely espoused.
Each period of time is characterised by the ideas espoused at that time and these ideas compared with similar ones of the past.
It espoused ideas of the freeborn Englishman resisting the arbitrary powers of his masters and praying in his nonconformist chapel.
Yet the system of thought he espoused was not primitive, historical or fundamentalist, but rather thoroughly contemporary.
They espoused an ultranationalistic ideology which advocated the formation of an exclusively Turkish state.
I know that it is a fundamentally different philosophy to that espoused by Labour.
The conservatives staunchly supported it and espoused centralism versus federalism.
Verdi scholars hold differing opinions as to when he actually espoused the nationalist cause.
The old view, espoused by Aeschylus and Shakespeare and many in between, was that good drama must involve royalty or nobility.
A cadet of the family of the Earls of Lincoln, he espoused, along with many other scions of noble houses, the royal side in the civil war.
Thereafter it happened that the maid who escaped marriage with a lord, came to be espoused to Clovis, son of the former king Dagobert.
The Vienna Circle espoused a verification theory of meaning but did not take it seriously enough.
The museum houses a library with about 60,000 books related to Gandhi and the various causes he espoused.
This decision was based on natural law principles, rather than on the legal positivism espoused by the Supreme Court judges in the X case.
In 1921 he travelled to Paris, where, following a meeting with Picasso, he abandoned the fauvist style that he had previously espoused and began to experiment with cubism.
They tend to prove the simultaneous affluence and effluence of the electric matter, a doctrine long since espoused, and very well supported by our author.
Moreover, black Episcopalians have consistently held the Church's feet to the fire, and reminded it when its actions have been inconsistent with the principles it espoused.
Four years have I been espoused to our gracious King, Alban of Mann.
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Eventually he returned to the party which he had espoused, and escaped to France.
He had been living all these years for himself, was it not time that he espoused some other motive?
I do not ask your name, nor do I wish to know which cause you have espoused.
Lysandra was, in a short time, followed in her flight by many of the nobles and chieftains of Macedon, who had espoused her cause.
He was aristocrat by conviction as well as birth, and if he espoused a popular cause it was de haut en bas.
He afterwards seemed to disclaim the republication he had espoused.
And especially, how would she be regarded by her espoused husband?
She had a brother, named Leonidas, who warmly espoused her cause.
He had not espoused the infanta nor been crowned King of France.
A pretty dispute followed, in which Edna warmly espoused her father's cause and the Doctor remained neutral.
But the great attraction was a pamphlet called The Thunderer, which espoused their own opinions, and was supposed at that time to emanate directly from the Association.
No fears of the tin-pot warmongering of the madhouse, as espoused by the last Republican keeper of the White House, the non-lamented George W Bush.
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