Some newshawks have professed to detect Davenport style and Willkie rhetoric. |
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True sore winners, they bristled with outrage at being judged for their results, not their professed intentions. |
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By which they both meant that any professed happiness must swiftly pass, strained through gritted teeth. |
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She never professed to be a dancer herself and admitted to stage fright, but she gamely appeared in a few festival programs. |
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His main concern is not to do or say anything which may offend the party bosses or which goes against the professed stand of the party. |
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The campaign professed not to be worried that the president had gone off-message. |
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The liberals of the nation rallied to laud her and condemn those who professed to defend their inalienable right to continue with this practice. |
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I was beginning to feel all tingly as he gazed into the limpid pool of my eyes and professed his honorable intentions. |
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As a professed radical, he was to prove a singularly jaded observer of parliaments, parliamentary processes, and parliamentarians. |
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There may be a distinction between the professed ideology of a group and the actual beliefs of individual members. |
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Despite her professed intent, Barbara is more successful in documenting her own growing obsession with Sheba than Sheba's ill-advised amour. |
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There's cognitive dissonance between our professed support for meritocracy and our behaviour when our own children are involved. |
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The way this has been announced contrasts sharply with their professed belief in partnership. |
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He earned his doctorate in Roman history at the Sorbonne, and has professed that subject for many years at the University of Paris. |
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He was professed in 1965 in the Capuchin Order, a religious order dedicated to following the traditions of St. Francis of Assisi. |
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Throughout the years consumers have professed their lifelong love of America's number one mustard. |
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These gatherings are a major event for professed evangelicals in the Church of England. |
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They could call me to account when my actions didn't match my professed beliefs. |
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While large numbers of Americans professed religious belief, the depth of their conviction appeared weak. |
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Male monasteries did not require dowries of their professed members and represented less of a threat to the family patrimony. |
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And their professed adhesion to the economic formula of Socialism would not of itself be good enough to alter my attitude towards them. |
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For many nuns their status as a professed religious did not necessarily obviate access to various parts of familial patrimony. |
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Joshua professed to have no direct connection with the traditional deities other than Ogun, patron of woodcarvers and all who work with metal. |
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Sometimes inheritance disputes began with professed nuns claiming a portion of a brother's estate. |
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On these occasions he always professed his innocence of the murder, although he knew who did it. |
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He was the mushers' choice for best sportsman among the pack, and he professed to be unable to see why. |
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The danger is that we should confuse the reputability of beliefs, and the reputability of those who professed them, with depth or shallowness. |
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After seeing him close his mouth, I abruptly turned away and resumed staring at the idiotic carvings of professed lovers, etched into my desk. |
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In stark contrast to the Anglophile sentiments professed to in the Daily Telegraph, the Hale interview was militantly anti-British in tone. |
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Diplomacy is often compared to poker, even when conducted between professed friends. |
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It initially professed to arbitrage international fixed income markets but over time got significantly into equities. |
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His professed attitude of withholding assent was adopted to avoid error and rashness of judgement. |
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He had never professed love, just a lustful possessive desire that fueled the cruelty in his obsession. |
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Thousands professed to have found salvation in Christ through Templeton's preaching. |
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So the object of my desires has just professed her true feelings for me, what now? |
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After that very day, where they professed their feelings for each other, Matthew and I spent almost all of all time together, alone. |
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Then in my most girl like of ways I shed a couple of tears and professed undying love. |
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I'm a devout monarchist, a professed atheist, and I'm working on my fourth novel. |
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Can she who professed delicacy of sentiment and sincere regard for me, use me so very basely and so very cruelly? |
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The problem is that their professed ideals are at odds with their lack of self-awareness. |
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The man is a menace to everything he once professed to represent, which makes him either delusional or hypocritical. |
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The fact that he always laughs over the book, shows what a fraud his professed belief in the separableness of mind and body actually is. |
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Bottoms's own professed interest in Jung also invites that particular psychological approach. |
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He professed that his mama had birthed him in a cotton field, cut her own cord, tied him to her back and then kept on working. |
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Fortunately, there seems to be little evidence that Prendergast's team of translators shares his professed desire to rough Proust up a bit. |
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He professed to be hurt and affronted by suggestions that he was just trying to gaslight a competitor's customers. |
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These churches professed a belief in predestination, a theological tenet that suggests the futility of the ambitious pursuit of wealth. |
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It is the professed goal of these international firms to obtain the lowest unit production costs on a worldwide basis. |
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When does less than full belief in a professed credo become actionable fraud if one is soliciting gifts or legacies? |
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Could we not argue instead that his professed beliefs merely reflect the needs of the hour? |
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I know by my family history that a forebear of mine turned on the gods of Mother India and professed faith to the One True God. |
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Throughout the novel Doc remains loyal to his male characters, even the Weasel, his professed nemesis. |
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Some male executives make a point of brewing their own coffee to symbolize their professed non-sexist orientation. |
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All of the male presenters professed their great esteem for the women on stage, peppering their praises with off-the-cuff humor. |
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As a professed historian, he exhibits an inexcusable absence of mind. |
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And by the way, if we really are just a colony of Europe, where did the rock and roll she professed to love so much come from? |
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In Brazil, where Germany made one of its strongest thrusts into Latin America, German immigrants professed greater loyalty to the Brazilian state than to the kaiser. |
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In this respect, none of the land grant institutions appears to have successfully emphasized lengthy in country experiences, despite a professed plethora of opportunities. |
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He came from Toledo and was a famous painter of still lifes there by 1603 when he professed as a lay brother in the Carthusian order and moved to Granada. |
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As a professed bi-sexual, Evans is misunderstood by those who find her choices offensive. |
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When it was fashionable to be a Marxian, he professed Marxism. |
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Still, when asked who masterminded the whole plot, mesel professed not to know. |
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He was professed as a Redemptorist in 1950, and ordained a priest seven years later. |
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The country at the center of professed Pan-Arabism became an essential tool in dividing the Arab world. |
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He professed that the Emperor was the true sovereign of Japan. |
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In spite of their professed desire to modernize, many Qing officials believed that the basic principles of Chinese statecraft were based on Confucian prescriptions. |
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That sort of unintended leverage greatly sweetened the deal on behalf of the professed owners, a lot more than the intruders cared to admit to each other. |
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This article examines the contentious and frequently litigious relationship between convents and the families of professed nuns in early-modern Spain. |
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Sr Piggott, who celebrated her 50th anniversary as a professed sister last October, said she was overjoyed to learn that Nano had topped the poll. |
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It was not only dowries, alimentos, and other financial sums required by the convent that allowed professed daughters to remain connected to their families' property. |
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Yet, most of their professed coaching is informal, with little to no expected outcome or formal parameters. |
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At least since Kant, we philosophers and philosophasters have all professed ourselves dissatisfied with the Cartesian cogito ergo sum. |
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The Martineau family was of French Huguenot ancestry and professed Unitarian views. |
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They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. |
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They both professed to interpret Adam Smith as the true prophet, and represented different shades of opinion rather than diverging sects. |
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Ed Miliband professed ignorance of the comment when he was approached by the BBC later. |
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The Governor immediately professed that he knew nothing about the incident. |
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In the 1970s, film director Stanley Kubrick professed his opposition to primitivism. |
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In 385 or 386 the emperor and his mother Justina, along with a considerable number of clergy and laity, especially military, professed Arianism. |
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He professed to have decided to become a sculptor when he was eleven after hearing of Michelangelo's achievements at a Sunday School reading. |
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The philosopher to whom above all others Hamilton professed allegiance was Aristotle. |
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He professed his intent that people look at the urinal as if it were a work of art because he said it was a work of art. |
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The Constitution of the British Virgin Islands commences with a professed national belief in God. |
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Danby had publicly professed that he was hostile to France, but had reservedly agreed to abide by Charles's wishes. |
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Wyatt's professed object was to experiment with the English tongue, to civilise it, to raise its powers to those of its neighbours. |
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In the United States alone there are 17,000 professed members of the order. |
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The billions who have professed faith in the God of Abraham over millennia of human history may then be fairly called Yahwists. |
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Churchill and Roosevelt either did not believe in the democratist ideology they professed or did not believe in it enough to stand up for it in Stalin's presence. |
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Moreover, wartime China's professed frontier and Tibetan policy at the highest official level did not necessarily affect the actual Sino-Tibetan political scenario. |
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In his lifetime Shaw professed many beliefs, often contradictory. |
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Department of Veterans Affairs refused permission to include on the plaque a Wiccan symbol, a pentacle inside a circle, for Stewart's professed religion. |
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He is a self professed Soul Powered Nerd and one of the winners in this year's MOBO awards that showcase the best in urban and black music talent. |
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