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For all his claims to resilience in the face of criticism, he is not as thick-skinned as he professes to be.
Of course, no believer in freedom can accept that a person should be imprisoned simply because of the ideas that he or she professes.
A person commits an offence if he belongs or professes to belong to a prescribed organisation.
Carr often professes admiration for the sage detachment of the ancient Roman emperor-philosopher Marcus Aurelius.
Do I mean everybody who professes an orthodox creed, and bows his head at the belief?
He professes to be unpractical, yet is prone to complex diagrams to explain the inner workings of telecom circuits and market dynamics.
When he asks why she is in therapy, she blithely professes ignorance and discusses the finer points of gourmet cooking.
One is England's brash young egomaniac, the other is Australia's wiliest winner of mind games, and the pair professes to be bosom buddies.
Cook, for his part, professes to have been unaware of any ill-feeling until 1987 at the earliest.
Lauren Bacall stars as Lucy, about to marry Kyle when Rock Hudson's Mitch professes his undying love.
Ask him about it, though, and he still professes amazement that he was even allowed on to the stage.
This time he is actively hated by the leaders of the dispossessed to whom he professes his allegiance.
Raikkonen still professes confidence in his team, but admits that testing has proved problematic.
While he professes admiration for the British filmmaker, he says he owes his greatest debt to another source.
Haslam professes an enthusiasm for lots of stuff all the time, and that's certainly been a keynote of Schvedtar's tenure on Edmonton stages.
Even the anti-EU opposition, in truth, professes just another vision of Europeanism.
In the email he professes his support for the program, his enchantment with the lockbox and various other points.
He professes to know end-times revelation and seems omnipresent and omnipotent, virtually accepted by all.
This is a direct disproval of the alleged facts on which the system professes to rest.
Yet Emma has just returned to her roots, sailing a dinghy in the Clyde with a 15-year-old girl from Helensburgh Sailing Club, and professes to have enjoyed every minute of it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Hindus belong mostly to the Jammu province, where nearly half of the population professes that faith.
Martial professes to be of the school of Catullus, pedo, and Marsus, and admits his inferiority only to the first.
A voluptuary in love, he professes not that delicacy which refines all its joys.
A superficies is that which professes to have principle, but has no consistency.
He professes great friendship for the English, as well as for the people of Abeokuta.
The Camden professes, as we have seen, to be general to the British Empire.
To Bowring we also owe the deontology, which professes to represent Bentham's dictation.
In every home that professes to any respectability, foot-binding is an absolutely essential thing for the girls in it.
The youngest professes to give us a statement about the hidage of thirteen counties.
Although he professes to be my enemy I have sympathy for him, and if he is reasonable perhaps we shall arrange matters.
For both of them he professes a respect in the open court, which contrasts with his manner of speaking about them in other places.
The culprit falters excuses, and professes a determination to do better tomorrow.
That is the question which comte's first master-work professes to answer.
How could I make such a proposition, especially to a woman who always professes to be so entirely disinterested?
The copy is to the original as the pallid, smart, inane new wax-work group is to the vigorous, earnest, dignified group of living men and women whom it professes to duplicate.
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