How To Use Avowed In A Sentence

History as necromancy is avowed in the Preface to Life of Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality'
A false friend is worse than an avowed enemy.
“Actually, I’ve been known to be witty for a full ten minutes,” Gawain avowed with a lift of his eyebrows. DIALOGUE • by Resha Caner
Residents -- whether for the purposes unblushingly avowed by that sometime favourite of the stage, Mr. Eccles, or for the reasons less horrifying to the United Kingdom Alliance -- found themselves more at home in "Caesarea" than in "Sarnia," and the "five-pounder," as the summer tripper was despiteously called by natives, liked to go as far as he could for his money, and found St. Helier's "livelier" than A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
Tom Goldstein, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where impressionable novitiates are prepared for the high calling of the Fourth Estate, avowed that Wright was just ‘a corporate citizen’ doing his job.

Like its predecessors, the novel comes dripping in satire, but this time of a more avowedly self-reflexive nature. The Times Literary Supplement
The board disavowed the action of the executive.
The counter-demonstrators, a self-avowed violent anti-Klan group, consisted of young blacks and Hispanics from the inner city.
Mr.R. M.T. Hunter, an avowed bimetallist, in a report to the United States Senate, said: Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
So, without preconceptions, this is a brisk, well-balanced, fruit forward, but still avowedly savoury wine, that would be a piquant pairing with the crisp, dry snap of well grilled salmon cutlets - a texture lost in pan frying.
This good fortune is attributed to the owner, Mrs. Viola Vickham, an avowed Francophobe who refused to buy or serve any French imports, including the infamous "adverse cam(em)ber(t). Archive 2006-08-01
Obama is not an "avowed" Marxist and I'll bet next month's rent that you cannot define Marxism. How a capital gains tax break could get cash to startups
Thanks to changes in the tax law engineered when another avowedly pro-business Democrat, Bill Clinton, was president, U.S. multinational financial companies can avoid taxes on their international scams. Robert Scheer: Obama's Fatal Addiction
Its strength is not disavowed by its disparate and often contrary nature.
Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children
GCHQ's cover was blown by Time Out in 1976, but it was only officially "avowed" in 1982 when Geoffrey Prime, a former linguist at GCHQ, was jailed for 38 years for passing secrets to the Russians over a 14-year period. Not so secret: deal at the heart of UK-US intelligence
A failed school teacher who became Minister of Education; a one-time Methodist minister turned avowed atheist.
One could wonder how an account of the logic or the consistency of concepts might be described as avowedly optimistic. 'Liberal Nationalism'
But far from being examined - let alone disavowed - the policies behind these developments are being redoubled.
You'd have to be very unobservant not to have noticed that there are an awful lot of bloggers with an avowedly (and sometimes aggressively) libertarian political philosophy.
Durey's use of bi- and polytonality is less strident and upfront than Milhaud's, and he mixes it with a plangent lyricism which, despite Durey's avowed intention to forget Ravel, is surely influenced by the latter's quartet of 1903.
Since sero-converting, Tyler has become an avowed barebacker. New York Press
Samurai and medieval warriors wept to show that they truly felt the code of honour they avowed. Times, Sunday Times
Even when such witnesses could be portrayed as acknowledging this inadequacy with what narratology calls ‘modal locutions’ such as ‘I seemed to hear’ or ‘I perceived,’ these, according to Knight, must be read as ‘unavowed paralepses’.
However, from this position of avowed inferiority, could I possibly make two tiny observations?
It is a society in which homosexuality is rarely avowed.
The agency's inclusiveness, its solicitude toward the divergent perspectives of many different stakeholders, fit with its avowed mission of neutrality.
Another name glided into her petition --- it was that of the wounded Christian, whom fate had placed in the hands of bloodthirsty men, his avowed enemies. Ivanhoe
They're avowed enemies of the current Cuban state.
He was, despite considerable wealth, his own plane and boat, both of which he piloted, avowedly antimaterialist. Times, Sunday Times
Such avowed Protestants embrace universalism on the grounds that all are condemned in Christ's death but accepted in His resurrection.
It is why Israelis recently voted in right winger Binyamin Netanyahu and why he, in turn, was compelled to name avowed racist Avigdor Lieberman, founder of far-right Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home party, whose electoral base are the immigrants from the former Soviet Union) as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. The Circular Dangers of John Hagee, AIPAC and Netanyahu
Stormfront has become a bridge to the mainstream, where controversial comments strangely mirror the rhetoric of avowed racists.
I'm bowled over by a Pentecostal preacher who is honest to the extent that I, an avowed agnostic, am prepared to sing hosannas to him.
By 1976, as America elected its first avowedly born again president, 44 percent of Americans said that the influence of religion was once again rising. American Grace
And for its value and utility it must be plainly avowed that that wisdom which we have derived principally from the Greeks is but like the boyhood of knowledge, and has the characteristic property of boys: it can talk, but it cannot generate, for it is fruitful of controversies but barren of works. The Great Instauration
He is, at once, a forward looking evolutionist, and an avowed eugenicist.
The insistence on the exclusion of English has become, as of now, a sort of status symbol, a touchstone of supremacy and learning, to many of our linguistic torch-bearers, not to speak of their avowed predilection for regionalism.
Madame Tallien, who is supposed occasionally to dictate decrees to the Convention, presides with a more avowed and certain sway over the realms of fashion; and the Turkish draperies that may float very gracefully on a form like hers, are imitated by rotund sesquipedal Fatimas, who make one regret even the tight lacings and unnatural diminishings of our grandmothers. A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795
Acknowledging the confusion, the Supreme Court in 1990 disavowed its earlier opinions and announced a new approach.
The new Prayer Book of 1552 was avowedly Protestant; altars were turned into tables, clerical vestments were downgraded and religious orthodoxy was enforced by a new and more stringent Act of Uniformity.
Agreed that Zell's technique, which cynically is used but disavowed or denied when challenged, is old news. Balkinization
I've long been an avowed enemy of benchmarking, because at its heart it amounts to exaltation of imitation.
His invocation of Lincoln and Washington, and his avowed determination to make hard choices, suggest the former.
There are a lot of regular guests who turn up just to tuck into salads, including many who are avowed weight-watchers.
In his most lucid moments, however, Emerson disavowed his Dionysian rhetoric.
It is a society in which homosexuality is rarely avowed.
A false friend is worse than an avowed enemy.
They rejected the proposition of the Cincinnati Conference of the M.E. Church to establish, or aid in establishing, a school of a high order for colored youth, upon the ground that it seemed to be the scheme of an avowed colonizationist, * History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Nowadays, resemble peddling avowedly on Internet so the net shop of contraband is not little.
She firmly believes in her father's avowed words.
their policy has been avowedly Marxist
This ‘charming’ story, avowedly in opposition to economics, concerns the evils of industrialism and the inferiority of the African people.
Your avowed friendly countries are like North Korea , which is a rogue nation, and Pakistan , which is sponsor of terrorism.
I think for us to move forward intellectually and politically in avowedly self-reflexive representational spaces such as Kafila - we must be more attentive to the former aspect of subalternity - an effect of power not only as in structures of representation but also as in interactive fields where the elite and the subaltern categories are coproduced. Kafila
Mr. Blunkett was clear in his avowed intention to undertake full consultation.
Berezovsky is now in exile in London, an avowed enemy of President Putin.
It was not the intention of the framers of this law to demonetize silver, because they were openly avowed bimetallists, but it limited coinage to silver bought by the government at market price. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
You cannot separate Hinduism from Buddhism, for without it Hinduism could not have assumed its medieval shape and some forms of Buddhism, such as Lamaism, countenance Brahmanic deities and ceremonies, while in Java and Camboja the two religions were avowedly combined and declared to be the same. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Declaration of Independence an Example of Secession, Revolution, or Both?
An aide avowed that the President had known nothing of the deals.
She avowed herself a singer.
He avowed that he would never cooperate with them again.
It is implied, however, that this is never more than a pretence, a cover, behind which he conceals his unavowed determination to remain at a stage from which he could, if he chose, release himself.
In this respect Anderson is a rare breed among geophysicists, an avowed generalist.
I also felt pain, and to avoid its endurance for me, I openly and avowedly burdened others with double, treble, centuple its amount. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
The Fascist Party openly avowed its aversion to democracy and the liberal state.
An avowedly progressive group, JFSJ has been taking aim at Beck for some time over his attacks on the concept of 'social justice.' EXCLUSIVE: Holocaust historian's quote used to slam Beck without permission
A distinction was always the avowed aim. Times, Sunday Times
We are endangered from the outside by our avowed enemies.
The avowed aim of the Treasury is to reduce new debt from the present 50 billion German marks to zero by the year 2006.
The witness of the Spirit in the believer himself to his own sonship is not here expressed, but follows as a consequence of believing the witness of God to Jesus 'divine Sonship. believeth not God -- credits not His witness. made him a liar -- a consequence which many who virtually, or even avowedly, do not believe, may well startle back from as fearful blasphemy and presumption (1Jo 1: 10). believeth not the record -- Greek, "believeth not IN the record, or witness. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It’s past time for sane Believers to join agnostics and atheists in using the same weapon against those who hide behind their avowed Faith. Think Progress » ‘Climate Crime Scene’ declared at Smithsonian’s David H. Koch Hall Of Human Origins.
• Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, an avowed otaku, is calling upon manga, anime, fashion and video games to help pull his country out of a recession. Food or Comics | Money, comics and the economy | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
The board disavowed the action of the executive.
As a hakim -- a man of medicine -- he could fill a long-felt want; but by the brand on his accouterments he walked an openly avowed robber, and that made him a brother in crime. In The Time Of Light
(“Friendship-boon”) of Prakrit, avowedly compiled from the “Panchatantra,” became the Hindu Panchopakhyan, the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
That strikes me as a very accurate picture of contemporary American culture: the intellectuals, like Harold Bloom and the late Susan Sontag, are all avowedly non-professional and non-aligned.
Those States have assume the right ofdeciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteenof the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they havepermitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign theproperty of the citizens of other States. DISUNION!
Having married her, as he openly avowed, for her fortune alone, he soon dissipated this, the solitary charm she possessed for him, and was then unmanful enough to taunt her with the inconveniences of that penury which his own extravagance had occasioned. Life of Lord Byron
Acknowledging the confusion, the Supreme Court in 1990 disavowed its earlier opinions and announced a new approach.
Mr. Fillmore took strong ground against what he called a sectional ticket presenting both candidates from the free states, with the avowed purpose of one part of the Union ruling over the whole United Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
They publicly disavowed any connection with terrorist groups.
The avowed objective was to underpin one of the favored Lebanese factions enmeshed in the multilateral disputes in the country.
Resentment of this magnitude was a clear indication of the failure of the avowed policy of pacification and Romanization.
We worked with one hotel chain that avowed to the point of dementia its commitment to customer service and comfort.
Americans are increasingly concentrated at opposite ends of the religious spectrum—the highly religious at one pole, and the avowedly secular at the other. American Grace
Resentment of this magnitude was a clear indication of the failure of the avowed policy of pacification and Romanization.
If he were an avowed pragmatist with a disinclination to moralise, that would be another matter. Times, Sunday Times
I especially like the distinction between the "avowed" state, whether in the form of marriage or consecrated life, and the charism of freedom that characterizes the state of those who are called to singlehood. Archive 2005-08-01
Yet Marx's original position was not deter - minist: it was avowedly a radical version of Hegelian - ism, in which the self-alienated God of Hegel's Phe - nomenology became self-alienated productive man. DETERMINISM IN HISTORY
Its strength is not disavowed by its disparate and often contrary nature.
He avowed himself an opponent of all alliances.
What's more, Clark added, ‘the administration's never disavowed this intent.’
Leap not from my car, even though I realize — given my confessed extramarital affair, avowed childhood desire to see my father explode into flames, and carpet of tattered Happy Meal wrappers — I may not strike you as the most reliable explicator of modern marriage. Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
It is the classical ‘rounded sentence’, avowedly expressing a complete thought, adopted by writers in the European vernaculars from the prose stylists of Greece and Rome.
The manager disavowed any knowledge of my actions.
Some examples of partition have been accepted, with the original land being divided between two sets of peoples, this despite the avowed respect for territorial integrity.
The culmination is its avowedly "apolitical" Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the Mall on Saturday. Jon Stewart, President Obama debate on 'The Daily Show'
For many avowed foodies and shopaholics, a trip to the FoodWorld is almost a weekly ritual that they thoroughly enjoy.
But before they reach that point of open and avowed defeat, they will fight tooth and nail to maintain the standard of excellence to which they have become accustomed.
One e-mail avowed that too many majors and lieutenant colonels flounder in their first joint assignments.
So just how does an avowed introvert who shuns fame and has lacked, for the last 16 years she says, the basic ability to make friends, take such an extroverted record on the road and communicate it to others?
He is an avowed hater of literature.
The reclaimed faithful need only forgo the ordination of women and of (I think I should here add the word avowed) homosexuals. The Men Who Made England
This was undoubtedly encouraged when the Luxembourg architect Leon Krier, an avowed classicist and superb delineator, joined Stirling ' s office in 1968. Postmodernism
The disavowal of nothingness hides another disavowed, even more denegated and foreclosed thing, the inertia of the self-pleasurer, who after all appears in the form of an inert statue, a self-consuming artifact, the static image of a meditator disappearing into nothing, and/or dissolving into enjoyment. Hegel on Buddhism
The two men then announced that a year-long study would be commissioned to establish how the military would accommodate those who seek to serve but who insist on doing so as avowedly gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and "intersexed" (formerly known as hermaphrodite) folks. Catholic Exchange
While I support how the President is doing, my avowedly socialist wife is mad that he's not doing enough. Poll: No change in Obama's approval on health care
Likewise Montesquieu in his Essay on Taste owes him more than is avowed.
The Italian Pontecorvo, an avowed communist, had wanted to make a tract against colonialism.
For the following hour, we pursued this occupation with silent intensity, the quiet of the room broken only by the dry, crepitant rustle of the turning pages, and the occasional muttered complaint from my companion, who periodically avowed that he would “sooner be wrassling a passel of wildcats than wading through all this infernal writing.” Nevermore
Countisbury, which are supposed to have been scattered and buried by a resident clergyman at the close of the last century, with the avowed intention of "fogging" later antiquarians -- surely the strangest Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland
It is a great tragedy that such research bodies in social sciences be controlled by those who are avowed opponents of secularism.
But, as Althusser said, bourgeois philosophy "lives by its denegation," the promise of an objective knowledge of what philosophy is, as a practice, which is offered by Marxism, is always denegated, or disavowed, by bourgeois philosophers, who assert that such knowledge is impossible. Political Affairs Magazine
The defendants avowed intention was to disrupt the airfield.
Those States have assumed the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution: they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. Boing Boing
For if any of the commoners were to make avowry for beasts taken in the common pasture it would then follow that if the Inquest were to pass against the plaintiff, he who avowed the taking in the common pasture would have the return of the beasts and the amends, and not the lord of the pasture, and that would be improper. The Customs of Old England
As I said earlier, I think that from individual to individual there is no way to make any kind of prejudgment of a man’s respect of a woman’s rights based on his avowed politics. Why liberals (or leftists, or socialists or anarchists) don’t make better lovers
Trocchi, novelist and avowed internationalist, could keep quiet no longer.
Lady Eskdale sent off another groom to Lord Eskdale, and tried to finish her sandwich, but thought the bread was dry and the butter strong, and again sipped her gooseberry wine, and avowed that she never quite liked home-made wines. The Semi-Attached Couple
Other men, perhaps less certain of their status, or with more avowedly polemic things to express, were less retiring.
The United States, Hayes avowed, would not surrender its control over any isthmian canal to any European power or combination of powers. The Path Between the Seas
Its best score in other polls has been 4 percent, but pollsters say it may have higher unavowed support.
It is avowedly a pastoral drama, and sets forth a whole troop of gods and goddesses; with nothing that can properly be called delineation of character. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
Meanwhile, Baby Brother avowed that such a request was unfair, since the error was innocent and inconsequential.
Sinclair Lewis, however, was an avowed admirer.
The visitors at their late meeting being requested by mr Brockenbro 'to enquire into the charges brought against him by Oldham, came to a resolution that their Exece commee should first enquire of Oldham whether he avowed the anonymous lre to mr Griffin, and would furnish evidence of the charges: & in that case that we should have the deposns taken and report them to the next meeting. Letters to and from Jefferson, 1823
The Government's avowed intent/purpose/aim is to reduce tax.
They can also see that the candidates have avowed not to disturb the corporate status quo.
A false friend is worse than an avowed enemy.
Casuals United (the name drawn from the football hoolie “casual” movement of the early 1980s) have also been quieter of late; the aims and aspirations and mission statements of the three groups are absolutely identical: avowedly non-racist, patriotic, anti-Muslim extremist, strongly pro British armed forces etc - and all seem to be drawn from the football terraces. The roots of the EDL
The avowedly staunch centrist governor lurched leftward.
[861] A reference to the History of France will explain Knox's allusion to the treacherous conduct of Henry the Second, in the arrestment and execution of two of his councillors who had avowed their attachment to the Protestant faith. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
Let's take a look at just a few of the other issues that I, as an avowed antichoicer, am ready to address: AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
The director disavowed the remark that had been attributed to him.
What does Russia do in the next decade, when it's predicted that over 40% of their conscripts will be avowed muslim youth, if they ever find it needfull to stand against another Muslim state? Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor"
A false friend is worse than an avowed enemy.
“Voltaire,” he informs them, “declares there is no God;” he was “an antitheist, that is one who deliberately and avowedly opposed and hated God; who swore in his blasphemy that he would dethrone him;” and “advocated the very depths of the lowest sensuality.” The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
Although its avowed purpose was to bring together the feuding revolutionary factions, it only succeeded in hastening the final split. Alone at the top: the achievement of Alvaro Obregón
And what the mere situation of sitting down to write may cause to avowed intention is well known to Freudian theory. The Times Literary Supplement
The Government's avowed intent/purpose/aim is to reduce tax.
It matters little whether such intervention occurs avowedly or through action that in - evitably tends to check the ardor and fearlessness of scholars, qualities at once so fragile and so indispensable for fruitful academic labor ACADEMIC FREEDOM
The real, though typically unavowed, function of the sceptic's apparently naked challenges is to raise the level of the debate in just this way.
One of those illegitimate blockades, bearing date in May, 1806, having been expressly avowed to be still unrescinded, and to be in effect comprehended in the orders in council, was too distinctly brought within the purview of the act of Congress not to be comprehended in the explanation of the requisites to a compliance with it. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
That strikes me as a very accurate picture of contemporary American culture: the intellectuals, like Harold Bloom and the late Susan Sontag, are all avowedly non-professional and non-aligned.
Every time he avowed that he wanted to be admired, not liked, Mr. Giuliani was, in Mr. Siegel's view, laying claim to his Machiavellian princeliness.
This outfit, better known as the avowedly terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization, suppressed state TV coverage of West Bank Arabs on 9/11. Ken Blackwell: Hillary: Counting Jews in Jerusalem
The same general policy was true for adults, and the avowed aim of the justice system was rehabilitation.
Though Schreiner avowed that she was seeking a kind of realism see her preface to the 2nd edition, her realism is a felt realism rather than a fact realism. The Story of an African Farm
A handsome full-length portrait had been presented to the poet by the municipal authorities of Agen; and a letter from M. Lamartine, framed, above the chimney-piece, avowed the writer's belief that the Troubadour of the Garonne was the Homer of the modern world. Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
In short, we parted, nor held a correspond-ence in absence: but afterwards meeting, by acci — dent, at Padua, and Jeronymo having, in the interim, been led into inconveniences, he avowed a change of principles, and the friendship was renewed. Sir Charles Grandison
At no other period in the history of man have the environment and development been viewed as such avowed enemies.
We worked with one hotel chain that avowed to the point of dementia its commitment to customer service and comfort.
In the _Imperial Dictionary_ (avowedly based upon Webster's American work, which I cannot at this moment refer to in its original form), the word in question is given both as an adjective and as a verb, and the derivatives "sparsed," "sparsedly," "sparsely," and "sparseness," are also admitted. Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850
He argues that historically the reaction of lesser states has been determined more by the potential power of the dominant state than by its actual behaviour or avowed intentions.
In it, nonnuclear countries promise not to acquire nuclear weapons and the five avowed nuclear powers - Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States - promise not to transfer them.
They agree with him in the pacific principles which he has avowed, and look forward to a continued career of useful services, in which the resources of that great empire will be more than ever developed under his control, and the power of the British name perpetuated by a wise, an upright, and a fearless Administration. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
His avowed aim is to write about, ‘people whose stories are seldom told, because they constitute the underbelly of society.’
Our operations in the field were greatly extended by reason of this policy, which, heretofore secretly entertained, is now avowed and acted upon by the United States. Message of President Davis
The lady who had known the Guer-mantes since 1914 considered another who had been introduced to them in 1916 a parvenue, gave her the nod of a dowager duchess while inspecting her through her lorgnon, and avowed with a significant gesture that no one in society knew whether the lady was even married. Time Regained
But Orly Taitz, an attorney who is the most prominent face of the birther movement, has disavowed the word, writing in a legal motion that is part of a case challenging Obama's authority as commander in chief that birther is "a pejorative appellation" that is "often coupled with even more colorful epithets. NYT > Home Page
The manager disavowed any knowledge of my actions.
They publicly disavowed any connection with terrorist groups.
Their avowed object was to present a petition personally to the Prince Regent, that they might "undeceive" him; as if such a thing were possible, or, being possible, would be of the slightest service. The Revolution in Tanner's Lane
Even though I already made clear why they are racists -- "Federalist Society" and its friends Neo-Confederates and other "sects" of the avowedly Christian KKK -- I'll make it real simple so this time it might not slip by your prejudgement: Balkinization
In the 2005 parliamentary elections, 99 per cent of Kurds voted for nationalist parties with an avowed secessionist agenda.
Lordships, -- that is, his avowed appointment of spies and under-agents, who shall carry on the real state business, while there are public and ostensible agents who are not in the secret. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
The difference in 1760 was one of tone rather than substance, with reluctant and grudging toleration being replaced by unavowed pride in the accessibility of the new regime to the old Tories.
An avowed traditionalist, he is against reform of any kind.
Another name glided into her petition — it was that of the wounded Christian, whom fate had placed in the hands of bloodthirsty men, his avowed enemies. Ivanhoe
Then she avowed in the hands of Master Conrad, which was a good man and her confessor, and promised that if her husband died and she overlived him, that she would keep perpetual continence. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
All of this is with the avowed intent of improving his company's products.
Many became ill and suffered permanent symptoms, but the government disavowed responsibility for them because they were civilians.
We worked with one hotel chain that avowed to the point of dementia its commitment to customer service and comfort.
It is avowedly anti-modernist, employing the language of classical art and architecture to lure his audience in before hitting them with something unexpectedly punchy.
Yet he proved in the end unwill - ing to admit that avowed Christians whose inter - pretations of the Scriptures differed widely from his own should be allowed to propagate their beliefs. LIBERALISM
One is that which John conferred by baptizing, which is called "a baptism of penance," etc., by reason of its inducing men to do penance, and of its being a kind of protestation by which men avowed their purpose of doing penance. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
The party's avowed aim was to struggle against capitalist exploitation.
The mainstream Mormon church has disavowed it.
I am unwont to praise when praise is not merited; and I here most unavowedly express my firm opinion and conviction, that no troops in any battle on record ever behaved more nobly; – British and native, no distinction; cavalry, all vying with H. M.'s 16th Lancers, and striving to head in the repeated charges. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
I have disavowed their reanimation of the unburnt dead many times, many times. Times, Sunday Times
an avowed enemy
The avowed aim of this Government is to reduce taxation.
The board disavowed the action of the executive.
In part, the social power of cadastral maps derived from the "scientific" and purportedly ungendered (because disembodied) quality of their construction, for by concealing their human origins and political objectives in the precisely measured straight lines and quantified areas of their pictorial images, these mappings disavowed the possibility of change or resistance. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
Isn't there also an irony in one so avowedly anti-Establishment revelling in the pronouncement of a bewigged judge?
The Government's avowed intent/purpose/aim is to reduce tax.
The indulgence was a consequence of the context, of the avowed project.
Are people, today, even aware of what dialectics is and how, like with Health insurance folks, its duplicitous underpinnings operate and get people, like Rush fans, to vote against their avowed interests? Think Progress » Limbaugh stands by his Haiti remarks, tells critical caller she’s a ‘bigot’ with ‘tampons in her ears.’
They publicly disavowed any connection with terrorist groups.
Though originally avowed as apolitical, politics keeps intruding in these pages.
To discount such reactions as "phallocentric" condescension to legitimate female interests, as Suzanne Juhasz proposes (418), seems sheer desperation, not the least because some of the complaints issued from avowed Janeites (see Johnson, "Divine" 150). Boxing Emma; or the Readers Dilemma at the Box Hill Games
Convention, presides with a more avowed and certain sway over the realms of fashion; and the Turkish draperies that may float very gracefully on a form like hers, are imitated by rotund sesquipedal Fatimas, who make one regret even the tight lacings and unnatural diminishings of our grandmothers. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part IV., 1795 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
It is a society in which homosexuality is rarely avowed.
Tony Abott's avowed commitment to our horse-and-buggy Constitution will increasingly complicate his bid to been seen as a plausible leader for the 21st century.
This emasculation is reinforced in the staffing of devalued and disavowed reproductive labor activities on the American military base, with poor men of color migrating from South and Southeast Asia making up the vast majority of these workers. David Isenberg: The Feminine Side of Private Military Contractors
Until then he may very well have been trying to decondition his colleagues, which was his avowed intention in returning. The False Mirror
An avowed contrarian, Carr, like Groucho Marx, seems to be suspicious of any group that would claim him.
Their avowed purpose is to wreck the Social Contract and the democratic system under which we live.

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