Sentence examples for Avowed by from inspiring English sources

Without this authority the action for the purposes avowed by the statute could not be maintained.' 2 Lindley, Mines, § 748.

A less-noticed consequence of the big squeeze is the slow upending of every principle avowed by every NHS "reformer", from Tony Blair to Andrew Lansley.

Like the Greek profile poses in which dancers periodically pause, this is dance in classical two-dimension – an abstract of the rationality avowed by the philosopher it celebrates.

Sometimes, an incident might make international headlines, outrage is expressed and firm measures are avowed by governments in light of international pressure.

Meanwhile, ad-hoc citizen's brigades, calling themselves Leagues for the Protection of the Revolution — never explicitly avowed by Ennahdha, but widely believed to be at least tacitly encouraged — clashed, sometimes violently, with those that they took to be counterrevolutionary.

Farr said he could neither confirm nor deny the existence of Tempora, although he did acknowledge that Prism exists "because it has been expressly avowed by the executive branch of the US government".

AVOW By Bill C. Davis; directed by Jack Hofsiss; sets by David Jenkins; costumes by Julie Weiss; lighting by Ken Billington; sound by Peter J. Fitzgerald; incidental music, Stephan Hoffman; production stage mamager, Lee J. Kahrs; general management, Soloway/ Levy.

This consensus was re-affirmed by Michael Dummett (1975) and regularly re-avowed by subsequent commentators.

Studying the horror of the world wars turned me into an avowed pacifist by age fifteen.

The "Hold On" video is an avowed attempt by this double-platinum pop-punk band to talk suicidal kids back from the brink.

An avowed socialist by his early twenties, he co-founded an activist organization that fought for the land and language rights of the country's small, disenfranchised population of Irish speakers.