I confess it is a weakness, but I avow it, I do entertain a considerable affection for the countenance and limbs I behold, whenever I look at a glass; and have more mirrors in my house, and consult them oftener than any beauty in Venice.
As a Muslim and a theist, I avow my belief in the unique status of humans; however, as someone who also believes in science and is keenly attuned to the environment, I have a great love for nature and the animal world, and a great desire to protect them.
In analyzing this question, I wish to make the comparison as the scientist or engineer would make it, uninfluenced by the predilections for democracy which I avow … Can democratic institutions hold their own in the present struggle for survival between them and the institutions of authoritarian nations?
Sarkozy: Mr. Ramadan, if it is regressive not to want to stone women, I avow that I am a regressive.
Even I – an avowed sport-avoider – choked up during it.
So when the current President Bush talked of the war on terrorism after Sept. 11, his reversals, according to Mr. Oates, contained phrases like "I am avowed, we will get them" and "Skies, we have seen the limit with terror".
At the time, I was an avowed moderate: I was a Hubert Humphrey Democrat, and I recall supporting something called "the Gavin Plan for phased withdrawal from Vietnam" -- the equivalent, more or less, of John Kerry's pledge to bring the boys home from Baghdad by 2008 or so.
Longtime readers may know that I'm an avowed lover of untouched Android, but I've played around with enough Samsung devices that I've grown accustomed to its many quirks.
And yes, I will avow for the record that the Democrats are much better on lots of issues.
Is it you?" That it was not I, I hastened to avow, even as he wagged an insinuating finger at my nose.
It's not because I'm an avowed Luddite.
