Thereafter (except in the winter of 1779, which was spent at Morristown) Washington made his headquarters at West Point on the Hudson, and Clinton avowed himself too weak to attack him there.
In his childhood, he pretended to be Anglo more often than he avowed himself as Mexican; now, in playing the hyper-masculine role demanded of him by his clients, he denied his homosexuality more often than he celebrated it.
But Neruda was a close ally of deposed socialist President Salvador Allende, not to mention an avowed communist himself, so the new regime regarded the poet as an enemy of the state.
An avowed follower, Hockney himself may well be heading south to take in a brace of Turner shows.
Mr. Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president and an avowed environmentalist, suddenly found himself at odds with an important part of his political base, defending a Brazilian project that could increase deforestation.
Greg Orman, a wealthy 45-year-old entrepreneur and avowed centrist (he calls himself fiscally conservative but socially tolerant), is challenging the state's senior senator, Pat Roberts, a Republican who has tacked hard right in recent years.
That may sound as contradictory as Mr. Richardson himself -- an avowed environmentalist with an ungreen hankering for big, powerful cars -- but, in fact, he is spending more than $10,000 to convert the Yukon to run on compressed natural gas, a domestically produced fuel that is less polluting than gasoline.
The man himself Tiger Woods, an avowed sports TV nut as it is, has little choice but to watch the Open in his Orlando home as he revealed last week that, following his knee reconstruction, he can only make it from bed to couch and back again.
Comic book writer Alan Moore has endorsed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader and has urged voters to "put all of your mind and all of your muscle" into supporting the embattled Labour leader – although he himself is an avowed anarchist who doesn't vote.
The accused murderer, Dylann Roof, was an avowed racist who had photographed himself with the Confederate flag; after the murders, South Carolina removed it from the capitol grounds, and mainstream retailers like Walmart and Amazon stopped selling merchandise that featured the design.
By contrast, in the Persian summa, Philosophy for ʿAlāʼ al-Dawla (Dānišnāmah-yi ʿAlāʼī), and possibly also in the incompletely extant Eastern Philosophy (Al-Ḥikma al-mašriqiyya), the order is reversed and, as Avicenna himself avows, much more original: metaphysics constitutes the beginning, rather than the end, of theoretical philosophy.
