Sentence examples for avowed his from inspiring English sources

Here, after all, was a man who had openly avowed his skepticism of an American creed "that rational, thoughtful people could shape their own destiny" apart from the burdens of history.

Chance led him to rediscover and edit the strikingly intimate diaries of William Gladstone, perhaps Britain's greatest 19th-century prime minister, most marked "Private" and one including a letter, still closed with four successive seals, in which Mr G., famous for rescuing prostitutes, avowed his faithfulness to his wife.He broke the seals; what historian would not?

Tactical brilliance and courage under duress are the least of Vladamir Putin's plethora of extremely laudable attributes...Thank the Lord that Putin has publicly avowed his unswerving dedication to protecting Christianity and Christians (as well as the rest of the Occidental world) from the Maniacal Muslime [sic] Menace.

"There is no beauty that does not consist of struggle," avowed his 11-point proclamation.

Even in avowing his faith he sounded strained.

Mr. Dufficy, another firefighter, sent his mother a text message, avowing his love.

Peter E. Brill, a lawyer for the Detectives' Endowment Association who is representing Detective Johnstone, said that his client "avows his innocence and he will aggressively fight the charges against him".

Earlier in the evening Bennett, who had made love for the first time with his high school dream girl Rose (Carey Mulligan), is avowing his devotion to her when the truck strikes.

Separately, Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the senior Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee and a leading opponent of environmentalists, issued a statement avowing his determination to defeat Mr. Bryson's nomination given his background.

But, of course, it's precisely Hoover's inability to expose or even to avow his private self, his inexpressible self that is the motor of the film — narrative and moral.

He tackled the Catholic issue again, by avowing his belief in the separation of church and state in a televised speech before a group of Protestant ministers in Houston, Texas.