Sentence examples for avowed reason for from inspiring English sources

Their avowed reason for staying has always been to protect Congo from Rwanda and Uganda.

Its avowed reason for occupying Tahrir — the acquittal last week of Mubarak-era officials accused of involvement in the deadly camel charge on protesters in the square last year — looked like righteous camouflage for suppressing an anti-Morsi demonstration.

"If it was done for the avowed reason to keep Reed satisfied and out of someone else's political camp, it illustrates what everyone in the Republican world has known for years: Enron has been an important source of political power in the party".

That could be part of the reason for the avowed change of mission.

In truth, Coles is not "celibate" in any avowed way, but for pragmatic reasons – a consequence, as he puts it, of "the Church of England's completely ridiculous position [forbidding its clergy to have sex outside heterosexual marriage], which I think is daft and probably wicked, and all but intolerable".

Either way, it was a mistake.The avowed case for compassion has some superficial merit.

Agassi's avowed hatred for his sport is far from exclusive to tennis.

His statement through Arsenal on Monday avowed support for Arsenal's "brilliant" manager, the Frenchman Arsène Wenger.

Mr. Warren was an avowed candidate for the presidential nomination in both 1948 and 1952.

Up to now, it has not been the avowed position of any respectable nation-state that this is a reason for eschewing treaties.

Mr Cameron has long avowed an admiration for Disraeli.