Sentence examples for avowed to make from inspiring English sources

The question is whether the company avowed to "make money by doing good things" can finesse Big Dog and its brethren sufficiently to assist an old person out shopping or run to a stricken hiker's aid, rather than launching bits of masonry like a siege engine.

What do you aspire and avow to do or be in 2009 "even though"?

His invocation of Lincoln and Washington, and his avowed determination to make hard choices, suggest the former.

Chelsea now could afford to do something that is alien to Villas-Boas's avowed intent to make this a more fluid, attacking Chelsea.

Lord Ashdown's comments, in an interview with the Guardian, contrast with his successor's avowed intention to make the Lib Dems the "effective opposition" to Labour.

·1974 The Family Following Terry and Margaret Wilkins, their children and partners in a small flat in Reading, Paul Watson's avowed intention was to "make a film about the kind of people who never got on to television".

Have you ever met anybody who avowed to be a public intellectual?

It was avowed to be a progressive movement, a product of progressive thought and an instrument for progressive action" ([ 16]: 89).

"A TOKEN sprinkling of women," is how Luciana Berger, a member of parliament for the opposition Labour Party, dismissed the recent British cabinet reshuffle, the avowed aim of which was to make the government less male.

The beetroot borani (an Iranian yoghurt-based dip, with feta, walnuts and dill) could convert even the most avowed beetroot-hater, and it's a doddle to make.

Several said it flew in the face of the Bush administration's avowed interest in upholding the rights of states to make their own decisions on most policy matters.