The book's avowed storytelling template comes from the stage, or stagelike radio programs, such as "This American Life".
Since coming to power, Zuma has consistently countered expectations: he has defended his personal promiscuity while becoming an avowed AIDS activist; he is a populist who has maintained free-market economic policies and alienated the poor; he is a powerful leader in a dominant party who has a hard time taking action.
The industrialists are also avowed libertarians, although they kept their politics on the backburner until fairly recently, inching into the spotlight during the 2010 midterm elections and coming out publicly for Mitt Romney in 2012.
Though we would have preferred learning more about the company's inner workings — and its challenges — Sharkey's marketing approach, her avowed belief that sales come from "understanding people, first and foremost" and her emphasis on "connecting people around their affinities and passions," may well be a strategy that pays.
Though we would have preferred learning more about the company's inner workings — and its challenges — Sharkey's marketing approach, her avowed belief that sales come from "understanding people, first and foremost" and her emphasis on "connecting people around their affinities and passions," may well be a strategy that pays.
Though he justified the detentions by reference to the lingering communist threat and Indonesia's avowed opposition to Malaysia, they came to symbolise Lee's authoritarian tendencies.
And even Gamel, an avowed Eveillard fan, admits that Pillar came close to yanking the rest of its money out after last year's sharp decline.
Though Rep. Huffman made his statement from the comparative safety of left-leaning California, I applaud him for his bravery, as no measurable good can come from a politician avowing anything other than a Judeo-Christian belief set in America.
My husband — an avowed "non-beach guy" — and I had come to love this village of farmers and fishermen for its rawness, its drowsy authenticity.
And in avowing its belief in love, the movie comes up with an amusing senior counterpart to Kevin in his ad agency colleague Nathan Jerry Stillerr).
Access to the bulk of the archive will be restricted, but Steadman Upham, the president of the University of Tulsa — and an avowed Dylan fan — acknowledged that when it comes to experts in this material, the standard academic credentials need not apply.
