Sentence examples similar to avows to know from inspiring English sources

As the first African-American President of the United States, and an avowed admirer of Nelson Mandela since his youth, Obama has to know of the historic role played by Cuba in the anti-apartheid struggle.

"If people don't avow their homosexuality, there is not a way for us to know.

More significant in current circumstances is the monarchy's continual covert influence on government, from the Queen's weekly audiences with the prime minister and Prince Charles's avowed "meddling" to lesser known arm's-length interventions.

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

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

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

Mr. Farage is an avowed anti-European known for extreme views.

Hard stuff that presidents usually keep hidden With George Bush, an avowed teetotaller, you knew where you were: for all the gossip about his occasional lapses, it was orange juice or alcohol-free beer.

The executive will never be compelled to avow, or to support any opinions.

Scattered around the party were unassuming white packages with pink labels, all avowing their absence of known carcinogens, hormone disrupters and other current beauty-industry boogeymen.

A website maintained by James Von Brunn, an avowed racist and anti-Semite well known to the netherworld of white supremacy -- and the assassin who killed a security guard at the Holocaust Museum in June of 2009 -- said that Brunn tried to carry out a "citizen's arrest" in 1981 on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, whom he accused of "treason".