He does not hesitate to avow that much of what he is and does, "even my way of being an atheist," bears the imprint of the Roman Catholicism to which he adhered through adolescence.
"No one who lives in the city would avow that problems don't exist, but cockroaches are not among them," said Luigi Savastan, a newspaper vendor on the Via Chiaia, citing the city's high unemployment figures that serve to swell the ranks of Naples's notorious organized crime families.
Here's an analogy: Would it be fair to install the same number of bathroom facilities for men and women in public areas, when all of us can avow that most of the time the women's bathroom has the longer line?
Both avowed that Wellington was by far the most avant-garde city in all of New Zealand, and to prove it, they decided to find us the kind of cool bar that could be found only here.
(She avows that history has taught nothing to Germany's leaders if they think it possible to kill ideas).
(She avows that history has taught nothing to Germany's leaders if they think it possible to kill ideas). Vanderbilt photographed the graves of Hitler's parents, and discovered that Hitler was considerably unpopular in Leonidad, his Austrian home town.
In a long and brilliant study of Middlemarch – which persuaded me to change my mind about a novel I've always considered tiresome – she avows that "love enables knowledge, love is a kind of knowledge".
In public, both sides avow that the campaign is about substantive issues, and that religion and race will not determine who wins.
Both countries publicly avow that they do not want the bad feelings to spiral out of control.
As the dollar has declined 9percentt since November against other major currencies — a reversal of its run-up during the financial crisis — policymakers in both parties have continued to avow that a mighty dollar stands for a mighty nation.
Activists avow that the party's communications are getting slicker.
