Maybe by professing my appetite for such a charmingly obscure course of study, I could win over the admissions officers.
Mr McGuinty won over many of these voters by professing a deep concern about the state of urban services.
A scientific statesman, if there were such a person, would try to defuse the situation by professing respect for all religions and making a grand yet also trivial concession about the status of evolution.
Most of the offspring candidates deny having such a motivation, professing a genuine belief and interest in public service.
Socrates professes the greatest veneration for such a master: "If I believe that someone is capable of discerning a single thing that is also by nature capable of encompassing many, I follow 'straight behind, in his tracks, as if he were a god'".
Thus, for example, the capacity to adopt the type of objective viewpoint demanded by Kantian morality (discussed in the final section of Spirit)—the capacity to see things, as it were, from a detached or universal point of view might be enabled by engaging with spirit's "alienations" such as the myths and rituals of a religion professing a universal scope.
Although that move was opposed by Russia, it professed not to be too worried, especially as such a system would not eliminate Russia's own nuclear deterrent.
Hanks, who said he goes to church, professed admiration for CERN: "I think CERN is such a beautiful place, they're turning over the mysteries".
When Richard Hodges became director of the Penn Museum in October 2007, he professed a belief that such tenures should be limited.
In fact, I would dare presidential candidates professing a distaste for socialized medicine to call openly for abolition of the V.A. health system in favor of a purely privatized system – e.g., a defined contribution system such as that advocated for Medicare by Representative Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin and chairman of the House Budget Committee.
Until this week, you'd be forgiven for professing your ignorance of Coles' rather obscure, bass-driven alter-ego in such a manner.
