Sentence examples for espouse his cause from inspiring English sources

His influence declined after the mid-14th century, perhaps because there was no religious community to espouse his cause.

Many viewed him as a martyr for continuing to espouse his cause, and some thought the king had lost more than he gained by having him executed.

Marguerite Louise was informed of Cosimo III's ensuing illness by her eldest son, Grand Prince Ferdinando, who espoused his mother's cause and corresponded with her.

In the 1950s and early 1960s the radical movement, represented in the Indian cinema by the Godardian work of Ray's fellow Bengali Mrinal Sen, frequently attacked Ray for his lack of obvious polemic and his refusal to openly espouse political causes in his films.

A widower, he married the young daughter of Henry IV of Castile and espoused her cause against Isabella and Ferdinand.

For his general conversation, it was easy, courteous, and obliging to all, to that point that he would befriend his very opponents in their distress, and espouse the cause of those who differed most from him, when they needed his patronage.

Richard described his grandfather as a feminist and appeared proud to continue to espouse the cause himself.

But I am 20 years Kettle's senior and his mistake is to have been born too late to appreciate what really motivated his and David Aaronovitch's parents and so many of their generation to espouse the cause.

"We totally espouse the cause of Proust: refinement, dandyism," Darel told _Libération _at the time.

Encouraged by Zwingli, he began openly to espouse the cause of reform.

"We totally espouse the cause of Proust: refinement, dandyism," Darel told _Libération _at the time.