Sentence examples for it professed from inspiring English sources

It professed solidarity with its European neighbours and stood up for sound national budgets and a strong common currency.

In short, apart from another lovely performance from Frank Langella, who can rend the heart simply by sitting and eating a bag of potato chips, we are back to the hilarious mismatch that prevailed in the first film, between the liberal piety that it professed toward ordinary working values and its addiction to the spectacle of Gekko in full, near-fascistic flight.

Zealot, member of a Jewish sect noted for its uncompromising opposition to pagan Rome and the polytheism it professed.

It professed to have collected the slang of 1915.

"Tuplet" was exactly what it professed to be: a dance about rhythm.

The US had lurched into aping precisely the totalitarian regimes it professed to guard against.

The three characters who want to end it all may have met online, but once the play has brought them together in the flesh it largely abandons its professed theme in favour of a clumsy, tiresome attempt to merge melancholy and madcap comedy.

Even if the latest coup attempt was well-intentioned, it is hard to see how it could have accomplished its professed ends.

Mr London and his colleagues were attracted to Google both by its spectacular growth and by its professed desire not to become evil as it got bigger.

It's a Bohème far less radical than its professed intentions, but perhaps the better – and more affecting – for that.

But its professed concern for justice would carry more weight if it did not have such a direct financial interest in the outcome.