Sentence examples for known profess from inspiring English sources

(Many Lisboetas, as the people of Lisbon are known, profess their city to have seven traditional hills, like Rome).

This prompted Tony Blair's office to retort that the prime minister, at least, still referred to Christ's nativity in his cards, unless the recipient was known to profess another faith.

In her 1994 book "On Looking Into the Abyss," the historian Gertrude Himmelfarb argued that historians have always known "what postmodernism professes to have just discovered" - that any historical work "is necessarily imperfect, tentative and partial".

As well as St Augustine's, the abbots of a number of other monasteries in the diocese of Canterbury are known to have professed obedience to Theobald, as the documents recording the events survive.

In fairness, other foreign writers I know in China profess no agenda beyond an intense curiosity about the place (otherwise, they might have chosen an easier language to study).

Knowing when to profess that love is the first step in the process.

Although some of his assertions are known in detail, the company professes not to know exactly what the government is investigating as the inquiry drags on and expands.

John Kiernan, a Boston-based lawyer known to both DeLia and Gentilucci, professed to know of no cases or laws in which pretexting had been declared illegal.

Lehmann certainly doesn't profess to know.

Crist doesn't really profess to know.

I don't ever profess to know how and why people get together".