Sentence examples for only avowed from inspiring English sources

Only avowed vegetarians are entitled to deplore well-prepared infant lamb for reasons of conscience, but their complaint, though perhaps exemplary, will not spare the life of a single creature at Easter.

Ironically, GCHQ and its intelligence-gathering role was only "avowed" - officially confirmed to exist - after Geoffrey Prime, one of its former officers, was convicted in 1982 of spying for the Soviet Union.

Some capabilities were only avowed in parliament in recent years, following the 2013 Snowden disclosures — and deemed by the U.K. intelligence agencies' own oversight court to have been illegally operated as a result.

Now California's longest-serving member, he's also Congress' only avowed atheist.

in 2011, who at the time was the only avowed atheist in Congress.

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The near-ouster in April of Hugo Chávez, the leftist president of Venezuela, showed Mr. Castro the weakness of his only other avowed supporter in the hemisphere.

The next year, CJTF-HOA took up residence at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, where it resides to this day on the only officially avowed U.S. base in Africa.

They couldn't see how Niven would have been capable, for example, of getting down on his knees to pray, as Munn (who had been a Mormon elder at the time) claimed, not only because of his avowed atheism, but also because of his advanced illness.

The only films banned for racial reasons (though not usually openly avowed) were pictures of famous black boxer Jack Johnson defeating his "white hope" opponent, Jim Jeffries, in Reno in 1910.

Americans have welcomed racist demagogues before, but an avowed socialist?