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Gore campaign officials profess confidence.

Next, I would have to adopt a wholly contradictory and delusional approach to authority: profess to love and follow the kind which would never punish me in real time should I violate any of its sacred precepts -- which I will.

While the Pakistani government was one of the only supporters of the Taliban government when it was in power from 1996 to 2001, today the Pakistani authorities profess not to know the whereabouts of Mullah Omar or his colleagues.

"Instead of shrugging their shoulders and professing to have no authority in the matter, city officials should look for ways to protect the peninsula from potential erosion of its quality of life," said the newspaper.

Huge numbers of Indian and Pakistani soldiers remain in Kashmir today as both countries profess to be the rightful authority for the rest of Kashmir.

Unlike most books about horse racing, "Horse Sense," written in collaboration with Cornell Richardson, a longtime friend and racing authority, does not profess to help bettors pick winners.

Manning, of course, professes great confidence.

This religious significance became of practical importance only in the 18th century when the Oirat, who professed Tibetan Buddhism, threatened the authority of the Qing dynasty throughout Mongolia.

By the mid-1980s Mary Warnock professed herself to be an authority on "the Whitehall lunch" — as well as just about everything else.

Most of the titles were derived from persons professing to act under the authority of the government existing at the time; and the two grants under which the plaintiffs claim are supposed, by the person under whose inspection the collection was made, to be void because forbidden by the royal proclamation of 1763.

It applies to members of regular armed forces who "profess allegiance to a government or authority not recognised by the detaining power" (which covers the Taliban soldiers) and also members of militia or volunteer corps forming part of those forces.

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