Sentence examples for profess for from inspiring English sources

There's something unconvincing about the loathing we profess for it.

The answer, according to Adem Sozuer, dean of law at Istanbul University, is love — the love the perpetrators profess for their victims.

The view from Tate Modern towards St Paul's is of a group of buildings so mediocre as to be incompatible with the admiration we profess for Christopher Wren.

We create andosustain'these fictions about ourselves, in varying degrees, out of psychological necessity.

Nor did the snub of not accepting a special mention in the Virtual Island competition take its toll on the respect many of us profess for her writing.

But it is even more rarely the case within the political right in Washington these days, as lobbyists and other moneyed interests have taken over the conservative movement and have refused to draw a line between their own personal enrichment and the policies they profess for the rest of us.

Thus the Deists, professing for the most part to be religious men themselves, did much to reconcile their public to the free play of ideas in religion.

Lincoln shared the sympathies that the Jacksonians professed for the common man, but he disagreed with the Jacksonian view that the government should be divorced from economic enterprise.

Large majorities profess support for fundamental change.

Most senators profess support for a bill to ban insider trading by members of Congress.

Mr Hastert's district is a place where even Democrats profess affection for Mr Bush.