The likes of Drew Barrymore and Vin Diesel regularly take up the twenty-sided die (or at least profess to do so).
It is, of course, a fact that one needs to love professional sports, or profess to do so, if one wishes to be elected to higher office in America, whether or not this requirement makes any sense.
And, though they used the Lord Reith's mission statement for the BBC as their album title, Willgoose says they don't profess to do a great deal of informing or educating.
After all, it contrasts so starkly with the meritocracies we claim to work in and the good we profess to do in the world.
The Social Science Research Council says, for example, that Mr. Richards came from an employee agency that professed to do background checks.
Or candy-bar pie for breakfast, as Ms. Tosi, Milk Bar's pastry chef, professes to do.
The thing I found particularly interesting was the way it genuinely allows you as an audience member to prod at the scenario and give it a good shake, something which interactive theatre often professes to do but seldom does in practice.
One thing to note is that Apple professes to do all this without sending your data away – unless you use Siri to ask for something – where as Google Now and Microsoft's Cortana are powered through the cloud, tracking your movements and all the data privacy implications that may or may not have.
Basically, to Broder, what Obama is professing to do - a mixture of policy initiatives, solution forging, and priority setting that I'll loosely bundle together under the catch-all title, "Stuff That The People Who Elected Obama Wanted Him To Do In Exchange For Electing Him" - is a terrible gamble.
All of these voluntary advisers, naturally, profess to be doing me a favor, upgrading the establishment while gently upbraiding the owner.
Europe professes to be doing the same but more slowly, prompting concerns in America that business will flow to big European banks.
