Sentence examples for professed as from inspiring English sources

Sister Mary was professed as a Sister of Mercy in 1958 and taught at various schools in Brooklyn.

That's why you'll find that most countries harbor some form of irredentist frustration, if not professed as government policy, then whispered on the fringes of the political spectrum.

I was at a John McDonnell rally in Newcastle last weekend, and the word "democracy" kept being professed as the crowds cheered.

Dogma (Latin decretum, Greek dogma) has come to have a more specific reference to the distillate of doctrines: those first (basic or axiomatic) principles at the heart of doctrinal reflection, professed as essential by all the faithful.

Or he could try to explain what appeared to many to be the contradiction between Mr. Wright's world view and the one Mr. Obama had professed as his own.

They are professed as being generally safe and may have efficacy as chemopreventive agents by preventing or reversing premalignant lesions and/or reducing second primary tumor incidence.

"If I could put wheels on my house, maybe I'd leave," said Mr. Paul, who professes as much love for the Manhattan stage as for his suburban oasis.

It's a disgrace to leave it at that and not put that privilege to good use — even more so when one professes as much knowledge and enlightenment as Whitey does.

Moreover, mothers of the English-Japanese bilinguals in England professed at least as strong Japanese cultural identity preferences as mothers of the Japanese monolinguals in Kyoto.

"We profess as Catholics that the invitation to the priesthood comes from God, and it seems to me that we are tampering with the sacred".

It's deism, the faith most closely associated with the Enlightenment, which professes, as Critchley puts it, that "there's a God, but a God that doesn't do party tricks".