Sentence examples for professed as a from inspiring English sources

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

Although there is no direct evidence of his ever being monastic, the nature of Wulfstan's later episcopal career and his affinity with the Benedictine Reform argue that he had once studied and professed as a Benedictine monk, perhaps at Winchester.

"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.

Not merely from the strategic position of a state fearful about its own security, but also in accordance with the values that it claims and professes as a nation.

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.

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.

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.

"Because it's professed as becoming increasingly like the 'real thing,' porn literacy is more important than ever," Marty Klein, author of, His Porn, Her Pain: Confronting America's PornPanic with Honest Talk About Sex, told me.