Sentence examples for professed cause from inspiring English sources

In every modern case, however, the professed cause has been British policy in Ireland.

People sympathetic to Gamergate's professed cause, who consider themselves part of the gaming industry's free thinkers, invulnerable to political or personal influence, surely wouldn't follow so nakedly a self-interested leader.

After the war, like many European writers and intellectuals, he joined the Communist Party in Poland out of devotion to its professed causes.

That he did not resign immediately after being caught engaging in such conduct — and lying about it — shows that his concern is not for his constituents or his professed causes, but for his ego.

Not everyone is so enamored of Mr. Berggruen's professed crusade.

Local loyalist sources said the LVF boss was unimpressed by Combat 18 and its professed solidarity with the Protestant cause.

Loci is supported by a venture-capital guy whose professed interest in the feminist cause also provides cover for his questionable business ethics.

The short answer is that Idi Amin, Uganda's erratic dictator at the time, was a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause and a professed enemy of Israel.

Arendt insisted that Eichmann's professed fidelity to the Nazi cause "did not mean merely to stress the extent to which he was under orders, and ready to obey them; he meant to show what an 'idealist' he had always been".

Let us hope that these are early signs of how the new pope will lead his flock and, by example, cause all self-professed people of faith to re-examine what it means to live a truly Christian life on Earth.

But Penn has long struggled to translate his professed liberal views, and his virtuous causes, into a respectful attitude toward women and people of color generally.