Sentence examples for professed ends from inspiring English sources

Even if the latest coup attempt was well-intentioned, it is hard to see how it could have accomplished its professed ends.

His professed goal of becoming prime minister is fanciful.

This will do nothing for the military's professed goal of promoting reconciliation.

The professed goal is to increase voter turnout, but I believe that's a smokescreen.

She was particularly distressed that her arguments with professed Bush supporters often ended when she asked if they were registered to vote and was told no.

In Japan, doubt came to have notable advocates, first with Hayashi Razan, one of the earliest and most consistent advocates of Neo-Confucianism, and later with Kaibara Ekken (1630-1714), thethendnd a professed Neo-Confucian, but one who advanced one of the most systematic expressions of philosophical doubt in the early-modern period.

(2009), a treatment of Christian theology (though Žižek professed atheism); Living in the End Times (2010); and Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism (2012).

His professed ambition is one that invariably ends in tears.

Logan Lucky is an invigorating movie that marks the end of Soderbergh's professed retirement from feature filmmaking.

Mindy Kaling is a self-professed admirer of the romantic comedy, which often ends with the two leads coming together, but her approach has thus far been put a twist on the formula.

Mr Harper's professed willingness to look again at the constitution could end in disaster, as it did for Brian Mulroney, a previous Conservative prime minister in the early 1990s.