Sentence examples for professed for from inspiring English sources

Lincoln shared the sympathies that the Jacksonians professed for the common man, but he disagreed with the Jacksonian view that the government should be divorced from economic enterprise.

Legend has it that the real inspiration for the urban castle was a beautiful Franciscan nun, who asked the duke to build her the grandest house in the city as a sign of the love he secretly professed for her.

There's something unconvincing about the loathing we profess for it.

Thus the Deists, professing for the most part to be religious men themselves, did much to reconcile their public to the free play of ideas in religion.

The view from Tate Modern towards St Paul's is of a group of buildings so mediocre as to be incompatible with the admiration we profess for Christopher Wren.

Nor did the snub of not accepting a special mention in the Virtual Island competition take its toll on the respect many of us profess for her writing.

For his part, Trump professed distaste for "gotcha questions".

President Trump has called immigrants "criminals" and touted plans for mass deportations, but he has professed compassion for Dreamers.

He did his daily rosary, but professed admiration for Hitler.

Several, in the dock, professed admiration for his freedom poems.

Wilson professed admiration for his rivals from another era.