Sentence examples for professed interest from inspiring English sources

Despite professed interest by both the government and Savimbi in resolving the conflict, fighting continued throughout 2001 and into 2002.

Last fall, he contacted Citigroup and professed interest in buying the top floor of 2 Court Square at $395 a square foot.

Similarly, some reckon the Israeli government's professed interest in rebuilding Gaza will wane once foreign attention shifts elsewhere (see our story, "A state of things to come", here).

Why has President Obama put himself in a position from which he cannot deliver on his own professed interest in improving relations with the Islamic Republic?

Distrust of multiculturalism and a professed interest in preserving European "purity" is often called "identitarianism," but many prominent anti-immigrant writers avoid that construction.

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — Contradicting their professed interest in creating jobs, Senate Republicans resolutely refused to put even one American to work this week.

We have published many stories that challenged the policies and professed interests of the government.

You'd think that American hawks invested in the Afghanistan "surge" would not act against their own professed interests.

Despite its self-professed interest in the ordinary, the museum's purpose is not inconsequential.

In 2003, media sources carried reports that O'Sullivan had converted to Islam, but despite his self-professed interest in the faith, these reports were proven to be false.

Potanin was the public face of the scheme, with the political connections to make it happen, and he always appears on the now-canonical list of the era's oligarchs, whereas Prokhorov, who worked behind the scenes and professed little interest in politics but benefited just as much, does not.