Sentence examples for professed it from inspiring English sources

He is too polite to say it, but one of the weaknesses of otherwise useful atheists like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris is that, lacking nostalgia for lost belief, they also lack the power to imagine why anyone would ever have professed it.

Richards, asked that question, professed it a "comparatively easy" managerial task: and probably all the easier now Patricia Hodgson, once BBC director of policy and planning as well as chief executive of the Independent Television Commission, sits as chair of Ofcom.

As each panelist professed, it is this transparency that is missing from so many media organizations as it's deeply misunderstood and underestimated.

In the Council of Nicaea, one specific creed was used to define the Church's faith clearly, to include those who professed it, and to exclude those who did not.

Although not included in the Test squads to face either New Zealand or South Africa, White was named in the ODI and Twenty20 squads to face South Africa at home, and professed "it was a good feeling to know you are still in the mix".

For instance, ruling elites might view an unconventional religion as fundamentally erroneous and its doctrines as utterly misguided while nonetheless endorsing the rights of its adherents to profess it free of legal penalties.

Gary Carter was also a Christian who lived his faith, but did not openly profess it.

"And I don't feel the need to profess it," Steven said about his homosexuality.

Religion doesn't have to be true, Tocqueville thought, but it is very important that people profess it.

Naturally, Kim Kardashian West also piped up, professing it was one of her "fave" pictures of her husband.

Such divisive moves are probably music to Moscow's ears; they are certainly a worrying sign in a country that professes it wishes to join Europe.