Sentence examples for professed to being from inspiring English sources

While most professed to being appalled by the impact of selection on children, parent choice and overall standards, some were more appalled than others and that response didn't fall neatly across party lines.

Redknapp has made no secret of the fact that he considered this competition to be far less significant than the Champions League but still professed to being dismayed that the result in the group's other game — between Paok Salonika and Rubin Kazan — meant that those two teams qualified at Spurs' expense.

Horovitz professed to being a fan of that particular style.

"We've never professed to being perfect," Chris Arnold, Chipotle's communications director, told me.

But Hill professed to being confused by the conflict going on around him.

This may have been the shock of the third round but Westley professed to being unsurprised.

Yet the death squads, the military, and the wealthy financiers of his killing all professed to be followers of Christ.

Despite the CIA's professed desire to be more open about the role it plays in Holly-wood, it's hard to take its newfound transparency too seriously.

Kya typifies Atari's professed goal to be the brand not just for the hard-core gamer but for the whole family, to offer something for everyone, which leads naturally to the question, who really plays all these games?

In fact, many experts say Beijing is simply reinforcing a growing perception in diplomatic circles that it is willing to throw its weight around in ways that undermine its professed desire to be viewed as a new kind of peaceful, harmonious rising power.

But whereas Dean wasn't often attacked from the left during the 2004 race (save over his professed desire to be the candidate of "guys with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks"), Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are all happy to exploit Perry's ideological deviations, which left the Texas governor taking fire from the center and the right alike last night.