Sentence examples for professed to run from inspiring English sources

If the Pakistani Taliban, aided by clever lawyers, organized a closely held American corporation, and professed to run it on religious principles, might its employees be deprived of insurance coverage to inoculate their children against polio?

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The company's stock is owned by members of the Green family, who profess to run their business empire according to Christian precepts.

He said he had watched some bar regulars, who profess to love jazz, run up bar tabs of $60 to $70, without so much as a peek into the Zebra Room.

The lead drummer professed to be an actual witch doctor.

Marxist critics did not give much thought to how the economy would be run after capitalism had been abolished; most of them professed to see no difficulty in organizing the society that would follow.

It was like running into a former office mate who still works at the job they always professed to hate.

Morrison's superlative run of driving R&B singles in the early 1970s – Come Running, Domino, Blue Money, Wild Night – turned him into a US pop star, a development he professed to loathe, naturally.

Mr Buffett professed to be taken aback.

He professed to be amused.

He professed to be taken aback.