"M.M. doesn't profess to work for everybody.
"Some critics profess to work according to a set of immutable esthetic and technical laws," he wrote in The Times on July 6 , 1980
It bothers me that people profess to work in a sacred manner with fetishes for which they haven't researched the grounded facts.
However, while each group professed to be working on behalf of families, the focus of their practice appeared to be on sustaining what they traditionally perceived as the boundaries and primacy of their service.
Mr. Mercer is alleged to have taken money from a fake company professing to work for the government of Fiji.
Masons may profess to enjoy working outdoors, but that does not ease the burden of lugging 100-pound bags of concrete to a job site or unloading a truckful of concrete blocks on a hot, muggy day.
"The UNFCCC and virtually all national governments profess to be working towards limiting climate change to no more than 2 degrees C.
Putnam's Magazine, October 2, 1868, volume 2, no. 10, pages 505, 506; readers of Darwin's Origin of Species "will remember that the work only professed to be a general statement of theory, which needed a great deal of elaboration and illustration.
In January 1594, Napier addressed to the King a letter that forms the dedication of his Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of Saint John, a work that, while it professed to be of a strictly scholarly character, was calculated to influence contemporary events.
Isn't it strange, Republicans retort, that people like Mr Waxman, who profess to care about working Americans, cheer on bureaucrats determined to smother business and destroy jobs?
It was like running into a former office mate who still works at the job they always professed to hate.
