"professed values" is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use it to describe the values that a person or organization publicly states they believe in, or have outwardly committed to. Example: The company's professed values of transparency and sustainability are evident in their public messaging.
For many Americans, the workplace has helped narrow the gap between our professed values and our everyday actions.
Putting Tubman on the $20 strikes me as a powerful and necessary realignment of our symbols and our professed values.
Given my background, my politics and my professed values and ideals, there will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation are not enough.
It also denies the professed values of free schools, such as pride, self-respect and respect for others, striving for the best and working hard to achieve a better future.
As an architect of the Iran-contra scandal and of recent plans to spy on Americans, he has demonstrated a commitment to policies that are repugnant to the professed values of our nation.
Data about our actions – when shared in an opt-in, non-Orwellian context – and our professed values would provide organisations with a richer opportunity for connection and relevancy than the clandestine tracking common to marketing today.
This is incompatible with our society's professed value for free speech and conscience.
Certainly, this is not how most people understand the EU's oft-professed values.
Awlaki lost confidence in the west's commitment to its self-professed values and became convinced that the west was bent on destroying Islam.
"Wal-Mart has never been able to square its professed Main Street values -- the greeters at the store doors, the flag-waving patriotism -- with the uncomfortable fact that it's bad news for Main Street wherever it goes," Dan Baum writes in the article.
And how do we form a policy that's consistent with our professed humanitarian values?
