Sentence examples for professed- from inspiring English sources

As a result, one high-profile figure interviewed on background said the 2011 uprising had led to a crisis of Egyptian liberalism rather than the expected triumph of progressive politics, after professed liberals either turned away from consensual values themselves or failed to win support for them at the ballot box.

Cameron is no Thatcher, indeed the worrying thing is his professed admiration for Blair.

It is to be hoped that David Cameron, a professed admirer of Harold Macmillan and Ian Gilmour, goes back into history.

Lenore Taylor: Guardian Australia The future of the party now hinges on whether voters still like Rudd when he is leader again, or whether their professed preference for him was really a hankering for the way they felt when they elected him as "Kevin07", and politics still felt hopeful and positive – in contrast to the down and dirty shouting match it has been for the past three years.

He can't help it; he has a compulsive nature – one that, like his professed "crippling self-consciousness", seems to be at odds with the insouciance and languor of his public persona.

Which at least confirms that his professed interest in "history" is in fact a solipsistic, quasi-religious form of futurology as opposed to any attempt to evaluate recent events.

For Roach, acting with self-professed stubbornness, the bike was just another challenge to be overcome.

Germany, Europe's self-professed leader in the fight against climate change, did nothing to stop the collapse of the European carbon-trading system (the EU's main collective tool for reducing carbon emissions).

And that will cause anger and revolt among both Ouattara and Gbagbo supporters.In one of Côte d'Ivoire's independent newspapers yesterday, Vincent Tohbi Irié, a respected former Ivorian ambassador to Paris and a self-professed supporter of Mr Ouattara, warned the internationally accepted winner of November's presidential elections, that his backers' patience was "not limitless".

Parents receive about $10 a month for their daughters' ten-hour days.The work continues long after the ministers, self-professed socialists, have pulled away in their limos.Thanks to its children, Morocco produces about 750,000 square metres of carpet a year.

And in one of the more spineless moments of his presidency George Bush, a self-professed free-trader, signed it.