Sentence examples for professing to spread from inspiring English sources

Our leaders were then professing to spread democracy to Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines with the same blithe self-assurance that our current leaders promise to bring the American way to Iraq and its neighbors.

Call it gunboat diplomacy or a banana war, but this occupation was never meant — as the Americans professed — to spread democracy, especially given that certain democratic freedoms were not even available to the United States' own black citizens at the time.

For a nation that professes to spread freedom and yet continues to deny it to some of its own people.

May this act of hate further strengthen his resolve to spread the message of love that his faith, and all other faiths, profess.

Word began to spread.

To spread my wings.

Panic began to spread.

Many people, and some professions, profess to have this ability.

Even BJP partisans were professing to expect 60.

Mr Buffett professed to be taken aback.

Crist doesn't really profess to know.