We avowed we would protect democracy there but the Communists (with some Chinese assistance) drove us out of North Korea, and we ended up supporting a right-wing dictatorship in South Korea, which required maintaining American troops there for 35 years now, with no end in sight.
"We all avow we speak for oppressed voices of class, race, gender, nationality; we don't 'interpret,' we 'intervene,' we don't 'analyze,' we 'interrogate.'..
Before we were avowed as a service, that was the only way of recruiting people, a tap on the shoulder.
Were we all to avow a philosophy of openness and churn our experiences into hard numbers, we could presumably improve our odds in all sorts of decisions.
As early as 1927, Hitler had avowed, We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions.
It is non-cognitive, because it is essentially a motivational tendency to act or feel in ways that we are prepared to avow in discussion about what to do.
So when the current President Bush talked of the war on terrorism after Sept. 11, his reversals, according to Mr. Oates, contained phrases like "I am avowed, we will get them" and "Skies, we have seen the limit with terror".
Hence, we briefly had avowed sceptic and hater of windfarms, John Hayes, as energy minister.
We believe an avowed homosexual is not a role model for the values espoused in the Scout oath and law".
The statement posted on the Boy Scouts Webb site after their court victory was a model of tactful restraint: "We believe an avowed homosexual is not a role model for the values espoused in the Scout Oath and Law.
The president's comment came the same day that G.M.'s chief executive, Edward E. Whitacre Jr., avowed, "We don't want to be known as Government Motors," and told an industry conference, "If you liked our first-quarter financial results, stay tuned for our second-quarter financial results".
