Though candidates are not affiliated with political parties, they can profess their political colours.
By reminding everyone of a real military agreement, you can profess innocence while having military "exercises" overstepping their bounds.
Indeed, few places can profess such longstanding support for the United States as Colombia, which sent battalions to fight alongside American troops in the Korean War.
Outsider art people can profess to want to exist in the nexis of contemporary art, but the value wouldn't hold up.
On the Internet, where anyone can profess to be an expert, rumor sites can make all these theories seem plausible, particularly to a new generation that has not been educated properly about the risks of H.I.V.
It's not a thing I can profess to understand beyond a basic respect for their guts and their kind of crazy hope that the future will be weird.
It's usually helpful to visit the departmental websites and learn about faculty research interests, so you can profess to have a passionate interest in working on that particular topic.
Once in situ, you can profess incredulity at the charges and try to negotiate a discount, a strategy that may work better in the US than in Britain or Europe.
"You can profess to believe in meritocracy and high social mobility, but when it actually comes to the crunch, it's very difficult to deliver policies that the middle-class electorate is going to like.
Massachusetts officials can profess to be shocked at what has happened; Governor Mitt Romney has formed a special panel to investigate the death of Mr. Geoghan, while prison officials have pledged to "get to the bottom of this".
It turns out that productivity and wages are directly linked, as professional economists can profess.
