Sentence examples for what we profess from inspiring English sources

So this extraordinary moment should summon all of us to become what we profess to be: one indivisible nation.

"What we profess is an integrated design approach," said Richard Paradis, director of the Whole Building Design Guide, a program of the National Institute of Building Sciences that is a resource for architects and builders on many topics, including security and sustainability.

"Part of that comes from a belief that we do have to model for our students what we study and what we profess, and it's a little ironic and a little scary when our talk and our walk are so different".

The emerging picture "casts a very serious shadow over the impartiality and fairness of the process for the litigants," said Richard Hesse, interim dean at the Franklin Pierce Law Center here, "and certainly does leave a shadow over what we profess is the central proposition of our legal system, and that is a rule of law, not a rule of men".

It has wisely been said, "Unless we have that within us something which is above us we will succumb to that which is around us". Integrity is all about truly being in private what we profess to be in public.

One of my rabbis would always drill into us "the battle for life is the battle for sanity" -- that theories are all fine and good but until we are able to live them, to put into practice what we profess to hold dear, we are not truly alive.

"In spite of what we all profess to be our goals, there is a lack of willingness, a lack of commitment on the part of the administration to provide the resources".

Allowing the religious beliefs of the accused to sway our legal treatment of them is bigoted, deeply unjust and contrary to what we so often profess are basic American values.

The Story of God, a six-part National Geographic special that launches Sunday at 9 p.m. ET, lets Freeman explore an infinitely expansive subject with which he has long professed fascination: what exists out there beyond what we can tangibly identify through our five senses.

And people's behavior is more in line with what they profess to believe than you might think.

No matter who you are, no matter what you profess to believe, he can't stand you.