espoused in English

verb
1
adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life).
he turned his back on the modernism he had espoused in his youth
2
marry.
Edward had espoused the Lady Grey

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "espoused" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "espoused", or refer to the context using the word "espoused" in the English Dictionary.

1. The ideas she espoused were incomprehensible to me.

2. He espoused them both, simultaneously, in a kind of philosophical bigamy.

3. Saro-Wiwa, who espoused nonviolence, did not lack for enemies.

4. This was the credo that Church himself espoused as a landscape artist.

5. They espoused the notion of equal opportunity for all in education.

6. He espoused moderation and self-denial, leading a simple, frugal life.

7. 6 It has been rhetorically espoused by politicians and sceptically analysed by academics.

8. 11 Irenaeus strived to obliterate Gnostic ideas and the writings that espoused them.

9. She ran away with him to Mexico and espoused the revolutionary cause.

10. We espoused peaceful co-existence and the higher cause of humanity beyond racial divisions.

11. The Analects present the detailed code of morality, behavior, and belief espoused by Confucius

12. The latter's stated aim was to "revive" the "principles" espoused by Walter Lini.

13. As Captain America, John Walker espoused a crueler, pragmatic, and more nationalist attitude

14. Synonyms for Affianced include betrothed, promised, engaged, plighted, bespoke, bespoken, espoused, pledged, bound and contracted

15. Synonyms for Betrothed include engaged, affianced, promised, pledged, bespoke, bespoken, bound, contracted, plighted and espoused

16. Until recently, Dole was openly contemptuous of the supply side economics espoused by Kemp and other conservatives.

17. Until recently Dole was openly Contemptuous of the supply side economics espoused by Kemp and other conservatives: 22

18. The causes she has espoused include lowering infant mortality and the provision of legal assistance to the poor.

19. The allegation is dangerous and insulting to Morrissey, especially when you consider that he has never publicly espoused racist views.

20. Second, the Southern Agrarians espoused ideas that were generally widespread among Southerners, embedded in Southern culture, and reflective of Southern attitudes

21. 17 Hence, they failed to recognize the inconsistency between their espoused motivations for management and how they derived satisfaction from work.

22. On the other hand Tsongas, another centrist sceptical of big government, espoused an industrial policy which distanced him from Clinton.

23. 17 Far into the next century, Du Bois lost support of many black church people when he espoused the creed of Marxism.

24. “Those who had turned against one another in this gory fashion,” writes former Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu, “espoused the same faith.

25. Several UMNO leaders seriously discussed the possibility of governing alone; one, Abdullah Ahmad, publicly espoused permanent Malay supremacy and relegating non-Malays to second-class citizenship.

26. The next would geometry..” -Rhuben Neal (Barbitone) The Ancients understood and implemented the axiom of ‘All is Number’ for which Plato later espoused thousands of years later

27. The rat is labeled "Bolsheviki (I.W.W.)," i.e., the International Workers of the World, the Communist-inspired labor union that espoused the destruction of capitalism

28. It was to Anaesthetise the Labour party while he turned it into a vehicle to make him electable and his newly espoused Thatcherism irreversible, much as Attlee had made welfarism irreversible in 1945

29. In this page you can discover 49 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for adopted, like: assumed, acquired, dramatized, native, Acculturized, borrowed, espoused, followed, embraced, taken and fathered

30. Through their pledge to follow Christ more closely, virgins are Consecrated to God, mystically espoused to Christ and dedicated to the service of the Church, when the diocesan Bishop consecrates them according to …

31. Through their pledge to follow Christ more closely, virgins are consecrated to God, mystically espoused to Christ and dedicated to the service of the Church, when the diocesan Bishop Consecrates them according to …

32. Later Japanese Buddhists, such as the Japanese Yogacara monk Jōkei, espoused aspiring rebirth on Mount Potalaka as an easier way to attain progress on the Buddhist path than the more well-known pure land of Amitābha.

33. One side of the debate, typically espoused by publishers, views Aggregators as substitutes for traditional news consumption because Aggregators’ landing pages provide snippets of news stories and therefore reduce the incentive to click on the …

34. ‘Another aspect of their Africanism is intellectual, a conscious stance that systematically questions the Western perspective on reality.’ ‘He is considered one of the founding fathers of Africanism, a philosophy that espoused an almost militant pride in blackness.’

35. The seventeenth century was very much the age of what Milton had termed disparagingly 'Aphorismers and Politicasters'. Jones's essay examines the character of Lipsius's advice, the genre in which it was presented, and what it entailed for the politics of prudence he espoused.

36. Even at this late date the remnant of the ‘discreet virgin’ class does not know the day or hour when “the door” will be shut to further opportunity for admittance into the heavenly Kingdom to be with the Bridegroom to whom they are espoused.

37. Penn & Teller: Bullshit! was hosted by professional magicians and skeptics Penn & Teller.Its format consisted of debating political topics, usually from a naturalist libertarian capitalist point of view (the political philosophy espoused by both Penn and Teller) or aiming to debunk pseudoscientific ideas, paranormal beliefs, popular fads and misconceptions.

38. Alcaeus of MYTILENE ( *)Alkai=os), of MYTILENE, in the island of Lesbos, the earliest of the Aeolian lyric poets, began to flourish in the 42nd Olympiad when a contest had commenced between the nobles and the people in his native state.Alcaeus belonged by birth to the former party, and warmly espoused their cause