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Example sentences for: espousal

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Some may see a latent liberalism (in today's sense) in USA Today 's editorial line: its espousal of gun control or publicly financed elections (to name to editorial positions taken by the paper in recent weeks).
First, it subsumes an apparently radical idea, gay rights, under a patriotic tradition: the espousal and gradual extension of equal rights.
Pat Robertson's espousal of Tucker's cause, the Independent said, "Let us hope that more and more Americans will come to realise that, if it is wrong to execute her because she is a God-fearing woman, then it is wrong to execute anybody."