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Example sentences for: espoused

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He was especially harsh with his former friend Ernest Dowden, who espoused a benevolent Irish cosmopolitanism in opposition to Yeats' literary nationalism.
Papandréou espoused the desires of a post-war generation to maintain peace and stability, and to secure a better future for their children.
I like the theory espoused in the 1960s by the British essayist Clive James.
Indeed, the whole "New Economy" doctrine--a doctrine relentlessly espoused by his magazine for the last few years and vociferously defended in a recent signed essay by Shepard himself--is based on a misunderstanding of the relationship between measurement and reality that is conceptually identical to the garbled thinking of the imaginary editor retrieving his car.
McCain, explaining his decision to stay out, espoused a less sentimental philosophy: "You always want to fight on ground that is most favorable to you."