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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.
Faced with the charge that she's "lowbrow," Brown has espoused a "high-low" formula under which Talk will endeavor, according to one staffer, "to balance the higher-brow stuff and the trashier stuff."
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."
I like the theory espoused in the 1960s by the British essayist Clive James.
There are many similarities between the position espoused by Ross McKinney and my position.