espouse

Object

• ideology: For man to espouse a certain ideology according to his faith is a matter belonging to an elementary human right.
• doctrine: He is the first Conservative leader to espouse a doctrine which the Church of England finds entirely repulsive.
• virtue: It is one thing to say you are virtuous when you are not and quite another to espouse a virtue you fail to meet.
• nationalism: The party has existed since 1925 and in its early period espoused a romantic bourgeois nationalism, looking back to a mythologised feudal past.
• notion: Yet not a single economist has espoused this notion of pluralistic price publicly.

Subject

• story: It is espoused by long term success stories such as TNT, and more modern ones such as Metro and Innocent.
• government: The option of exiting the world market that the dependency theorists advocated has almost never been espoused by governments.

Modifying Another Word

• openly: In this form of criticism, a theological reading of the Bible is openly espoused.
• warmly: Like his cousin, the Town Clerk, he warmly espoused the side of the Covenanters.
• publicly: Thus her tacit view of accounting does not always coincide with the publicly espoused view of accounting promoted by course materials or by her.
• often: Despite being a dyed-in-the-wool Mini adherent, Ian has never adopted the blinkered views so often espoused by dedicated car enthusiasts.
• still: Both major parties have now abandoned these principles; only the BNP still espouses all of them.
• now: This is the model now espoused more or less openly by the Tories.

Used with why or when

• what: In your posts Godfrey you ' always ' espouse what others should and should not do, and what opinions they should hold.
• when: Is it because they don't have an authentic experience of the truths that they espouse when they preach?

Preposition: in

book: Learn how Presidents Reagan, Johnson, Kennedy, and many others used the lessons espoused in this book to get to the top.

Preposition: by

• story: It is espoused by long term success stories such as TNT, and more modern ones such as Metro and Innocent.
• writer: This is the point of view tentatively espoused by the present writer, but admittedly without full understanding.
• government: The option of exiting the world market that the dependency theorists advocated has almost never been espoused by governments.