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Synonyms for espouse

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Synonyms for espouse

to join or be joined in marriage

to take, as another's idea, and make one's own

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Synonyms for espouse

take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own

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Mangaluru (Karnataka) [India], Aug 16 (ANI): With an aim to spread the message of peace, non-violence and communal harmony espoused by Mahatma Gandhi, devotees offer prayers to his statue at a temple in Mangaluru's Garodi area.
Corpus emphasized the core concept of FORM POLICE is values formation and reorientation that are espoused in the Police Officer's Pledge
'Furthermore, ADP is of the strong opinion that the CBN should at this point in time jettison its policy of 'managed-float exchange rate' and allow Naira to find its level has been espoused by the IMF and other international financial bodies.
It is up to everyone to clearly and unequivocally reject un-American values being espoused by both the extreme left and the extreme right.
Crispin Mostajo, CssR, advised the faithful to temporarily avoid receiving holy communion if they continued to support candidates who espoused violence as a means to resolve conflicts.
Parent organizations often communicate a set of values intended to guide action throughout the MNE, referred to as espoused values, to initiate a socialization process.
Similarly, espoused national culture has been shown to influence media choice when an individual wants to deceive (Furner & George, 2012); however, an exhaustive search did not identify any research that has investigated the influence of espoused national culture on media choice in other contexts.
The authors named and discussed two types of theory: espoused theory and theory-in-use.
In this work, Braxton (education, Vanderbilt U.), Proper (management, LIM College), and Bayer (emeritus, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U.) seek to identify the inviolable and admonitory norms of graduate teaching and monitoring espoused by graduate faculties and examine their differences across different institutions, disciplines, personal attributes, and professional statures in order to see if there are core norms espoused across these various differences.
Mary was "espoused" to Joseph, therefore was actually his wife (Douai Rheims Bible, and New American Bible).
This is an opportunity to reflect on the deceptive tactics he espoused and their devastating effect.
The paper's founder was Joseph Woodhead, an outspoken and forceful Holmfirth man who espoused the Liberal reforming cause..
Alison Clayton-Smith, who was planning some training on values, got everyone thinking this month when she asked for recent examples of organisations that had done something that didn't fit with their espoused values, and had been 'found out'.
(That was the position espoused by the late Libertarian Party presidential candidate Harry Browne, who opposed Jim Crow laws but felt they should have been fought on the local level.
From the role that the idea of Paradise plays in the psychological qualities of the mother-infant bond and child development, to a close analysis of the Biblical tale of Paradise and the Fall, to links between the Jungian individuation process and the legends and myths of Paradise espoused by various cultures, Longing for Paradise deeply scrutinizes the complex interplay of human belief and thought processes.