(v. t.) To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.
(v. t.) To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry.
(v. t.) To take to one's self with a view to maintain; to make one's own; to take up the cause of; to adopt; to embrace.
Example Sentences:
(1) A key part of the legacy vision espoused by Lord Coe that helped to win the Games was the promise to use the 2012 Olympics to inspire more young people to play sport.
(2) The church excommunicated him in 1901, unhappy with his novel Resurrection and Tolstoy's espousal of Christian anarchist and pacifist views.
(3) The foundation espouses a method of urban planning called Enquiry by Design .
(4) That is the view Professor Carter has been espousing for a long time.
(5) We cannot think that a society has a future when it fails to pass laws capable of protecting families and ensuring their basic needs, especially those of families just starting out.” Intentionally or not, the pontiff’s politically tinged address would have bolstered his progressive reputation, even though traditional Catholic social doctrine has long espoused access to housing, medical aid and work.
(6) Anglo-American psychiatry, in espousing Jaspers and rejecting psychoanalysis, has in consequence concentrated on the form and not the sense of delusions.
(7) Hillary Clinton said on Monday that while she does not “know what’s in his heart”, she considers Donald Trump’s attack on a federal judge of Mexican heritage to be “a racist attack” and part of a pattern of bigotry espoused by the presumptive Republican nominee.
(8) We asked some regular Ukip supporting – or, at least, sympathising – commenters to tell us why they’re thinking of voting for the party and their experiences espousing the party’s views on the Guardian website.
(9) His sexist commentary and anti-woman statements, coupled with the Republican policy positions he espouses, make it virtually impossible to envision any scenario whereby 50% of female voters would cast their ballots for him.
(10) One thing that most experts agree on is that the pope is enigmatic: while he seems to espouse liberal values on some days, raising the hopes of progressive Catholics of a changing church, his staunch adherence to conservative doctrine proves that he is not the radical reformer many liberals might wish that he was.
(11) A mongst even my peers in Texas, it has become acceptable – hip, even – to espouse one's love for a member of the same sex.
(12) We have espoused unpopular causes, stood up for those too feeble to stand up for themselves, locked horns with the high and mighty so swollen with power that they have forgotten their roots, exposed corruption and the waste of your hard-earned tax rupees, and made sure that whatever the propaganda of the day, you were allowed to hear a contrary view.
(13) Because, while Edward Snowden's and the Guardian 's revelations about the NSA have shown how all-encompassing the state's surveillance has become, a counterculture movement of digital activists espousing the importance of freedom, individualism and the right to a private life beyond the state's control is also rapidly gaining traction.
(14) He espoused the belief that diet holds the key to its control at a time when that belief was widely considered to be false and its proponents a little crazy.
(15) The taste of water has been examined by both electrophysiological methods and by behavior, but none of the mechanisms espoused for its effect seem adequate to explain the response to D2O.
(16) The plan to devolve almost £50bn to the regions to boost growth sounds like the sort of thing politicians love to espouse in opposition, but quickly go off once in power.
(17) "It is about commemorating a dream that was espoused 50 years ago," he said.
(18) Those above the line espouse liberal and democratic values, those below tend toward authoritarian policies.
(19) Earlier this month David Harewood, a lead in US conspiracy drama Homeland that aired for the first time in the UK on Sunday (19 February), reinforced a view that has long been espoused by minority performers frustrated with the lack of opportunities on offer here: "There really aren't enough strong, authoritative roles for black actors in this country," he told a crowded Bafta screening at the British industry's grand epicentre in Piccadilly.
(20) They espouse contradictory beliefs about men: they believe that men are predatory and not trustworthy, but also more mainstream beliefs that call for reliance on the opposite sex.
Sensationalist
Definition:
(n.) An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.
(n.) One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) We had achieved so much in just a few hours, if the Liberal Democrats and Tories believe that the sensationalist reporting of a small minority's actions will somehow distract from the whole they are wrong.
(2) Stone says she sees a connection between sensationalist headlines and the kind of abuse she used to encounter regularly six years ago in Cambridge.
(3) A sensationalist and scruple-free press seems eager to collude in their “noble lie”: that a Middle Eastern militia, thriving on the utter ineptitude of its local adversaries, poses an “existential risk” to an island fortress that saw off Napoleon and Hitler .
(4) The film woudn’t have had to become sensationalistic, but finding some sources of conflict, either internal or external, that went beyond the usual Republican-Democrat sparring would have saved it from some longuers .
(5) India's often ruthless and sensationalistic media had agreed to stay away.
(6) "We are the first to concede that much more work lies ahead of us, but we refuse to accept the sensationalist, media-oriented declarations of any group, especially when they are carping and filled with incorrect information.
(7) Osborne told the BBC in an interview recorded last Thursday after his remarks about Philpott: "I think where there's been division is when you get pressure groups and sensationalist media reports.
(8) Now that the first step has been taken and the problem has been acknowledged, the debate about how to reconcile our cherished rights and values is too important and intricate to be left to the simplified and sensationalist slogan of 'the right to be forgotten'.
(9) To me it wasn't titillating, sensationalist, or even entertaining, but in terms of the way female servants were treated by those above and below stairs, it was accurate: many were raped, mistreated or subjected to abuse.
(10) We are really frustrated with the number of sensationalist claims that are being made, not just about TalkTalk as a company but more importantly about customers losing millions and millions of pounds,” she said.
(11) "The ever-increasing pressures on the Parole Board to 'get it right' all the time are at least partially driven by sensationalist and relentless reporting of cases where people released by the Parole Board have gone on to commit appalling crimes," the report says.
(12) The coverage of Muslims in mainstream media continues to be very negative and there are too many sensationalist headlines that generalise about Muslims.
(13) This misguided, sensationalist and uncorroborated journalism only serves to direct attention away from the actual perpetrators in Egypt.
(14) The author examined four weeks of stories on the Associated Press Videotext service in early 1986 in an effort to evaluate the validity of critics' charges that journalists were over-emphasizing the role of homosexuals in the progress of the disease, and that their stories were laden with negative or sensationalistic terms.
(15) In 2007 I was accused of being a “sensationalist and scaremonger” by the UK Department of Health’s chief nursing officer after I’d said the problem of antibiotic resistance affected thousands of hospital patients – and would get much worse if something wasn’t done.
(16) In recent years, more and more interpersonal problems and issues have been discussed using highly sensationalist analogies with slavery.
(17) Then she vanished, sparking a police hunt, a murder inquiry and a narrative that has gripped the nation, culminating in an arrest that caused such a media stir that the attorney general warned against sensationalist reporting.
(18) Stewart Frater (@stewart_frater) Ed Miliband has the charisma of a shoelace #Miliband January 17, 2014 @SymonHill seemed to take issue with the reactionary and sensationalist commentary found on social media, particularly in the context of bipartisan politics.
(19) However, I do think that there has been a lot of sensationalist material put out there and maybe the time is coming that the government tries to start putting forward a constructive public health message that prepares the population with the correct information because knowledge is power essentially and if you have the right knowledge then you can feel secure in yourself.” “The essence to a public health message would be to keep it simple.
(20) The governing body described the claims as “sensationalist and confusing” while Lord Coe, an IAAF vice-president who is running for the organisation’s presidency, described the accusations as “a declaration of war on my sport” .