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In any case, Mr Livingston, an avowed cost-cutter, says the "heart attack" approach to job cuts is often counterproductive.

I believe that what is called experience is often but an avowed fatigue, resignation, blighted hope.

An avowed skeptic, van Loon left the Immaculate Conception and the Resurrection out of his subsequent The Story of the Bible, 1923.

He was a more than commonly candid English gentleman in his avowed dislike of the poet's nonsense, verbiage and verse.

In Russia Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once boss of the Yukos oil company and avowed enemy of Vladimir Putin, went on trial for a second time.

His avowed belief was to put social responsibility before the amassing of great wealth.

On the strength of his avowed penchant for philosophical thought, they decided that he was a genius.

O ye who believe! Enter into Islam wholeheartedly ; and follow not the footsteps of the evil one; for he is to you an avowed enemy.

Classic scenes: an avowed dialect old woman to see a popular actress .

Freud's family background was Jewish, though his father was a freethinker and Freud himself an avowed atheist.

Mr. White avowed publicly that he killed his wife.

He avowed himself (to be) the author of the book.

Ms. Li is complained finally without the door, avowed and can hapless.

He avowed that he would never cooperate with me again.

Let not the Evil One hinder you: for he is to you an enemy avowed .

There were novelists of the time, like Howells, who avowed that they were "realists" .

He avowed himself (to be) a socialist.

If the peacekeepers hand them over, their avowed mission to protect civilians could be fatally compromised.

Cardinal Richelieu avowed openly in his political principles, that "kings should always avoid using the talents of thoroughly honest men. "

There is no evidence that President Obama or any leading Democrat is an avowed socialist.

Here was Ronald Reagan, avowed opponent of overdependence on government, again taking personal and political help from Hoover.

FOR all its avowed atheism, China is quite taken with the Christian idea of original sin.

Jaymes is an avowed bisexual, who has had on-screen sex with women and believes that by doing so, she will prolong her adult film career.

European Union Commissioner and climate negotiation envoy Connie Hedegaard expressed skepticism over China's avowed shift.

The avowed aim of this Government is to reduce taxation.

Their avowed fiscal conservatism is clouded by their pet inheritance-tax cut and tax break for marriage.

"Look East" , long an avowed tenet of government policy, is in vogue.

His avowed mission is impressing the "public heart" to care nothing about it. . .

Strengthening the social welfare system has been an avowed goal of the current administration since it came to power six years ago.

When we shift to avowed novels, the turnover of the generations is an astonishing feature.

Barack Obama, the new US president, is an avowed enemy of tax havens.

Your avowed friendly countries are like North Korea , which is a rogue nation, and Pakistan , which is sponsor of terrorism.

PETER MANDELSON is an avowed trade liberal.

This conduct is incongruent with avowed principles.

He avowed that he would never return.

But I do not need to look at avowed heretics.

secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed.

Women never acknowledge that they have fallen in love until the man has formally avowed his delusion and so cut off his retreat.

Mr Cameron has long avowed an admiration for Disraeli.

The avowed terrorist stood before them.

'Jon is an avowed free trader, ' Mr. Weaver said. 'If you have a trade agreement, you want it enforced. '

Their children all avowed that they wouldn't miss of hearing mother's chair for anything in the world.

He had avowed to himself a choice.

Finally, the foreign powers betrayed their own avowed democratic principles in order to preserve feudalism.

A false friend is worse than an avowed enemy.

He avowed that he was guilty.

Only 5 yrs back this avowed criminal killed 2000 innocent men, women and chidren and razed capital of Chenchnya to the ground.

Only 30% of the soldiers who took part in the survey said that admitting avowed homosexuals to their unit would have a negative effect.

that, between fleeing as an avowed criminal, and remaining as a hypocrite, conscience might find it hard to strike the balance;

Despite avowed allegiance to the free market system, private businesses are among the strongest opponents of effluent charges

It would certainly be welcome, the official avowed, if China and others did more to boost consumption;

covert Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown:

An Analysis on Avowed Constitutive Factors in Civil Lawsuit

Lying beyond what is evident, revealed, or avowed, especially being concealed intentionally so as to deceive

this was ricci ' s avowed goal