espouse
拥护,支持,推崇,赞成
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es·poused, es·pous·ing.
- : to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause.
- : Archaic. to marry.
- : Archaic. to give or promise to give in marriage.
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Examples
We have sent our young to fight espousing these values, but we send them off to countries most Americans couldn’t locate on a map, and few really care about.
This, she said, was a walking back of the “facial freedom” the administration had previously espoused.
Duterte has recently started espousing vaccinations as the country’s way out of the crisis, but its inoculation program didn’t begin until March, using donated CoronaVac jabs from China.
Professors probably will start to “play it down the middle,” he said, and not address controversial viewpoints for fear of being accused of espousing them.
The constitution’s framework still espouses gender-based discrimination, particularly surrounding citizenship.
While these entities may find common cause in the act of sanctioning, they often espouse different goals.
Some espouse deaf culture as the better, more natural, way of life.
Meyerson is clearly perplexed by politicians who not only espouse principles but act according to them.
The right loves to bash New York's Citi Bike system, but bike share embodies the privatized, self-reliant ideals they espouse.
Instead I am going to write about the more interesting aspects of games: what sort of politics do they espouse?
This is the time when he was in correspondence with Modeste Mignon and wished to espouse that rich heiress.
He regretted that she should espouse the cause of this foreigner.