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He well knew that fortune is generally the principal, if not the sole, consideration, which operates on the best of parents in these matters: for friendship makes us warmly espouse the interest of others; but it is very cold to the gratification of their passions.

In proportion as either prevails, it will be conveyed into the national representation; and for the very reason, that this will be an emanation from a greater variety of interests, and in much more various proportions, than are to be found in any single State, it will be much less apt to espouse either of them with a decided partiality, than the representation of any single State.

But if Dorothea did choose to espouse her solitude, he felt that the resolution would well become her.

Effingham had, from the commencement of the disputes between the colonists and the crown, warmly maintained what he believed to be the just prerogatives of his prince; while, on the other hand, the clear head and independent mind of Temple had induced him to espouse the cause of the people.

Father Claude taught the boy to respect the rights of others, to espouse the cause of the poor and weak, to revere God and to believe that the principal reason for man's existence was to protect woman.

It is Polyneices who has come to crave his father's forgiveness and blessing, knowing by an oracle that victory will fall to the side that Oedipus espouses. But Oedipus spurns the hypocrite, and invokes a dire curse on both his unnatural sons.

Arevalo clarified that the ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES is not considering fostering communist beliefs as a crime but that they only want to draw the line when communist ideology is 'used' to 'espouse rebellion' and 'overthrow the government.'

Duterte, however, admitted that the students could lose their scholarship if they join the New People's Army (NPA) and "espouse the destruction" of the government "feeding food on their mouth."

In an ambush interview with reporters, Duterte said: "If you espouse, I said, support the NPAs, espouse the destruction of the government, I will consider you an enemy." The president was asked on his stand on National Youth Commissioner Gian Cardema's request that an executive order be issued to revoke the scholarship of "all anti-government" students.

As a lifelong Labour voter I lament this state of affairs but I, like many others, won't be voting Labour again until they drop the "we're the least worst party of unfettered capitalism" tag and espouse some truly radical policies, getting rid of the cheerleader for the City of London, the shadow chancellor, would be a good start.

Pulitzer-winning playwright-provocateur Bruce Norris ("Clybourne Park," "The Pain and the Itch") has proven himself an expert at depicting American middle-class hypocrisy, exposing characters' true convictions as contradictory to the beliefs they would prefer to espouse. There's a lot more espousing than exposing in his newest work, "The Qualms," which puts an investment banker and his wife at a "polyamorous" swingers party, where the banker soon begins manifesting his sexual repression and conventional views.

As the authors pointed out, few people are aware of their theories-in-use or that these are not always the same as the theories they espouse. One example they gave is of a business consultant whose espoused theory was cooperative problem solving with his clients.