#avowed

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

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Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. ↗

— Elihu Root

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It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

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I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall. ↗

— George Weinberg

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