espousal

espouse | American Dictionary

espouse
verb[ T ]
 fmlus/ɪsˈpɑʊz/
to support an activity or opinion:
He espoused conservative political views.

Examples of espouse

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It is, however, in the discourse and practices of sanitary reconstruction espoused by urban authorities that the most significant continuities can be discerned.
In one extract he had shown his contempt for the political pragmatism espoused by the home rule party.
There could be no guarantee that those espousing respectable norms and practices would behave as they might be expected to.
The essays flow into one another, all singing from the same hymn-sheet rather than espousing different viewpoints.
This absence of a conceptual linkage between the rural and the urban labour markets compromises the model of integrated development espoused by the report.
The likelihood-based approach to business-cycle filtering espoused here could be used to meld estimated macroeconomic models and business-cycle filtering.
Nonetheless, just as some academics have been quick to espouse local ideas, so local people have embraced scientific terminology to promote their causes.
The tension in each case was often between texts that espoused one emphasis and practices that reflected another among those who read and wrote them.
By espousing the latter, one rejects modularity yet one does not reject cognitive neuropsychology.
Was the psychological theory they espoused consonant with our increasing knowledge of language and language interiorization processes?
On the face of it, these two theories seem quite incompatible, espousing rather contradictory views of how visual perception transpires.
Further research is urgently needed, now, to assess the extent to which this espoused approach is successful.
Finally, the association is also accused of espousing illiberal views in the field of personal rights.
The group espouses exogamous marriage, but this is an ideal rule and can be followed or not.
There is often resistance to scholars espousing paradigms different from those traditionally applied to a given subject.
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