espousal

Examples of espoused

espoused

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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.
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.
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.
Was the psychological theory they espoused consonant with our increasing knowledge of language and language interiorization processes?
Further research is urgently needed, now, to assess the extent to which this espoused approach is successful.
Espoused theories are more open to critical appraisal.
The person-centred approach, espoused in the book, is essentially optimistic and individualistic and one senses an emphasis on ' success ' stories.
The values espoused by older people expressed interdependence - not being a burden, caring about others, and reciprocity.
Often conflicting aims are espoused, mixing charitable concerns with financial sustainability.
Natural music, then, can be seen as a response to a broader set of values espoused by the opera critics.
They espoused a philosophy of national interests - that excluded no-one explicitly - that privileged no class, region, or economic sector.
Politicians who espoused 'zero tolerance' for drug use and other crimes were rewarded with electoral victories in the 1980s and after.
Roles such as facilitator and enabler are espoused, but exactly what is to be facilitated or enabled is often not made clear.
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