Example Sentences

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How did a pluralistic nation that propounds democratic values and practices come to this?

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2017

Whereas previous jihadist narratives were all about “resistance” to imagined enemies, IS propounds what Mr Winter calls “the propaganda of the winner”.

From Economist • Aug. 13, 2015

Whereas once I lauded this program, now I am absolutely disgusted by the moral nihilism it propounds.

From Time • Apr. 1, 2013

The Conclusion to his book of Renaissance essays, published in 1873, was seized on for the ardour with which Pater propounds a philosophy of beauty.

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2011

Continually we hear of some new paradoxist who propounds as a novel doctrine the teaching that the atmosphere, and not the sun, is the cause of heat.

From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)