0 present participle of espouse
1 to become involved with or support an activity or opinion:
Vegetarianism is one cause she does not espouse.
Their main disadvantage was that ' there were so few workers, the vast majority of those espousing socialist ideas being teachers, lawyers, students, or other members of intelligentsia ' (p. 186).
While espousing an inclusive definition of -ilm, it was simultaneously reinforcing institutional realities that profoundly impacted how, where, and ultimately at whose hands this -ilm would be imparted.
The union leaders unfortunately neither extended their good intentions to espousing women's special grievances nor did they make any effort to include women within the ambit of union activity.
These differences suggest parties can trespass on issues both by taking ambiguous positions on issues and by espousing positions that are consonant with their party's traditional concerns or reputation.
Kingwell is here describing an argument rather than espousing it.
Espousing this broad construal of empathy does not help in specifying what is covered by the concept in terms of psychological processes and mental involvement.
Students espousing this vantage point shared many of their parents' visions of local moral decline.
This was a statement of values and created a political difficulty for governments espousing different political ideologies.
