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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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cause
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And there was the great Lord Byron, a powerful name, a man well known to espouse the cause of freedom.
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Y., so eager to espouse other causes , has thus far been uncharacteristically low key and ineffective.
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They were believed to have sprung from the ranks of alienated youths who had espoused ultra-right-wing political causes .
policy
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On the other hand Tsongas, another centrist sceptical of big government, espoused an industrial policy which distanced him from Clinton.
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Where a country espouses outward-looking policies , it may continue to behave in many important respects as though it were still domestically focused.
principle
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A moderate conservative, Bush espouses the principles of limited government.
view
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The allegation is dangerous and insulting to Morrissey, especially when you consider that he has never publicly espoused racist views .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Followers of the sect espouse pure love and nonviolence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He did not espouse a theory of contingent duties vesting subsequently to careless acts.
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It has been rhetorically espoused by politicians and sceptically analysed by academics.
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This was the credo that Church himself espoused as a landscape artist.
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Under any such setup, voters elect a leader who espouses a program.
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Until recently women have had a struggle to get the unions to espouse their interests.