In the U.S., people jump on the phone and profess to know each other after 15 minutes.
It's too bad, then, that these days you're not considered serious in Washington unless you profess allegiance to the same doctrine that's failing so dismally in Europe.
And, Hobbes tell us he would banish all doctrines that profess to make the individual or the sect, more importantly in some ways the sect, the judge of the sovereign.
He and Mr Gorman profess to get on well, however.
Still, every South Korean President has to profess support for closer integration and eventual reunification with North Korea.
Even those who profess to have no interest in Ascension, are nevertheless observing what is going on around them, and it will be valuable sometime in their future.
I profess, I have never seen the like, since my days of vanity, in old King James' time, when I was wont to esteem it a high favour to be admitted to a court mask!
What politician doesn’t these days profess concern about the sharp elbows of American capitalism?
There are many software programs that profess to help children learn to read by, for example, saying aloud a highlighted word or picture.
I profess that I was surprised at the news.
The country is administered by faceless bureaucrats who profess adherence to a revolutionary ideology, but look out only for themselves, and no longer believe in anything.
Boys arriving in the workplace will profess themselves confident after the first hour.
He would have been happier still if the resolution had included a more explicit denunciation of hate-speech, and had spoken about the rights of those who profess no religion.
The Church of England has promised to set aside places at its new schools for children whose parents profess other religions or none at all, but the pledge has no legal force.
Those learned intellectual historians all profess literature.
Yet now even Mr Thaksin felt obliged to profess again his loyalty to the king, and to pay homage to his power.
Not to mention the great many who profess a total disinterest in the election, seeing it as a futile exercise.
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