Prime ministers, ministers and backbenchers from across the political divide have regularly stood in parliament and espoused the value and need to respect democracy.

Until the election, we had had more than 20 years of governments that, to a greater or lesser extent, espoused the values of the liberal elite, with little dissent.

Can we espouse the values of fairness and respect and at the same time discriminate and injure?

The people who espouse the view that [digital specialists] have some kind of technological advantage are diminishing in number.

He campaigned on the idea of economic nationalism and his senior appointees faithfully espouse that view.

He travelled the world espousing his views.

Legal academics have espoused the view that the legal changes required for a republic are not complex.

Scholars in the 19th century especially espoused this view; it largely went out of fashion in academia by around 1940, although many amateurs still hold to it.

During the trial of four and a half years, the defendants turned the courtroom into a public platform to espouse their cause.

He also espoused the cause of animal welfare.

Unrelentingly he espoused their cause and never compromised with their cause or their welfare.