Confess in sentence

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The nineteenth-century philosopher John Stuart Mill had a more civilized view:“I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think…that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind….The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.”

Of course, I must confess a personal interest in this question.

I must confess that I also tried, several times, to get rid of that inner self, to find a surrogate capable of representing me better on the social scene.

I confess that I am rather afraid of spiders, but even an arachnophobe like me found little reason to be worried.

Europe’s Lost DecadeMILAN – “Never confess a failure.

Finally, the victim is blamed for the abuse: in the case of the detainees, if they would only “behave,” and confess, they wouldn’t bring all this on themselves.

I confess that I view the heritage of Communism with more skepticism.

Otherwise, ten years from now, they will be forced to confess that today’s dithering imposed enormous additional tax liabilities on northern Europe.

Such reforms, though feasible, I confess are unlikely.

I must confess to having enjoyed these talks more than most meetings I have in Washington, DC and other democratic capitals.

Politicians, however, hate to confess past errors.

I confess to being a member of a minority that thinks countries should do most of their borrowing in their own currency, especially if they peg their exchange rate.

I must confess that I was appalled at their ignorance of nutrition, psychology, game dynamics, and even women’s magazines.

Yet few Chinese are willing to confess that the US-led Afghanistan war, which removed the Taliban and Al Qaeda from their dominant roles in the country, improved China’s domestic security.

The High Cost of Cheap FashionOXFORD – I confess: I do it, too.

Restoring Faith in GlobalizationMUNICH – I must confess that I am a firm believer in the benefits of globalization.

Second, regardless of whether modern macroeconomists attribute our current difficulties to causes that are “patently unrealistic” or simply confess ignorance, why do they have such a different view than we economic historians do?

I can now confess my method.

Under this regime, participants in the conflict who have committed crimes will confess them to a national tribunal with international advisers, and will receive an eight-year “restriction of liberty” sentence, which is closer to being on probation than in prison.

I confess to being a huge Lin fan.

This keeps the net present value of their asset (the loan) constant while postponing the day of reckoning (when they have to confess to their regulator that the loan is unrecoverable).

In all of these cases, people somewhat sheepishly confess that their level of understanding was far worse than they originally thought.

Catholics confess to their priests, not to God himself.

I must confess that I failed to anticipate that China’s naval and territorial expansion would advance at the pace that it has since 2007.

We, especially white South Africans, have tended to be dismissive of our Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which allowed those who had committed great crimes under apartheid to confess their acts openly and thus avoid prosecution.

does little to illuminate what was done to which Armenians by which Ottomans during World War I. Today, Turks willing to discuss or even apologize for the massacres refuse to confess to the “supreme crime,” but Armenians can accept no other label.

Yet I confess to doubt.

With Chelsea Manning in prison again for refusing to confess that Assange incited, or helped, her to leak evidence of US atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan, the best explanation of what is going on comes from Mike Pompeo, Trump’s first CIA director and now US Secretary of State.

Here, I must confess some bias.

But it won't do, you know; you must confess and receive the sacrament.'

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