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America has long espoused values like equality, fairness, and justice, without fully upholding them for all its citizens.

Shockingly, they found that in companies in which meritocracy was openly espoused as a core value, men were paid less than women in cases in which both genders had identical performance review evaluations.

One is budget impoundment, which Trump has already espoused.

Most of Trump’s advisers have espoused such measures strongly.

Frail but defiant, he told the court his now-defunct newspaper Apple Daily had only espoused the values of Hong Kong’s people: “Pursuit of democracy and freedom of speech”.