Sentence examples for a supposed cause from inspiring English sources

But more often it's not pranksters who slash art but self-promoters with a supposed cause.

On the magazine cover, each crease in his face is labeled with a supposed cause: the sanitation strike, the Tombs riots, the presidential debacle, the school strike, the transit strike, the long, hot summer, and on and on.

Poizner launched an aggressive attack on the supposed cause of California's budget crisis: undocumented workers.

The supposed cause of our new racial uproar, the senator's remarks at Strom Thurmond's centennial birthday party, rapidly became irrelevant to the big picture (as did the clueless majority leader himself).

As always, New York marched in the vanguard, with LBJ taking as his chief antipoverty model a Lower East Side far-left community-organizing group called Mobilization for Youth, which emphasized confrontational political activism to change "the system," poverty's supposed cause.

But by doing so, are we not confirming the anti-Muslim bias that is the supposed cause of Muslim rage against the U.S.? When we react to African American young men differently do we not encourage a sense that they are somehow outside of the mainstream culture?

Medication was not meant to be a permanent solution to mental health issues because they don't target the supposed causes of the episode itself, but more to help relieve symptoms for a period of time so people who are suffering can cultivate the stability and skills to support themselves moving forward.

It goes out of its way to list and then to debunk all the supposed causes, from violent video games to the punishing social hierarchy of high school life.

Dr Jose Bartolache was convinced that the cacao plant played a major role in ill health, although very tight clothes and going to bed late were other supposed causes.

Although stressors are generally studied separately, we simultaneously measured several variables directly or indirectly reflecting the supposed causes of bat decline: availability of woodland habitats around bat roosts, genetic differentiation amongst colonies, and exposure to chemical pollutants and to a protozoan parasite, Eimeria hessei.

But Whewell argued on the basis of the history of science that there are cases of hypotheses where the supposed causes have not been observed and which yet seem to yield explanations of observable phenomena.