Sentence examples for alleged purpose from inspiring English sources

The phrase "alleged purpose" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a purpose that is claimed or supposed but not yet proven or confirmed.
Example: "The investigation focused on the alleged purpose of the organization, which was said to be charitable in nature."
Alternatives: "supposed purpose" or "claimed purpose".

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It's bad if the alleged purpose of the transfer is to get the recipient to do something useful, like invest or hire more workers.

The alleged purpose was to inform the police about lost or stolen guns, but D.C. already had a separate law requiring the reporting of lost or stolen guns.

The alleged purpose of the Iraqi missle attacks was to terrorize Israel into widening the Gulf War into an Arab-Israeli war, thereby presumably breaking up the American-led alliance.

These two objects, Grendel's desk and the Catch-22 couch, became a daily reminder of everything occupying space in my life without serving its alleged purpose: the toaster in the kitchen that barely toasts; socks whose partners ran off years ago yet still insist on waiting, patient Penelopes, for their sock Ulysses.

According to Oscar-winning animator Ward Kimball, in the mid-1950s, the Air Force offered Walt Disney "real" UFO footage for exclusive use in a documentary, the alleged purpose of which was to acclimatise the public to the reality of extraterrestrials.

Since Medicare's reimbursement rates are significantly lower (on a per patient basis) relative to private payers, proponents of the current policy claim that the alleged purpose of the premium assistance programs is to divert patients from the less expensive Medicare coverage to the more expensive private coverage to the benefit of the providers who then earn higher revenues.

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It had, she added, "taken well more from Caulfield in both substance and style than is necessary for the alleged transformative purpose of criticising Salinger and his attitudes and behaviour".

And, a day later, NASA, America's space agency, announced that the first part of the International Space Station (ISS) will be launched in October 1998 instead of this November, because of Russia's inability to keep to its part of the schedule.When things go wrong, it is science the alleged main purpose of manned space flight that suffers first.

The narrowness of the standard is suggested by a baffling sentence in the verdict: the tribunal's majority "considers Stanisic's reference to killings and his remark that 'we'll exterminate them completely' to be too vague to be construed as support for the allegation that Stanisic shared the intent to further the alleged common criminal purpose".

The secrecy was to prevent them "being penetrated by law enforcement" agencies, the SFO alleged: "The underlying purpose was to channel money to public officials". About 70% of the BAE money transferred to Mensdorff went into accounts in Austria.

The motion alleged that the purpose of the bribes — if they were made — wasn't to trick the universities into offering scholarships, but instead to induce the players to use the sports management company as professionals.

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