Sentence examples for as it claimed to from inspiring English sources

In part, Enron was not as big as it claimed to be, a close parsing of its financial data shows.

Labour have accused the Treasury of failing to fully tackle tax avoidance as it claimed to have identified a £2.6bn black hole created by downgraded revenue forecasts.

This reminded me of Edmund de Waal's observation that the ideal plain brown slipware was often not as useful as it claimed to be.

Nor was it as "excellent" as it claimed to be, he said, and performances sometimes looked like "wallpaper … and were deadly boring".

In terms of international law, says the EU report, this had no legal power and challenged Georgia's sovereignty.Russia backed separatists in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, even as it claimed to be a neutral peacekeeper.

All of this made it very easy to conclude that Communism was, as it claimed to be, the philosophy — even the religion — of the future, to which everyone had to bow down.

Some observers have challenged that view, saying the military has advanced its positions even as it claims to be acting in self-defense.

TED is a display case for such stories and, increasingly, the subject of them; the conference has grown famous for making its speakers famous, even as it claims to tread above the rough clod of celebrity.

Many readers question whether Groupon vets its retail partners as well as it claims to.

If Dragons' Den has as much nous as it claims to have, this will be its last series.

The key question about the banned Brotherhood — one that has proved vexing to Egypt's nervous bourgeoisie and to many of its Western friends — is whether it has really renounced violence, as it claims to have done.