Sentence examples for as purported. from inspiring English sources

The responses closely align to the pre-service teachers' beliefs about evaluation as purported by He et al. (2011).

If we simply accept these "ideals" as purported by the media, and go to such great lengths and take risks to conform to them, what are the implications?

Since the start of the revolt, Israeli forces have killed at least 685 Palestinians, almost 200 have been slain by fellow Palestinians as purported collaborators, and 42 Israelis have died.

This time the former prime minister, wearing grey, sat in court to hear a nervous judge reading out a sentence of seven years' jail, a three-year ban on public office and a fine of $190m as purported compensation for damage allegedly caused when she struck a gas deal with Russia in 2009.

This might imply that enabling factors available to these women abound as purported by Anderson's Behavioural Model.

It's that time of year again no, not International Mother Language Day as purported by UNESCO but the time when Wal-Mart Stores announces its fourth-quarter earnings.

Nonmoral claims, they maintain, commonly express beliefs and for that reason are rightly seen as purporting to report facts and as being evaluable as true or false.

What the above argument suggests is that regardless of whether there are any such things as propositions, our 'that'-clauses are best interpreted as purporting to refer to such objects.

Realists cannot simply dismiss this possibility, though they can legitimately challenge noncognitivists to make good sense of how moral arguments and disagreements are carried on without surreptitiously appealing to the participants seeing their claims as purporting to report facts.

Where the words are used (uncharacteristically) in a way that does not purport to reveal the agent's will, we do not understand a promise as really being made; we only take a speaker to have promised, and so to be bound to perform, if he understands the words he uses, in particular as purporting to obligate him.

Yet it is pretty clear that people do generally regard their moral claims, and the moral claims of others, as purporting to report facts, and to the extent they themselves sincerely advance such claims they seem to be regarding at least some such claims as actually true.