Sentence examples for being supposed by from inspiring English sources

In Olympicus the sculptor Phidias explains the principles he followed in his famous statue of Zeus, one passage being supposed by some to have suggested the German dramatist Gotthold Lessing's Laocoon.

But it was supposed by the pious to be a sacrifice for the greater good.

He said he was supposed by his enemies to have died many times.

Non-Jews were supposed by Mendelssohn to owe allegiance to the natural moral law.

The French tricolor is supposed by some people to have originated in the Provencal fishing village of Martingues.

It is supposed, by those who know about saints, that there were two Saint Valentines who share a day.

Either way, the new policy points toward new complications in a trans-Pacific business relationship that is supposed by many to be Hollywood's future.

At times, she has looked like the President-in-waiting that she was supposed by many to be: smart, knowledgeable, persuasive.

It has long been supposed by many that the Netherlands invented what is called "total football," in which everybody moves, everybody improvises, everybody is interchangeable on the field.

THE Great Galactic Ghoul is a mythical space monster that is supposed by some rocket scientists to protect Mars from prying space probes.

The frequent stories of the love affairs of Artemis' nymphs are supposed by some to have originally been told of the goddess herself.