Sentence examples for but purportedly from inspiring English sources

The anonymous chronicle Llibre dels feyts del rey en Jacme ("Book of the Deeds of King James"), compiled after James I's death in 1276 but purportedly autobiographical, is distinguished by its skill of narration and its quality of language.

One section of the Mtkvari River embankment in the city's historical Old City was re-purposed as Rike Park, sweeping aside a number of popular but purportedly corrupt restaurant businesses.

Ms. Evans was referring to the German neo-expressionist whose cachet, which crested in the late 1980s, is on the rise again, if one can judge from the prominence afforded Baselitz pictures at booths like that of the dealer Michael Werner, where an abstract by the painter, offered for $750,000, was sold for an undisclosed but purportedly much higher sum.

But the purportedly "hard" aspects of the band never held up against much scrutiny anyway.

It is in the Enlightenment that the first modern attempts at racial classification, based not on religious ideas but on purportedly scientific ones, were developed.

The procurator was not the president of a court or a tribunal but rather purportedly was a watchdog of legality charged with ensuring the strict observance of the constitution and laws by all government officials and citizens.

Ant Financial was controversially spun off from Alibaba in 2011, a move that drew heat from investor Yahoo but was purportedly done in response to Chinese regulations around payments.

He allows that terms such as 'sub-atomic particle' and 'particle too small to see' are perfectly meaningful and should be taken literally (note that the former term is theoretical and the latter term is not but both purportedly refer to unobservable entities).

The e-mail indicates the kind of conflicts of interests that occur when analysts are beholden to investment bankers, who are in the business of selling shares but are purportedly giving honest advice to investors who may be interested in buying them.

A stake by public shareholders worth $708 million at its peak in May 1996 evaporated-but not before insiders purportedly dumped at least $50 million worth of shares.

She was writing, but had been purportedly reluctant to show the poems to others.