Sentence examples for by purporting from inspiring English sources

The Sunday Times of London lured them to private talks by purporting to be lobbyists for a U.S. consortium seeking to buy votes for the United States' bid.

The Sunday Times of London lured them to private talks by purporting to be lobbyists for a consortium seeking to buy votes for the United States' bid.

The first charge alleges Dizaei is responsible for misconduct in a public office by threatening Baghdadi and by "purporting to arrest and detain" him, knowing he did not have reasonable grounds.

The initiative grabbed the headlines by purporting to be something new and fresh, but it was more symbolic than practical and did nothing to really challenge business or indeed economically underpin a new kind of parenting contract.

He charms an art dealer and his wife, by claiming to know their children but, even more crucially, by purporting to be Sidney Poitier's son and offering them all parts in a putative movie of Cats.

And courts have only made the problem worse by purporting to be scientifically literate, and allowing in all kinds of evidence that would not make it within shouting distance of a peer-reviewed journal.

In one of the more toe-curling moments in cinema, in Indecent Proposal, the architect played by Woody Harrelson stands in front of his rapt, cute students and, as a back-to-front slide of Le Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel flicks by, purports to quote Louis Kahn.

None of this is currently measured by those purporting to gauge school quality.

Parents' fears are fuelled by surveys purporting to demonstrate that TV viewing is harmful.

So, the latest is a piece by Donald Boudreaux and Mark Perry purporting to debunk the notion of middle-class stagnation.

The next day a statement was made in Pakistan by people purporting to be from the Taliban.