Sentence examples for he purportedly from inspiring English sources

He has trouble defining which voters count as part of the "squeezed middle" he purportedly champions.

At Säckingen he purportedly founded a church and monastery, with a nunnery nearby.

He purportedly said in '95, "Let Medicare wither on the vine".

"People tell me that I have grown old and I should retire," he purportedly said.

He purportedly secured financing for the KLA's training and arms and reputedly engaged in a number of violent attacks in Kosovo.

The first was in January when the police revoked his press card after he purportedly disobeyed them while shooting the celebrity season premiere of the TV series "Girls".

Then, at this year's Cannes film festival, Gainsbourg was at a press conference for Melancholia with Von Trier when he said – purportedly in jest – that he sympathised with Adolf Hitler and was a Nazi.

He also purportedly made a negative comment about Hillary Rodham Clinton, the lawyer said.

James Naughtie on Radio 4's Today programme allowed the avowed anti-Zionist professor Steven Rose the chance to attack the morality of Israel's cabinet, when he was purportedly doing an appeal for brain research.

During a televised address soon after he had purportedly bowed to international pressure to restore the constitution, coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo told Malian viewers that his junta "is not going anywhere; when a group of soldiers takes power, nobody can sideline them, and that's no joke".

A federal judge declared a mistrial on Friday in the corruption case of City Councilman Larry B. Seabrook, who had been charged in an elaborate scheme to direct more than $1 million in New York City taxpayer money to a network of nonprofit organizations that he controlled, purportedly for community programs.