The spy agency nurtured the Taliban in the 1990s and, although it purported to sever its ties after 9/11, is believed to maintain the relationship.
The movie also evoked the immediacy of live television drama; its gimmick was that it purported to unfold in real time on a Sunday morning, appropriate for its moral sermon.
Facebook held a big press event a few years back to announce its video chat integration with Skype, which it purported would usher in an era of face-to-face communication.
And, he said, had the resolution meant what the state court believed it did, it would "raise grave constitutional concerns if it purported to 'cloud' Hawaii's title to its sovereign lands more than three decades after the state's admission to the Union".
A decision-maker is said to be acting ultra vires (beyond its powers) when it does not have the power it purported to have, and therefore there is no basis in law for the impugned action or decision.
It purported to show favorable results from numerous comparison tests.
It purported to be making steady, double-digit returns trading options on a share index.
We believed that a statement, a confession, an incident, was seldom what it purported to be".
Arts and Crafts was largely supported by the metropolitan culture it purported to despise.
As with all lives, not all was as it purported to be.
They rejected GE Ns proposal because they didn's think it would do what it proposald to do.
