Sentence examples for purported ability from inspiring English sources
He especially appreciates, for symbolic purposes, the cockroach's purported ability to survive a nuclear war.
To assist him in installing a show of new work at Sperone Westwater, downtown, he had brought along three kinsmen: Cla, Corsin, and Andrei, all skilled craftsmen of Swiss stone pine, a wood that, like them, is native to the Engadine valley of the Alps, and renowned for its heady fragrance and its purported ability to lower the heart rate.
Other topics include psychic surgery, astrology, U.F.O.'s and the belief that people from outer space have been visiting Earth for thousands of years, dianetics (a theory of the Scientology movement having to do with the way the brain works), exorcism, poltergeists and astral projection (the purported ability to transport one's self to a distant place by mental power alone).
At first glance, it may seem that trying to sell chips on their purported ability to forge connections among consumers makes less sense than, say, pitching them on their crunch or taste or how they hold up when dipped into salsa or guacamole.
Oikiluoto-3 has a purported ability to withstand a direct hit from a Boeing 747.
And I had no success at all with the site's purported ability to forward photos to anyone with e-mail.
Two years later he received national attention when he signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), a state law that purported to protect individuals' ability to exercise their religious beliefs.
The telegraph allowed messages to be tapped out in code over long distances – not so unlike the Fox sisters' purported ghost – and the ability to communicate first with other cities, then countries, eventually to transmit messages across the Atlantic, was brilliant and alarming.
As reviewed by Levine et al (this supplement), many infectious agents have been purported to have the ability to cause severe and fatal diarrheal disease in young children.
That we find no disengagement or social orienting deficits in school-aged children with ASD substantially weakens the purported link between these abilities and autism.
Some studies purport that the ability to develop and preserve one's identity is the primary factor in one's eventual adaptation to an event [ 37, 46, 47].
