Sentence examples for purported attempts from inspiring English sources

He has no knowledge of the other six purported attempts on his life.

Turnout among early midterm voters is exploding across the country but so are scandals over purported attempts to suppress voting.

Snowden said the purported attempts by the U.S. to extradite him represented "a threat not just to the dignity of Latin America or my own personal security, but to the basic right shared by every living person to live free from persecution".

Mr. Mugabe has played the Mujuru faction against Mr. Mnangagwa's camp, and some see the purported coup attempt as part of that strategy, because various unsubstantiated reports have sought to link both factions to it.

— interrogate purported alibis, and attempt to re-create the crime so that they may establish a more precise timeline.

"Here we have an FBI investigation of purported possible terrorism and attempts to overthrow the American government by a protest group, and the discovery during this investigation of an actual terrorist plot to assassinate the leaders of that protest group," he said.

Later in 2011, he directed a performance art piece that purported to be an attempt to contact Williams's spirit.

In effect, though he purported to oppose any attempt to hijack the economic agenda of the G-20, Putin succeeded in setting the stage for a critical debate on U.S. foreign policy with the global leaders.

The videos featured actors posing as members of a biologics firm, and purported to show Planned Parenthood attempting to profit from the illegal sale of fetal tissue.

In the 1910s and 1920s, attempting to expose purported clairvoyants became one of Sadler's favorite pastimes and he regularly worked with a Northwestern University psychologist and Howard Thurston, then a prominent magician, while investigating psychics.

In a subsequent review, Frances Yates, the great intellectual historian, attempted to defend the purported occult origins of the game.