Sentence examples for purported commitment from inspiring English sources

Ikea apologised when critics said the decision clashed with the Swedish brand's purported commitment to equality.

It is time for our government to consider what its purported commitment to international law really means and, in the face of the Palestinian men, women and children who have lost their lives, it is time for our courts to be brave enough to hold the government to that commitment.

Yet Dorsey speaks often about his purported commitment to progressive ideals.

Despite a lofty reputation and purported commitment to universal coverage, AMA has fought almost every major effort at health care reform of the past 70 years.

There is no other plausible explanation for the supine behavior of the U.S. Congress--including some of its most "progressive" members--or the shallow hypocrisy of the Obama administration, especially those officials known for their purported commitment to human rights.

Anne Weismann, the chief counsel of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said the Justice Department's interference in state public-records requests "is extremely troubling and cannot be reconciled with the President's purported commitment to transparency and willingness to engage in a greater public discussion about the metes and bounds of government surveillance.

The treasurer, Scott Morrison, has attacked the heart of Labor's budget strategy, saying the opposition's purported intention to pay for its election spending commitments over the "medium term" shows it can't pay for them over the next four years.

We are not mistaken when seeing in Gaitonde's later painting an existentialist sensibility -- that is, with a small 'e' so to not confuse his practice with the commitment to a political existence and action as purported by the mid-20th century movement of Exisentialism put forward by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

(That purported embrace of the free flow of goods and capital masked myriad examples of crony capitalism, of course, but the commitment to internationalism, at least, was genuine).

One purported advantage was not mentioned, though.

It purported to regulate the carriers in a way that the FCC had earlier ensured could not be done legally, because the commission had freed the carriers from any commitment to behave as the utilities they have become.