Sentence examples for purported definition from inspiring English sources

In one paper, he gives the following definition of health: This purported definition has received a great deal of critical discussion (Bolton, 2008; Murphy & Woolfolk, 2000; Sadler and Agich 1995).

The second product of the MBA and the FBI's Faustian bargain is a purported definition of "mortgage fraud".

The ontological argument assumes the definition of God purported by classical theism: that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect.

For names proposed after 1930, The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature [ 44] requires "a description or definition that states in words characters that are purported to differentiate the taxon" (Article 13.1.1), or "a bibliographic reference to such a published statement" (Article 13.1.2).

The many glossaries of this language (the contents of which in time found their way into Partridge's work) purported to record the special code of those who were, by definition, antisocial.

… This resonates closely with what we have called the 'technocratic reflex', i.e. policy culture's enduring deference to scientific stakeholders' definitions of risk in spite of a widely purported policy 'turn' towards greater inclusivity in deliberation concerning technoscientific futures (2012, 237).

The anticipated problems in this project include the variety of outcome measures purported to be associated with long term outcomes and the likely variety of definitions and thresholds for these outcomes.

They define hormesis as "low-dose stimulation and high-dose inhibition," declaring "beneficial/ harmful effects should not be part of the definition, but reserved to subsequent evaluation.... ......... Yet, they advocate higher permissible environmental levels of hazardous agents based on purported health benefits.

One purported advantage was not mentioned, though.

He purported not to comprehend my misgivings.

Take the purported link between cellphone radiation and brain cancer.