Sentence examples for purported existence from inspiring English sources

While the purported existence of Saddam Hussein's W.M.D. programs provided the casus belli, the war was ultimately an exercise intended to demonstrate the power and might of the United States, and the folly of seeking to challenge it.

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As a vertebrate faunal transition is recorded within this stratigraphic interval, these correlations, and the purported existence of a depositional hiatus (the Tr-4 unconformity) at about the same level, must be carefully re-examined.

A prominent approach to the analysis of social entities can be found in [ 52], where John R. Searle attempts to reconcile a naturalistic worldview with the purported existence of social entities.

Convinced that the new science gave witness to God's providence, they rejected traditional a priori proofs, which purported to demonstrate God's existence with mathematical certainty and without appeal to experience.

On their Owenian line, the story becomes that the arguments of Parmenides and his Eleatic successors were meant to be generally destructive of all previous cosmological theorizing, in so far as they purported to show that the existence of change, time, and plurality cannot be naively presumed.

In the late 1970s, Chinese scientists purported to have discovered the material existence of the qi energy which qigong seeks to harness.

During the 18th and early 19th centuries, many Americans and Spanish believed in the existence of the Buenaventura River, purported to run from the Rocky Mountains in Utah or Colorado to the Pacific Ocean.

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.

The prosecutor can start with the simple fact that these laws and further administrative restrictions were deliberately imposed on American citizens without the existence of the problem they purported to address.

She sets out to prove the existence of the ether, a substance purported to conduct light in the way air conducts sound.