Sentence examples for purported incident from inspiring English sources

The Syrian government called the latest charges "untrue" and said the purported incident, which made headlines worldwide, was meant to cover up opposition losses on the ground and "distract" from the ongoing U.N. investigation.

Yet it took only two witnesses, who were reported to not even be at the purported incident, to cause this unjust death sentence to be imposed on Asia Bibi.

Whilst the meeting was in progress, attention was diverted to a purported rape incident committed by a Muslim man on a Buddhist girl.

"When you talk about verification people think of fakes and hoaxes but actually what we are seeing a lot now is images or video that's real but is not from the incident that it's purported to be".

Asked about statistics that purported to show the number of incidents of reported domestic violence had fallen, Morrison said: "We are as a society becoming more aware of, I think, the greatest social challenge we face, and that is domestic violence in this country".

We believed that a statement, a confession, an incident, was seldom what it purported to be".

In a Thursday tweet, Rober said two incidents in his original video that purported to show his booby-trapped package exploding on thieves appeared to have been staged by friends, unbeknownst to him.

But far from being a Democratic Party operative or even activist, Kernell appears to have allegedly hacked Palin's e-mail for other reasons, describing the incident as "just some prank to me" in a purported first hand account previously published by Wired.

Video footage purporting to show the incident showed a large sheet of flame enveloping the front of the hotel today, followed by an expanding plume of dark smoke.

Sitrick should know: He was also the mastermind behind taking selective outtakes from the PrimeTime Live report and repackaging them into a slick videotape that purported to show how the ABC producers were mischaracterizing many of the hidden camera incidents of unsanitary conditions in Food Lion's stores.

One purported advantage was not mentioned, though.