His opponent is his fellow-schmuck Therman (Zach Galifianakis), who has stolen Barry's wife by deploying his purported powers of "mind control".
His purported powers of healing through the yirdaki and his encyclopaedic intimacy with the Yolngu stories of the land, sea, stars, people and creatures since the dreamtime, lure visitors to Wallaby Beach from all over the world.
A decision-maker is said to be acting ultra vires (beyond its powers) when it does not have the power it purported to have, and therefore there is no basis in law for the impugned action or decision.
Through her brother and sister-in-law, Olga met Rasputin, a self-styled holy man who purported to have healing powers.
The chile is purported to carry spiritual powers, said to open up one's heart and mind to possibility and chance (to be crudely honest, it also opens up your asshole).
Prior to Long, peasant uprisings with religious themes had always been preceded by floods, outbreaks of disease, famine, crop failure or other natural phenomena, as sections of the rural populace attributed such disasters to the wrath of the heavens and sought help from leaders who purported to have supernatural powers.
The paper, Women In Power: Milestones, purported to chronicle the 28 most significant political events of the past century involving women.
This herbal unguent, rubbed into the skin, was purported to confer the power of flight, transporting witches to their Sabbat gatherings.
Inside those shiny tomes, algorithms and computations purported to illustrate the magical powers of securitization, over-collateralization and correlation.
Another key element was a video released by the anti-doping campaigner Antoine Vayer the previous week, showing what purported to be Froome's power, cadence and pulse rate for the Mont Ventoux climb in 2013.
"I'd like Sky to publish all that, to restore credibility," said Antoine Vayer, the Breton teacher who passed on what is alleged to be Froome's data to the person who compiled the video marrying what purported to be Froome's power-meter and pulse data with television footage of the Tour de France leader on Mont Ventoux in 2013.
