Sentence examples for purported purpose from inspiring English sources

The U.N.'s good works in Bosnia--its purported purpose there--have been similarly outweighed by the mission's nasty downside.

The fact that two competing companies — Live Nation Entertainment and StubHub — are backing these organizations represents a clear conflict of interest to their purported purpose.

Payments to one of these two companies, totaling approximately $3.8 million, were almost exclusively identified for the purported purpose of "financial consulting," and largely originated from two companies registered in Belize.

The bedroom tax, a government-commissioned analysis found last year, is failing in its purported purpose of encouraging tenants to move out of unnecessarily large homes: fewer than one in 20 has done so.

He looks frail but speaks as eloquently as ever, lashing out at Scotland's 'toxic' anglophobia, as Charlotte Higgins reported here Cross-bench peer and former BP boss John Browne mounted a spirited defence of fracking, in a discussion with Jim Naughtie that was quickly diverted from its purported purpose, to dicuss Browne's book, Seven Elements that have Changed the World.

Its purported purpose is to celebrate working men and women and their — our — progress toward better working conditions and fairer workplaces.

On June 29, Deputy Attorney General James Cole sent a memo to prosecutors, citing "an increase in the scope of commercial cultivation, sale, distribution and use of marijuana for purported medical purposes".

The claims "purported to cover any use of the claimed method in a general-purpose digital computer of any type". 409 U.S., at 64, 65, 93 S.Ct.

He especially appreciates, for symbolic purposes, the cockroach's purported ability to survive a nuclear war.

First, even if it were determined that the Attorney General purported to [p344] authorize an electronic surveillance for purposes exempt from the general provisions of the Act, there would remain the issue whether his discretion was properly authorized.

Smaller drones, like the popular, three-pound model seen below, are especially useful for commercial purposes like filmmaking, farming, and photography, and are purported to carry less potential danger of running into aircraft or buildings than their larger competitors.