Sentence examples for purported state from inspiring English sources

As Joan Wallach Scott argues in her new book, "Sex and Secularism," the idea of the repressive yet lustful Muslim patriarch has long served to deflect attention from French society's discrimination against women, just as Muslim women's "purported state of abjection" has been held up as "the antithesis of whatever 'equality' means in the West".

Schilb, by this purported state class action against the court clerk, the county, and the county treasurer, attacks the statutory 1% charge on Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protection grounds. 1 The Circuit Court of St. Clair County upheld the statute and dismissed the complaint.

It's an absurd situation that has led to Manning's prosecutors referring to clearly legitimate State Department cables as "purported" State Department cables.

Thereafter, AMA sought leave of court to file a cross-complaint, which purported to state two causes of action against Glen's parents.

The complaint does not purport to state a cause of action against the company.

Because the law is an artifact and does not purport to state truths about a reality that is independent of human invention, it can tolerate considerable disunity.

There's a chapter called "The Jackson 11," which purports to state Jackson's core principles (4. The Road to Freedom Is a Beautiful System; 8. Keep Your Eye on the Spirit, Not on the Scoreboard).

Rather, the first seven causes of action, while purporting to state different claims, all hinge on one key factual allegation: that the newspapers' use of the New Kids name in conducting the unauthorized polls somehow implied that the New Kids were sponsoring the polls.

Others say following the law creates the kind of awkward situations the state purported to be legislating against.

"If I get challenged, I need to be able to show that I have the correct driver's license in order to be in the bathroom". Others say following the law creates the kind of awkward situations the state purported to be legislating against.

The F.D.P.'s argument rests on the baseless assumption that this court is absolutely precluded from applying federal law standards to weigh the validity of state court decisions purporting to apply state law.