Sentence examples for purported success from inspiring English sources

With each purported success, the D.E.A. has lobbied Congress to increase its funding.

He has a point, and not just about the murkiness of the surge's purported success.

He also sought to link the purported success of the nuclear test to a ruling Workers partyy convention in May, the party's first since 1980.

Indeed, some people in the past had speculated that Bernard L. Madoff's purported success was based on front-running orders at his brokerage firm, which unfortunately turned out not to be the case.

As in all Ponzi schemes, the government said, Mr. Hsu paid interest to the first wave of investors with principal invested by secondary waves, and used this purported success to lure in more investors.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, a champion of broken-windows policing, also uses the number of misdemeanor arrests as the metric to demonstrate the purported success of his broken-windows policies.

The financial success of purported ceremonial rugs led to their continued production.

A company purported to exemplify a successful straddling strategy?

However artificial the comfort Dawn Approach is purported to have provided Godolphin, with his barnstorming success at Newmarket on Saturday, he has at least refreshed the pristine excitements that first persuaded Sheikh Mohammed to build a racing empire.

And I had no success at all with the site's purported ability to forward photos to anyone with e-mail.

Back when she was enjoying her success on Broadway, I doubt that Hansberry (who is purported to have been a closeted lesbian) would have thought of naming her autobiography To Be Young, Gifted, Black, and Gay.