Sentence examples for purported to help from inspiring English sources

Many say, however, that it has ossified into an organisation that purported to help the majority Malays gain a more equitable share of the nation's wealth but did more to allow an elite to line its pockets.

The panel said the Diocese of Rockville Centre -- the nation's sixth largest, with 1.3 million Catholics in 134 parishes in Nassau and Suffolk Counties -- had protected at least 58 abusive priests with aggressive tactics that purported to help victims and their families but that actually used intimidation, claims of confidentiality, hush payments and other means to avoid lawsuits and publicity.

Featured on store shelves and on Web sites is a growing array of new products that often carry dozens of different ingredients -- from trace levels of certain vitamins to pieces of dried vegetables and bits of freeze-dried organ meats -- purported to help treat a variety of ailments.

One afternoon last month, in a lull at the shop, she took time to help her 11-year-old daughter, Christina, prepare for a homework session by handing her a chunk of lepidolite, an amethyst-colored stone purported to help the mind focus, and a bit of further instruction: "Now take your rock across the street to Eagle Dancer and go get a medicine bag".

It started as a brash stunt, which some saw as making a cheap point about China's rising economic power, and having exploited the very people it purported to help, it ended in a public relations disaster.

Here's where I come out on it: If you hear of something that has been shown or purported to help fight cancer, by all means, share.

However by reinforcing the disaster narrative, Campbell, amongst others, is disenfranchising those she purports to help.

It purports to help new students make friends and have fun; it grossly under-delivers.

That moral complexities are sometimes ignored by those purporting to help was sensationally underscored in late May.

It's a take-no-prisoners examination of the ways she says we have been scared, misled or bamboozled by those purporting to help us achieve financial security.

"Independent contractors are prevalent in every industry, but this proposal unfairly targets the internet sector in a way that could hurt the very people it purports to help".