Sentence examples for purported use from inspiring English sources

He stepped down after uproar over his purported use of the position to act as an unelected but de facto member of Parliament.

President Barack Obama has not decided how to respond to the purported use of deadly gases in the Aug. 21 attack in the Damascus suburbs, which activists say killed hundreds of people.

"We recommend that the MoD carry out its own investigation into the purported use by the coalition forces of a UK-supplied cluster bomb, further to evidence found in Yemen.

Indeed, in his purported use of sham contracts to defraud his own company, Shkreli has something in common with the most storied — and probably the most lucrative — example of self-dealing in American history: the Crédit Mobilier scandal of the eighteen-sixties and eighteen-seventies.

7.42pm BST President Obama has called Assad's purported use of chemical weapons "a challenge to the world," according to a flash advisory by the Associated Press based on the president's remarks at a photo-op with Baltic leaders: WASHINGTON (AP) Obama: Syria chemical attack 'a challenge to the world,' threatens national security interests.

Mr. Assad's government has insisted that any United Nations investigation be focused only on one purported use of chemical weapons it says was carried out by insurgent forces in the Aleppo area on March 19 and which it says killed at least 26 people.

Bacteria living in close association with eukaryotic cells are purported to use the T6SS as a mechanism for maintaining pathogenic or symbiotic interactions with their hosts.

Centres purporting to use spiritual powers to find remains have sprung up, some charging hefty fees.Such activities used to be forbidden by Vietnam's dour Communist ideologues, who railed against "backward superstitions".

A bipartisan bill in the Senate introduced by Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, purports to use the market to provide universal coverage.

"Face Value" compares the viewer's face to a composite portrait of some 200 other visitors, then spits out a "personal face reading" that purports to use that comparison to define character.

Given the limitations of our study, it adds to the growing body of evidence purporting the use of ultrasound and colour Doppler as a safe, reproducible and pragmatic approach for investigating thyroid nodules for the presence of malignancy and reducing unnecessary FNA biopsies.