Sovereignty often came to be an attribute of a powerful individual, whose legitimacy over territory (which was often described as his domain and even identified with him) rested on a purportedly direct or delegated divine or historic authority but certainly not, Hobbes's covenant of the multitude notwithstanding, on the consent of the people.
This included I Know, with a melody based on the gospel song Just a Closer Walk with Thee, and lyrics directed, purportedly, at the husband she had married at 16.
The SEC alleged that Nu Skin China induced a Chinese Communist Party official to influence an ongoing investigation conducted by a provincial regulatory agency into the subsidiary's purportedly unauthorized direct selling practices.
The White House spokesman, Josh Earnest, said he could not comment on the arrest of a suspected US spy because it did not want to interfere in "a pending German law enforcement investigation" and because "it obviously goes to, purportedly, a direct intelligence matter as relates to the United States".
Cui responded, "The evidence of your crime is lying in my drawer, waiting for your movie 'Cell Phone 2' to be released". Cui has said an earlier film directed by Feng, "Cell Phone," was purportedly about his life and cast him in a poor light.
Johnson was convicted under the Mann Act, legislation purportedly designed to protect vulnerable young women, but pointedly directed at Johnson.
If that's what the ABC has to be to be judged "impartial", then we would all be better off if taxpayer support was directed towards different ventures rather than a purportedly venerable institution occupying media space for the sake of it.
In general, more anger and overt discrimination is directed at individuals with disorders such as substance misuse, purportedly driven by widely held beliefs that the individuals are 'blameworthy' and their behaviours are 'irresponsible' e.g. [ 18].
Many of the incidents were purportedly conducted as part of an operation codenamed "Strangling Necks," and were directed at those who allegedly had ties to or worked with Israel during the conflict.
Should that fail to happen, Germain would never recover the reputation he'd lost some 20 years before when he had been court-martialed for purportedly refusing a direct order.
