Sentence examples for purportedly looking for from inspiring English sources

In the company of his disciples, Confucius travelled in the states of Wei, Song, Chen, Cai, and Chu, purportedly looking for a ruler who might employ him but meeting instead with indifference and, occasionally, severe hardship and danger.

EMC has been purportedly looking for a buyer for a year now — for a time it was rumored to be HP — after activist investor Elliot Management began to pressure the company to spin off its biggest piece, VMware.

Moncada was purportedly looking for $40 million to $50 million and signed for plenty less.

So, while purportedly looking for a single terrorist email enroute to Yemen ("the needle"), the NSA collects every single email from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft ("the haystack").

And yet, in December 2013, 250 police officers violently raided more than 25 Soho flats, purportedly looking for victims of trafficking.

In fact, two big players are purportedly looking into the whole ordeal: the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission.

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They were looking for an interview that purportedly implicated Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams in the abduction and murder of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten, by the IRA.

They were looking for an interview that purportedly implicated Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in the abduction and murder of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of 10, by the IRA.

If we choose a purportedly easy tool then, what we're looking for is a development pattern which is both wieldy and without eventual obstruction.

As a man (purportedly successful, but decidedly single) actually hoping to meet a powerful, successful woman interested in me, I only hope that those women looking for love do not forgo their dreams, interests and desires in the hopes of finding their "man".