Sentence examples for purporting to record from inspiring English sources

He showed a video reportedly captured during the fight, purporting to record rebels training in Georgia.

A text of the Ptolemaic period (4th 1st century bc), purporting to record events of the Pyramid age, tells of seven lean years in the reign of Djoser (3rd dynasty; i.e., c. 2650 c. 2575 bc).

Donation of Constantine, Latin Donatio Constantini and Constitutum Constantini, the best-known and most important forgery of the Middle Ages, the document purporting to record the Roman emperor Constantine the Great's bestowal of vast territory and spiritual and temporal power on Pope Sylvester I (reigned 314 335) and his successors.

The judge said there were "no effective checks on a person's ability to obtain sperm from Cryos" and that no "meaningful medical involvement is demanded", except for a document, purporting to record the authority of a physician and which in any case the mother had forged.

He produced a tape purporting to record a senior Georgian official planning the murder with a notorious Chechen warlord.

For instance, there is an alternative record of what Chief Seattle had to say at the 1855 council with the new governor of Washington that was the most probable occasion of the speech Dr Smith purported to record.

The many glossaries of this language (the contents of which in time found their way into Partridge's work) purported to record the special code of those who were, by definition, antisocial.

Such thoughts are occasioned by Susan Hiller's wonderful Homage to Yves Klein: Levitations (2008), an immense array of photographs that record (or purport to record) instances of unaided human flight: figures leaping, floating, levitating, cross-legged in mid-air, people defying gravity – all of it presumably impossible.

Smart and vigilant activism has protected and even recreated the settings of Cider with Rosie, a book that purports to record "the end of a thousand years' life" even though it portrays a globetrotting family who worked in the farthest reaches of the British Empire.

An audiotape surfaced that purports to record a conversation in late 2001 between César Almeyda, Mr Toledo's former lawyer and a close adviser, and Oscar Villanueva, a retired general who is alleged to have been the cashier of Mr Montesinos's bribery operation (in 2002, he committed suicide while under house arrest).

But the fear of terrorism was front and center again yesterday, as the F.B.I. director warned Congress about Qaeda cells inside this country and a new audio tape surfaced purporting to be a recording of Osama bin Laden urging Iraqis to undertake suicide missions against the United States.