Sentence examples for supposed effort from inspiring English sources

The E.P.A.'s supposed effort to regulate "farm dust" has become something of an urban legend.

In addition, the commission will almost certainly pursue limitations on early voting and absentee balloting, all as part of a supposed effort to combat fraud.

It was not until May of this year that the Obama administration, in a supposed effort to be more transparent, publicly acknowledged what the world already knew — that it was responsible for his death.

A State Department official has dismissed as "facile" the suggestion that Al Qaeda was somehow trying to link the United States and Israel as targets, in a supposed effort to equate them in the eyes of the Arab or Muslim worlds.

In 2000, in a supposed effort to curb the spread of canker (aka citrus herpes), a "fruit-blemishing bacterial disease" that was allegedly threatening to destroy Florida's commercial citrus crop, state legislators and the Department of Agriculture waged an epic campaign against private property rights.

That is the context in which President Chirac's supposed efforts in 2002-03 to defend the "international order" and the UN itself need to be placed.

As for Iraq's supposed efforts to "reconstitute" that program, they would have had to say that reports about the uranium shopping and the aluminum tubes were the extent of the evidence — and those claims were already in serious doubt when Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney told the public about them.

Instagram is working on a feature for in-app time management, but stuff like this negates Facebook's broader supposed efforts to make our relationship with its attention-hungry platforms less of a compulsive tic.

Suppose effort (e) can be measured.

This archive trawl repeated familiar mantras about how the royal family cared a great deal more for the country than they did for each other, without ever once pointing out that the supposed rescue effort was every bit as much for their benefit as ours, or asking if we might not have been better off as a republic.

Suspicions about Western intentions appear to have snowballed here in recent years, and Mr. Tobin's case has unfolded amid a series of incidents involving supposed espionage efforts that underscored those concerns.