Sentence examples for supposed examples of from inspiring English sources

In the wake of the 2004 tsunami, pictures of Fiji "mermaids" circulated on the Internet as supposed examples of items that had washed up amid the devastation, though they were no more real than Barnum's exhibit.

Those who met him at that time were disparaging about this supposed example of the Nazi "master race".

Creationists never tire of citing Piltdown as a supposed example of paleoanthropological gullibility and stupidity: "A modern ape's jaw and a human skull had been doctored to resemble an ape-man, and the forgery had succeeded in fooling most of the world's greatest experts" (Gish 1979, pp. 131 132).

Begala pointed to West's comment as a supposed example of disrespectful expression which should not be tolerated when it comes to political figures/country crises.

Meaning that I can stoop to consider even the supposed lowliest examples of the form while simultaneously rising to admire the obscure and the esoteric — and all without feeling any great change in myself.

These were supposed to be examples of Mexico's modernisation.

They're not the happiest characters, but they're not supposed to be examples of soulless youth.

Namely, there's three rows of seats behind the speakers that are evidently supposed to contain examples of 'diversity' for the TV cameras, but there's nobody to sit in them.

Where, or with whom, do you think the reader's sympathies lie? _ They're not the happiest characters, but they're not supposed to be examples of soulless youth.

As the months between the choruses of "Carmen Ohio" sung by those besotted with Buckeyes football have demonstrated, there is plenty wrong with college football -- coaches misbehaving, players' sense of entitlement and the backroom business dealings of athletic directors and presidents who are supposed to be examples of the merits of hard work and fair play.

The waves have only been made choppier by the fact that the country's unemployment rate of 7.7 percent has been compounded by various recent and much-publicized examples of supposed early or temporary retirement — hello, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Steven Soderbergh, Leonardo DiCaprio and Pope Benedict.