Sentence examples for supposed purpose from inspiring English sources

That's completely against zoos' supposed purpose to educate people about wild animals.

And low taxes failed to achieve their supposed purpose — encouraging saving.

"Such actions reduce criminal trials to mere gamesmanship and rob them of their supposed purpose of a search for truth".

Whatever may be the supposed purpose, gate-keeping probably contributes substantially to cost containment.

"We are once again being by-passed by an investment that will fail to realise its supposed purpose," he said.

The cabal's supposed purpose is to overthrow Turkey's democratically elected government, controlled since 2002 by the religiously conservative AK Party.

non-specific' massive budgets that were placed in Local Service were never used for their supposed intended purpose - to maintain and upgrade the state, wired utility networks.

This paper, Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis, examines high-profile instances of ritualised murders in which the victim's body parts are used for supposed medicinal purposes, and examines the "moral crisis" resulting from the clash of tribal and colonial practices.

The Pentagon places the fuel it reserves for supposed international purposes--primarily for the Navy--in a category called International Bunker Fuel.

Once thought to posess magical abilities, and now used primarily for supposed medicinal purposes across Asia, rhino horn is now an incredibly rare commodity that's worth more than cocaine, gold, or platinum.

How can you pass the test and still need more capital?[Regulators] say this is a test that a bank simply will not fail: if the examiners determine that a bank needs "exceptional assistance," the government, that is, taxpayers, will provide it.I suppose the purpose of this exercise was to inspire confidence among investors and taxpayers and give banks the nudge/ability to sell their toxic assets.