Sentence examples for supposed sake from inspiring English sources

And now today's politicians are bickering over whether details of "this sorry tale" (as Lionel Jospin, Mitterrand's successor as Socialist leader, has called it) should themselves be divulged, or stay hidden behind the wall of secret défense for the supposed sake of national security.A dozen people have been charged over the scandal since it broke four years ago.

What's new now is that journalists have become their own distribution systems, which means that they have a reason -- or an excuse -- to be in the celebrity business, for the supposed sake of their work.

Let us state this unequivocally: false equivalency – the practice of giving equal media time and space to demonstrably invalid positions for the sake of supposed reportorial balance – is dishonest, pernicious and cowardly.

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that there does exist a solution to the Fermat equation.

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that Britain votes for Brexit.

But suppose for the sake of argument that they're right and that the legislation will dramatically curtail legal abortion.

All of these things cost money: suppose, for the sake of argument, that all four have reduced profit by the same amount.

Suppose for the sake of argument that each of them is persuaded to shift just 5%, or $50,000, of their portfolio into gold.

Suppose, for the sake of discussion, that we grant the libertarian premise that private pay systems provide the best ethical template for society's income distribution.

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that we stipulate that, say, ten per cent of federal outlays (a very high figure, as even the Cato Institute would probably agree) purchase nothing except waste, fraud, and abuse.

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that Europeans collectively have indeed made a choice to accept lower economic growth in return for more social protection and leisure time the so-called "European social model".