Sentence examples for supposed success from inspiring English sources

In other words, for all of their supposed success last summer, these films really weren't that successful.

Yet after more than a quarter-century, the supposed success of the 1982-83 Greenspan Commission to save Social Security continues to inspire calls for bipartisan panels.

Instead, he said, a psychic's supposed success in solving a crime is often a result of people "retrofitting" the psychic's clues to fit the facts afterward.

"I think the concern is, does the supposed success of this elsewhere mean it's going to work here?" Mr. Strahl said recently.

By definition, the gross domestic product evaluates gross measures to determine the supposed success and happiness for a country and its citizens.

Each time the supposed success turned out to be a mirage; three years into its austerity program, Ireland has yet to show any sign of real recovery from a slump that has driven the unemployment rate to almost 15 percent.

(Who, for example, remembers the killing of 15,000 Indonesian civilians by British troops as they restored Dutch colonial rule in 1945?) Even the supposed successes of liberal interventionism, such as Kosovo and Libya, are scarred by escalated death tolls, ethnic cleansing and dysfunctional states.

Politics and too many distracting and insular media debates about the supposed successes and failures of the stimulus act, government, and the private sector get in the way.

If the supposed successes of 2014 cause the GOP to become complacent in its Latino outreach, Republicans will fail to recapture the White House in 2016, and possibly lose the Senate as well.

I suppose success has reinforced it, but that has come too arduously and incrementally over a long period of time to account for my behavior.

To voters who do remember Iraq, the supposed military success of the "surge" does not accrue to the Republicans' favor either.