But there were worrying moments for Khan as he was clipped around his supposedly suspect chin, and by swinging shots which glanced off his temple; one right hand saw Khan's legs wobble in the eighth.
Since then, there have been more stories: about Rice's former work at the consulting firm Stonebridge on behalf of Rwandan strongman Paul Kagame; about her financial dealings and potential conflict of interest over the Keystone XL pipeline; and a devastating Daily Beast article about her supposedly suspect diplomatic "temperament".
The number of theologians or priests investigated for advocating supposedly suspect views shrank.
I also cringed at times, as he was subjected to racist haranguing in Boston arenas, the soft-spoken son of immigrants called all kinds of names because of his supposedly suspect language skills.
Erdogan's regional foreign policy initiatives, his flirtation with Iran, his split with Israel, and his courting of supposedly suspect countries such as Syria have led western commentators to speculate about a "strategic realignment" in Turkish policy, away from the west and Nato and towards the Arab and Muslim worlds, in parallel with the AKP's pursuit of a neo-Islamist agenda at home.
These supposedly suspect ties "actually consisted of normal professional interactions with international scholars," states a letter of protest to the Iranian authorities from the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association, the United States-based scholarly society.
In fact, the point of Schedule 7 is that they are supposedly not "suspects".
Pence used it in February when it was supposedly seven terrorists or suspected terrorists being apprehended daily at the southern border.
The attack came days after American officials released details of an intercepted document supposedly written by a suspected Jordanian terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in which Mr. Zarqawi boasts of directing about 25 suicide bombings in Iraq and requests help from Al Qaeda in igniting a sectarian war.
The paper cited a number of specific policies to support its allegation of a crackdown: supposedly heightened scrutiny of birth certificates signed by midwives suspected of peddling fraudulent documents, supposedly unprecedented passport denials to people born far from the border, and a supposedly new focus on babies delivered by one Texas doctor.
