How To Use Purportedly In A Sentence
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Notwithstanding, it takes a good deal of thought to achieve such a transformation, and it is an ability purportedly in demand but sadly lacking in supply within the framework of most biennales.
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What is this purportedly critical part of the island nation's tale?
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, there have even been cases in which purportedly “natural” weight-loss and other supplements, like those containing the much-vaunted Acai Berry, have been contaminated either intentionally or through sloppy production methods with stimulants like oxilofrine, ephedrine and clenbuterol and steroids like nandrolone.
The Explainer: Why clenbuterol?
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In part, the social power of cadastral maps derived from the "scientific" and purportedly ungendered (because disembodied) quality of their construction, for by concealing their human origins and political objectives in the precisely measured straight lines and quantified areas of their pictorial images, these mappings disavowed the possibility of change or resistance.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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Either way, none of us will be the worse for the truly incredible journey to inquire and discover what can be surmised about Jesus 'Lost Years by taking the questions right to the ancient temple of the Hindus called Jagannath in Puri, India, where some say Jesus spent several years (the "some" include the present spiritual leader of the Hindu religion, the Shankaracharya) and a Buddhist monastery high in the Himalayas in Ladakh, India, where an ancient scroll has long been held to exist that purportedly answers all the questions about the Missing Years of Jesus (see: www. jesus-in-india-the-movie.com)
Paul Davids: Jesus' Lost Years May Finally Have Been Found
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The woman found a letter purportedly signed by the Prime Minister.
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Government agencies, even those purportedly dedicated to making money, are inherently inefficient and self-perpetuating.
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One man has even begun making orgone generators, which use crystals, semi-precious stones and gold to purportedly put out positive energy to combat the negative vibes flooding the town from the Wi-Fi base stations.
English hippies concerned about Wifi | clusterflock
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It was her involvement in astronomy and astrology that purportedly aligned her with black magic and divination.
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..purportedly, footage was shot in a barn "raised in one day", like that alone is believable, in the pennsylvania countryside on an old 'daguerreotype' camera & the sepia toned fotos were hand colored & then spliced into an action sequence, showing a allegedly fake 'take off & landing'...
This Just in: I Break for Holidays!
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As she spoke, setting the scene with a brief history of the house and its purportedly ghost ridden past, I noticed a very sweet smell of rose perfume.
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Inhalation of amyl nitrite, as well as isobutyl nitrite, purportedly enhances sexual pleasure and produces euphoria.
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But I prefer a setup where multiple confessedly fallible voices can act as a check on each other than one in which a few purportedly infallible and objective voices manufacture a consensus, for want of a better phrase.
Matthew Yglesias » How Not to Save The New York Times
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Purportedly, people view themselves as recovering instead of recovered to remind them that they should not drink.
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Napoleon Bonaparte purportedly used this technique during his military campaigns.
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A grainy video, purportedly taken of him in high school, showed him dancing naked in the bathroom and making copulatory hip movements.
Here Comes Another Lesson
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Purportedly not directly about imagery, but deals with the closely adjacent topic of mental representations that are inherently perceptual in character, and argues that they are adequate to account for cognition, and explanatorily superior to “amodal” conceptions of representation (such as mentalese) For some recent supporting evidence, that also makes the link with imagery explicit, see Kan et al. (2003), and for some philosophical support see NyÃri (2001) and Prinz (2002).
His Name Was Do Re Mi
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This quality would be judged by five economic tests which purportedly measured economic convergence with Euroland.
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securitize" -- those loans and then, through the activities of the underwriter defendants, sell them to investors as purportedly investment grade mortgage-backed securities.
KTVZ.com - Local Headlines
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Labanino, 46, is one of the Cuban Five, who have become a cause celebre in their homeland, daily lauded by the government for what it calls their heroism in purportedly helping derail attacks against the communist isle.
Raw Story
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To show actual confusion, Virgin submitted online sales listings by owners of reflashed phones, which purportedly showed that other companies were associated with MetroPCS, e.g. offering a “Motorola MetroPCS” or “Verizon Metro PCS” phone, and posited that these showed actual and potential post-sale confusion.
Flash forward: cellphone lawsuit continues
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This cast doubt on her true identity and her story as told in the purportedly factual book.
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What Masnick spectacularly fails to see is that even if this were true, even if copyright legislation became so wildly draconian, in the cloud-cuckoo-land of an imagined future, as to render all new creative work open to challenge, all those existing in-copyright works they were purportedly plagiarising would be themselves contestable.
Creative Control - Part 2
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The republican party which is purportedly christian, should pick up the Bible and actually read it .... "love your enemies", Christ said, "pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you".
Hagel criticizes McCain over Iran comments
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Despite the problems the book had initially faced in finding a publisher in China - purportedly for its political overtones - it had finally received official sanction.
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There's a re-creation of the entrance to Garagia Rotunda, the garage studio in Cape Cod, Mass., designed by architecture critic and historian Charles Jencks, who purportedly coined the term postmodernism.
History, Repeating Itself
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Kony, who is Acholi, started the LRA purportedly as an anti-government Christian movement, though he strayed from these principles immediately.
Jennifer Brookland: U.S. Tacitly Condones Uganda Violence Through Aid
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Is it really implausible to ask these men of alleged character -- leaders of the purportedly character-building Penn State football program -- to eventually come to their senses, follow up on what they fumbled in the moment, and ensure that children were protected from further abuse by a predator and bringing him to justice, if not in the critical moment, at least before others were hurt?
Urizenus Sklar: What Would You Do?
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The artist and filmmaker purportedly formed a strong bond.
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Vikings (which then meant pirates not the Norse) did not just raid Northern Europe, they settled in the mediterranean, brought to Northern Europe dragonhead symbolism (purportedly from the Sythians around 5th C),rediscovered and settled in Greenland and North America, gave Russia its name (debatedly), and served in the Varangian guard (Byzantium) as mercenaries.
Why Fantasy?
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani officials said Saturday that a bellicose phone call to President Asif Ali Zardari from India, purportedly placed by the Indian foreign minister, prompted Islamabad to put its air force on high alert before concluding the call was a hoax.
Hoax Highlights Fragile Peace Between India, Pakistan
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At issue is the degree to which Western perspectivism -- following from the West's emphasis on individuality and style -- will be allowed to encroach upon received notions of idealism, which purportedly shun any expression of individual observation of reality.
Anis Shivani: The Best Books of the Decade
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In addition to sparking iPad sales, the cuts would purportedly be part of a larger strategy to "ignite" interest in iTunes 'video section as a whole.
MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
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Excise diversion fraud involves the falsification of export documents so that consignments of alcohol purportedly destined for the continent are diverted to the home market without payment of excise duty.
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The report did not say who in the Iraqi government had purportedly approved deal or when.
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It has been suggested that “Benin” or “Bini” derive from the Yoruba phrase Ile-ibinu land of vexation which was purportedly uttered by Prince Oronmiyan declaring the fundamental fact that “only an Edo prince can rule over Edo land.”
Gender Sensitivity Among Nigerian Ethnic Group « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
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Even the purportedly daring offerings had about them a certain politesse that left only a gossamer impression.
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Maybe so, but I think there's also a sense in which readers of fantastic fiction become attuned to these irrationalities, such that when realist writers do introduce them as purportedly naturalistic events, the artifice is obvious.
Strange Fiction 4
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Cassidy invoiced MC for consultancy services in finding labour purportedly supplied by the 11 alleged sub-contractors who were the subject of the first and second frauds.
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The 1991 law purportedly aimed to separate legal entities from the State.
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Folks in the business contend that he just needed to get over himself and grasp the brass ring (a contract purportedly worth $1.2 million annually), but apparently Meier isn't the type to bounce back from what he perceives as unjust treatment and a grievous personal attack (his ouster from the show with six weeks remaining in his contract).
From the (e)mailbag
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Dan reports below that Justice Kennedy once again resorted to foreign law to support the Court’s diktat that the Eighth Amendment now purportedly forbids life sentences for those 16 and younger who commit non-homicide felonies.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Life-Without-Parole Sentence for Under-18 Offender Unconstitutional, When the Crime Is Not Homicide
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Indeed, there have even been cases in which purportedly “natural” weight-loss and other supplements, like those containing the much-vaunted Acai Berry, have been contaminated (either intentionally or through sloppy production methods) with stimulants like oxilofrine, ephedrine and clenbuterol and steroids like nandrolone.
The Explainer: Why clenbuterol?
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Speaking of dialogue revision, part VI: and then there’s the fine art of doing it right, or, love, agent-style
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This key would allow the government to decrypt messages as needed, purportedly after seeking and obtaining a warrant.
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I came across this while reopening the case concerning the etymology of Arretium, a town in NE Etruria, which I can confidently say is unanalysable in the Etruscan language, despite Arretium being purportedly founded by the Etruscans themselves... but this is a slightly separate issue.
Minoans, Greeks, the Po Valley and Arretium
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He had retreated into a reductive cynicism, whose one belief, and satirical tactic, argued that behind every purportedly noble trend lurked greed, lust or madness.
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Traditional, central, philosophical debates, such as those between realism and nominalism in regard to universals, are purportedly deflated by Wittgensteinian approaches.
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Blogging about students, colleagues, and administrators raises further questions; I suspect, for example, that we are all familiar with non-anonymous bloggers who purportedly "anonymize" their colleagues, even though their actual blog posts make it painfully easy to identify who is who.
The Little Professor:
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Americans would discover billions, if not trillions, of their tax dollars, purportedly designated for the space program, squired away in Swiss banks and slush funds by successive presidents.
Jonathan Miller: The Earth Is Flat... but They Can't Handle the Truth
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » 2010 » August
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The main stimulant used for ADHD is an amphetamine-like drug, which purportedly acts as a tranquilizer in children.
Sound Politics: On Math Standards, Expectations, Parenting & "Special Ed"
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Maybe it was at the time when reporting weekend grosses became a feature, and hence a yardstick of a film's importance, in purportedly high-minded papers.
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* Hmmm. Sweet trefoil is purportedly yet another name for this close fenugreek relation.
Toast:
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The company purportedly restored water- and fire-damaged buildings, and investors were even given hard hats and tours of restoration projects.
ZZZZ Best's Barry Minkow in hot water again
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He was a spiritualist medium who purportedly was able to levitate as well as summon spirits.
Times, Sunday Times
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The film is only purportedly about rock and roll.
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He is the third cabinet member to resign, purportedly over the scandal hatched by a provincial governor linking Estrada to illegal gambling.
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This is one of the best ways that the world undermined al-Qaeda: Showing Muslims that the terrorist group doesn't care about the people they purportedly fight for.
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The partnership between the hardware firm and the 'Scientologist' software firm will purportedly do much towards making Apacer's SSDs less rubbish.
The Inquirer
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In the giant goldfish bowl that is Hong Kong, Mrs Chan's purportedly personal decision is being examined in microscopic detail.
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The glories of technology, combined with our high-octane lasciviousness and natural good looks, have made our town the purportedly third-biggest pornography producing centre in the world, after Los Angeles and Amsterdam.
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They claimed he was finally cornered in a pharmacy and was killed after refusing to surrender and opening fire with a 9mm Mauser pistol, which was purportedly recovered from his body.
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Purportedly the world's largest collection of carnivorous plants, is open to the public.
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Although it's purportedly a comedy - a romantic comedy, even - its most memorable scene is a tense courtroom drama.
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Despite the problems the book had initially faced in finding a publisher in China - purportedly for its political overtones - it had finally received official sanction.
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—Stowed in a warehouse with a leaky skylight is one of this city's remaining valuable assets: a U.S. Cavalry horse's hoof purportedly found on the battlefield at Little Bighorn, the site of Lt. Col.
Harrisburg Is Having a Yard Sale—Wanna Buy a Stuffed Buffalo?
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A particularly striking video that emerged earlier this week purportedly showed a few dozen young men protesting in a Damascus street.
Times, Sunday Times
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According to reports, the intruders had demanded to be shown the safe purportedly in the family home.
Times, Sunday Times
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In summary, a well grounded skepticism is needed when scientists cum advocates seek immense governmental funding for their highly leveraged and purportedly salvific visions.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Would the Public Support “Cap and Refund”?
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Labanino, 46, is one of the Cuban Five, who have become a cause celebre in their homeland, daily lauded by the Cuban government for what it calls their heroism in purportedly helping derail attacks against the communist isle.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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He was a spiritualist medium who purportedly was able to levitate as well as summon spirits.
Times, Sunday Times
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One consisted of specimens with cubic crystals on matrix purportedly from Siberia.
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It purportedly screens for pathogens involved in disease or biowarfare.
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The documents purportedly show the distribution of regular under-the-table cash payments to senior party members.
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He pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered firearm, which he tended to brandish at his employees, purportedly in jest.
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » 2010 » August
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I actually think she attempted to grab my shirt and walk over to the register I purportedly bought the cany bar.
Corsonooga
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What is this purportedly critical part of the island nation's tale?
Times, Sunday Times
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Their efforts purportedly help those in agribusiness, but new government data demonstrate otherwise.
Wendy Keefover-Ring: Wildlife Services Dodges Disclosure on Animal Killing
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He and his compadres purportedly climbed a chimney system on the southwest face.
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In other words, essays attributed to children with popular names were given higher marks than essays purportedly written by children with unusual names.
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No government cedes its power willingly, so it is likely that Canberra's interference, however purportedly reform-minded the agenda, will continue.
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The inkblots are purportedly ambiguous, structureless entities which are to be given a clear structure by the interpreter.
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The following is the full text of a letter purportedly written by the captured British sailor.
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What appealed to me about the approach was that it purportedly negated a number of things that I had been finding problematic and unfruitful anyway.
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The much-hyped Fifth Summit of the Americas is now over, culminating with the Hemispheric leaders 'adoption of the Declaration of Commitment of Port of Spain - albeit with one signatory - the Prime Minister of host country Trinidad and Tobago, who purportedly signed on behalf of all participating leaders.
Global Voices in English » Americas: 5th Summit Reactions
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What Masnick spectacularly fails to see is that even if this were true, even if copyright legislation became so wildly draconian, in the cloud-cuckoo-land of an imagined future, as to render all new creative work open to challenge, all those existing in-copyright works they were purportedly plagiarising would be themselves contestable.
Archive 2009-02-01
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When Mark Penn went on Hardball, purportedly to disown Shaheen’s aspersions, he instead sharpened them by using the word cocaine on air.
Big Girls Don’t Cry
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The study investigates the claims that neural networks and neurocomputers are purportedly better than more conventional kinds of software and hardware.
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But what he has left us with are precisely the various artful arrangements to be found there, and to become preoccupied with the ethics his work purportedly embodies is at best to get ahead of the critical task of assessing that work and at worst to engage in ungrounded speculation.
The Event of Truth
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The main subject of the narrative is a journey through a somnambulistic world by the son, Jozef, to visit his purportedly dying Father in a Sanatorium.
Celebrated Animators The Quay Brothers Return with a New Feature | /Film
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Within the philosophy of mind, an eliminativist materialism is the most radical form of materialism as it further posits that mental states (e.g., desire, hope) are not real, do not truly exist, but rather are artifacts of a "folk psychology," artifacts that neuroscience and other purportedly pure scientific disciplines will some day, at some more enlightened point in the future, vanquish.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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A recorded message was played - purportedly of the medium channeling Monty's spirit.
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One experiment was purportedly designed to find out whether spiders would spin different kinds of webs in near-zero gravity.