Word: purportedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Liberals should hate rent control because it violates every principle they purport to embrace. It contributes to the housing shortage and to homelessness. It benefits those who need it least and forces the expense on those who can least afford...
...dock are those antidrug crusaders who have either squandered credibility with exaggerated scare talk or strained credulity with prissy pronouncements. The media are culpable as well, for sensationalized coverage that has often served to glamourize the menace they are decrying. Then there are the social-policy conservatives who purport to see no connection between the flagrant neglect of the economic problems of the underclass and the current crack epidemic. And sad to say, well-intentioned parents can also contribute to the hysteria by viewing drugs as the sole cause of their children's problems, rather than as a symptom...
Frazier, 67, resigned after a four-monthinvestigation by the Medical School's FacultyConduct Committee found he had plagiarizedmaterial in four articles published between 1966and 1975. The articles did not purport to beoriginal research, and until now, were minorfootnotes in Frazier's career, colleagues said...
...less to do with high-minded ideals than with a greater intellectual interest in history than in money management. To reduce every college generations' career choices to a question of money versus altruism trivializes student's judgment and motives. It shows contempt for the self-relience that American colleges purport to teach...
...disturbed by some SWAT members' behavior Saturday. The snide remark of my fashionable apathy strikes me as akin to the arrogance, condescension, and elitism that SWATters purport to protest. I hope this doesn't characterize all members of SWAT. I thank the woman who insulted me for hearing and acknowledging my complaint. I was surprised SWATters chanted while I explained myself--a group that expects others to hear their argument will not hear another. I was even more suprised that a group advocating civil rights tried to limit my freedom of speech...