Purports

The bill, as the title purports, simply provides for the transfer of the stock now held by the State in the Planters ' ❋ Various (N/A)

As with most pieces of legislation Democrats seem to have a penchant for crafting, this one is ostensibly worded to deliver exactly the opposite effect of what its title purports to champion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Well, this label purports to come from Chateau Caillot. ' ❋ Francis, Dick (1984)

Finally, without further specification of detail, it may be said that the act which in its title purports to make provision for a diverse and greatly extended civil service unhappily appropriates an amount not more than 65 per cent of its ordinary demands. ❋ Unknown (1878)

When John McCain purports to speak for “every American” with his ill-informed and bellicose stance on Russian-Georgian conflict, I throw up a little in my mouth. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I fear that we may be facing another "1205 document" here, where everyone agrees that it's an authentic Russian document, but what it purports is incorrect. ❋ Unknown (1995)

If then the discipline of the history of dogma is to be what its name purports, its object is the very dogma which is so formed, and its fundamental problem will be to discover how it has arisen. ❋ Adolph Harnack (1890)

Council of Protection was referred by Mr. Taylor to Hugo James, Esq. Attorney-General of Jamaica, who expressed "his inability to comprehend the principle upon which such a resolution was framed" -- and adds that it was thus "rendered a mere nominal institution, without the slightest benefit resulting to that class of our society to whom it is especially intended by the legislature that it should be, as its name purports, a Council of Protection." ❋ Unknown (1835)

What does it benefit him, or anyone else, to cast aspersions and doubts on the patriotism or nationalism of anyone else; or, indeed, on what the present national administration's "1Malaysia" rubric purports to uphold? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I find it ironic that NCLB's moniker purports to focus on the individual

The recorded call purports to come from a Nevada credit union, but police say the credit union is unaware of the phone calls and is unaffiliated with the scam. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In saying AARP "purports" to be seniors 'sidekicks, I have in mind the way it exploits the belief of its members, many of them elderly, that it gives reliable, disinterested advice when it puts its name to insurance products and promotes them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He begins with Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius, a books that includes what Eggers "purports" is his audition tape for the MYV show The Real World." ❋ Ed Gorman (2009)

But that misses the point: Chief Justice Rehnquist purports to describe how the Court has acted in determining when a right is protected by the Constitution. ❋ Erwin Chemerinsky (2010)

This forum purports in being the larges online resource for the writing community. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though this ballot measure would mean the same or lower taxes for most households in Colorado, Hickenlooper apparently doesn't like that it would slightly raise taxes on his fellow millionaires - even though it would also rescue the schools he publicly purports to care about. ❋ David Sirota (2011)

In a book that purports to tell all about the private quirks and rages of the Obamas the author and the publisher can have it both ways. ❋ Earl Ofari Hutchinson (2012)

The middle of the Village would seem to have everything that Metro purports to value in a subway station, with both ridership and access to one of the most important educational institutions in the region. ❋ John Mirisch (2011)

[Rando] McGuy: This is [purported] to be- Informed Person: Woah, don't [say that]. ❋ Never Shoot Allen. Ever. (2023)