purports

The bill, as the title purports, simply provides for the transfer of the stock now held by the State in the Planters '

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

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.

Capitol Hill Coffee House 2008

Well, this label purports to come from Chateau Caillot. '

PROOF 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.

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 1: Ulysses S. Grant 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.

And By “American,” We Mean “Us” 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.

Memorandum 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.

History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) 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."

Reuben Maddison: a true story, 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?

nst online 2010

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?

nst online 2010