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Example sentences for: purport

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In the last week, Dole and his surrogates have focused on two new issues that purport to embody the flawed ethics of the administration.
But the Democratic and Republican leadership did purport to agree on this: The vote was supposed to be one of "conscience."
Laundry Balls/Rings : Strange, hard balls or rings--$30 to $90 apiece--that purport to wash clothes without detergent by means of generating ions, or an undefined substance called "structured water."
The problem lies, of course, among those who make up examinations that purport to judge a person's intelligence or aptitudes on his precise and proper use of words, at bottom a thoroughly idiotic notion, clearly unrelated to being a musical or other artistic or mechanical genius or craftsman.
Two additional provisions would look at proposals to stem the growth of unauthorized Web sites that purport to belong to a candidate and would require periodic review of regulations to judge their impact on the use of the Internet to spread political activity.