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Example sentences for: purport

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But the Democratic and Republican leadership did purport to agree on this: The vote was supposed to be one of "conscience."
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Indeed, we leave the LSC program subject to even a greater uncertainty than the one we purport to have eliminated, since other circuits may conclude (as I do) that if the limitation upon welfare representation is unconstitutional, LSC attorneys cannot engage in welfare litigation at all.
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."
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.