Purports Sentence Examples

Nennius' Historia Britonum gives what purports to be a list of these cities.

Lessing' in 1773, which purports to have been sent by Archimedes to the mathematicians at Alexandria in a letter to Eratosthenes.

The Arithmetica, the greatest treatise on which the fame of Diophantus rests, purports to be in thirteen Books, but none of the Greek MSS.

It purports to be a conversation at the little town of Beaucaire between a soldier (obviously the writer himself) and three men, citizens of Marseilles, Nimes and Montpellier, who oppose the Jacobinical government and hope for victory over its forces.

It purports to be by Paul, and was held to be his by Marcion and in the Muratorian canon, and by Irenaeus, Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria, all writing at the end of the 2nd century.

The Ypodigma purports to be a history of the dukes of Normandy, but it also contains some English history and its value is not great.

The marquis de Ruvigny has compiled The Jacobite Peerage (Edinburgh, 1904), a work which purports to give a list of all the titles and honours conferred by the kings of the exiled House of Stuart.

Marianus wrote a Chronicon, which purports to be a universal history from the creation of the world to 1082.

It purports to have been indited from the Rialto at Venice by Pope Alexander III.

It purports to be the second part of a combination of two anthologies, the Mufaddaliyat of al-Mufaeldal and the Asma`ayat of al-Asma`i, but contains many more poems than are in either of these collections as found elsewhere.

The first charter, said to be a forgery, purports to have been given by i z Ethelstan.

The history of the Babis, though covering a comparatively short period, is so full of incident and the particulars now available are so numerous, that the following account purports to be only the briefest sketch.

If any such circular or document sent to an infant purports to issue from any address named therein or indicates any address as the place at which application is to be made with reference to the subject matter of the document, and at that place there is carried on any business connected with loans, every person who attends such place for the purpose of taking part in or assisting in the carrying on of such business will be deemed to have sent or caused to be sent such circular or document, unless he proves that he was not in any way a party to and was wholly ignorant of the sending of such document.

The Anecdota (" Secret History") purports to be a supplement to the Histories, containing explanations and additions which the author could not insert in the latter work for fear of Justinian and Theodora.

It is mainly religious and philosophical, and purports to give the discussion, extending over several days, in which a Buddhist elder named Nagasena succeeds in converting Milinda, that is Menander, the famous Greek king of Bactria, to Buddhism.

They include many particulars of what purports to be the history of the royal houses, not only of the Gautar and the Danes, but also of the Swedes, the continental Angles, the Ostrogoths, the Frisians and the Heathobeards, besides references to matters of unlocalized heroic story such as the exploits of Sigismund.

If the mass of traditions which it purports to contain be genuine, the poem is of unique importance as a source of knowledge respecting the early history of the peoples of northern Germany and Scandinavia.

Jainism purports to be the system of belief promulgated by Vaddhamana, better known by his epithet of Maha-vira (the great hero), who was a contemporary of Gotama, the Buddha.

Giraldus Cambrensis, in his gives what purports to be the text of this letter, known as " the Bull Laudabiliter," and adds further Privilegium of Pope Alexander III.

When he heard about this secular development, agnostic tho he purports to be, Riddell went totally berserk.

This document purports to be a legal instrument, but it is internally contradictory.

There is however a prevailing economic orthodoxy which purports to draw the safety limits of safe government borrowing.

The latter is a person who claims to act and purports to act as a director, tho not validly appointed as such.

On a literal reading of the Act, it only purports to protect a " disabled person " against discrimination.

This is the same coalition of the shilling that now purports to export its sordid distortion of democracy to Baghdad.

The machine purports to give the central arterial waveform from the measured radial artery pressure waveform.

At his death, which did not take place until 725, he left the kingdom to his sons Aethelberht, Eadberht and Alric. After the annal 694 in the Chronicle there is inserted a grant of privileges to the church, which purports to have been issued by Wihtred at a place called Baccancelde.

The more it grows, the more heavy-handed it becomes and the more it tramples the very rights it purports to protect.

If this happens, the government becomes an agent that works against the very ideals it purports to protect.

Second, and more likely, when a term in the contract purports to confer a benefit on the third party.

It purports to be serious, in contrast to the stage-managed schlock of something like Jerry Springer.

In fact, any creed that purports to have access to " Truth " can be subverted in this way.

It may or may not involve real people and events, must it must reflect the basic feel of the time it purports to represent.

They vary greatly in their reliability or validity (how consistently the test measures what it purports to measure).

The psychoanalytic model purports that trichotillomania occurs in an attempt to resolve a childhood trauma, the most common of which is sexual abuse.

Starting out small, as most businesses do, the company now purports over half a million customers around the world.

You should exercise extreme caution when you come across a source that purports to offer Spanx at a wholesale price and allows you to buy just a few items.

Feng Shui is a system that purports to harmonize the chi in your home to maximize your health, wealth and happiness.