Word: purported
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...Cunning Man does not, however, purport to be Hullah's chronological autobiography, and does not move as a blow-by-blow account from Sioux Lookout to the moment Hullah takes up pen and begins to write...
Lastly, Mansfield contended that the "Tell Someone" leaflet is a violation of academic freedom because it provides an absolute definition of sexism. While this may be true, the leaflet itself does not purport to serve as any type of authoritative statement, and certainly does nothing to prohibit professors from seeking their own definitions in the classrooms. In the interest of practicality, some definition must be given without a lengthy philosophical discourse to justify...
...more general level, we have serious reservations about the continued usefulness of unions. They fail to advance the interests of the people they purport to help, and they are essentially anti-democratic...
...Republicans who now control Congress promise to cut taxes on the "middle class," but their definition extends to families with income of $200,000 a year. And the G.O.P. prefers to pay for new tax cuts by cutting spending on the poor and the bureaucracies that purport to serve them, rather than on upper-income Americans and business interests. Incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich last week brushed off the inequities of Social Security and its projected insolvency, which he dismissed as "an abstraction that is 25 years from now." He added that it is "utterly irrational" to alarm retirees about...
...think it's a far greater offense to be lumped together for what I think," he says. "There are many Asians like me who don't agree with their views. It's frustrating when they purport to be an association for all Asian students at Harvard. It's true that we're perceived as a group, but there's a big cleavage among Asian concerns...