Sentences with phrase «what purported»

The working group thought that for authentication, a witness would support the document, by giving the basis on which the judge could find it to be what it purported to be.

In the past, attorneys resorted to commissioning professionally prepared videos portraying what purported to be an average day - in - the - life of the accident victim.

The summary — of what purported to be ground - breaking climate science — relied heavily on material published by Idso and Heartland as well as a self - published paper.

While the No Scientist is in self - critical mood, it might revisit its issue of 29th February 2009, in which it produced a map of the world showing what purported to be the effects of a 4C increase in temperatures.

No discussion of the «Research Pathways» agenda identified in the National Assessment Overview and Foundation reports — and this in what purported to be a «strategic plan» for climate change research!

I doubt that anyone in the future examining the prescience or foolishness of these hearings will find much worth in such trivial detail of a long decided case mixed into what purported to be a debate on the data of a varying climate.

In 1993, Gober produced a series of sculptures that were simply a bundle of New York Times newspapers, or at least what purported to be New York Times newspapers.

These teachers knew intuitively that IQ tests were not measuring what they purported to measure.

The studies cited in the article were not what they purported to be.

Beating pillows, crying, sobbing, shouting, swearing, screaming, embracing, they embarked upon what purported to be a great voyage of discovery, from which they received a finely tuned method enabling them to reach their human potential.

That is the key thing for us, but I'll add that they are right to suspect that economic individualism was (and is) a real creed for not a few Americans, even though that actual creed went beyond what its purported official spokespersons put forth (I think usually sincerely) in the name of natural rights and constitutional liberty.

More important is a test's «validity,» which basically means whether it is testing what it purports to test.

The other is what purports to be Romney's personal or professional profile.

You could save a lot of wasted time and message board space by looking up from cleaning your gun, occasionally, and actually reading and comprehending what you purport to be responding to beforehand.

Fourth, the view here presented, since it does not proceed by way of reduction followed by reconstruction, can take actions seriously for what they purport to be, including in this case rational action.

Indeed, the epic is «very much about its own writing,» a writing that at every moment threatens to turn into what it purports to condemn: «Milton must summon the devils into poetic being in order to warn a reader... but he runs the risk of fascinating the reader with that very poetic creation.»

That is to say, it is a religion which finds its center in what purports to be a revelation of eternal Reality to man.

Does it matter if a photo used to illustrate an article is not what it purports to be?

A re-creation that may or may not bear any semblance to what it purports to mimic.

I'll grant that the majority of contemporary Christians don't practice what they purport to believe.

Our attention has been drawn to what purports to be a report by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI).

By its own reckoning it doesn't actually do what it purports to do: which is to dramaticallyt reduce the size of the House of Lords.

By far the most impor - tant criticism is that tests do not measure what they purport to measure, and do not predict a person's performance after they are appointed.

This is one of those rare moments when there's truth to the marketing — Pitch Perfect is exactly what it purports to be, it just stretches those homages over a 112 - minute runtime and never quite carves out its own niche in the canon.

Every year, a Super Bowl commercial gets fans excited about a thing that isn't really what it purports to be (looking at you, «Ferris Bueller 2»).

Their actions do not reflect what they purport to believe.

What it purports to say is: «Cultural diversity is wonderful, so long as certain universally agreed principles are adhered to.

In reality, however, what makes a test «standardized» is that it was carefully developed to ensure validity (i.e., it actually measures what it purports to measure) and then administered and scored in a standardized manner in order to help ensure the reliability (i.e., it produces consistent results).

But what it purports to do, the GED does very well.

They don't really do what they purport to do.

Additionally, tests do not always measure what they purport to measure.

Validity data not reported but adequate evidence presented that subtests measure what they purport to measure

Validity data not reported but adequate evidence presented taht subtests measure what they purport to measure

ESSA requires indicators to be valid — or measure what they purport to measure; reliable — measure a specific result consistently over time; and comparable — measure the same element of performance across different schools.22

Crossover or minivan, this is one of those vehicles people should just buy for what it is, not what purports to be.

How does God's Promise achieve what it purports to do?

Now, to confuse matters even further, BlackBerry enthusiast blog N4BB reveals an image of what it purports to be the BlackBerry Orlando — which is apparently just like the Apollo and Sedona, but with the addition of a touchscreen.

Not only doesn't the calculator do what it purports to do overall, it fails in specific ways that quite literally make no sense.

However, a closer examination of the underlying securities of XHB reveals this ETF not to be exactly what it purports to be.

Science must ask and seek to answer the obvious questions: Does shock «training» do what it purports to do?

Unlike prescribed medication, pro- and prebiotic supplements do not have a regulatory body that guarantees that a product contain what it purports to contain.

Some works are not what they purport to be; others might be damaged and have little left of the artist's original creation; while others works are simply not great examples.

He starts with a painting that is precisely what it purports to be — a painted wall rather than a representation of a painted wall — an ultimate realist painting.

• Representational Art This describes images that are clearly recognizable for what they purport to be.

«Just model - based rubbish» «we find the continued warming stagnation of fifteen years, 1998 - 2012, is no longer consistent with model projections even at the 2 % confidence level» — vonStorch (2013) When a model can't do what it purports to do at even a 2 % confidence level, it IS RUBBISH!

It is a classic example of what purports to be journalism today, a concocted story, in which the story contradicts the headline.

not to harass folks but merely because peer review does nt necessarily do what it purports to.

But in what purports to be a serious science you can't dismiss the other 20 % as «cherry - picked» or whatever vacuous term of abuse is «insult du jour» at Climatologues Central this week.

The stick is, indeed, fraudulent: It does not prove what it purports to, and Dr Mann well knows that, which is why in East Anglia, in Virginia, in British Columbia, and now in the District of Columbia he refuses and obstructs proper scientific disclosure.

They praise the majority report because that is what it purports to give us.