Most of them are just what they purport to be.
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Look, I would never purport to be a Weezer scholar.
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This one, at least, does not purport to be a museum.
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I don't purport to be a perfect Christian; I'm far from it.
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Your employee didn't purport to be an expert and wasn't deceiving her.
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We are mystified, or purport to be, by mass shooters, for example.
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The same goes with fake emails that purport to be from retailers.
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But some groups that purport to be feminist are siding with the employers.
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The surveillance practices about which Republicans purport to be so concerned are mushrooming.
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So what does this book purport to be and what is it actually?
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Both purport to be more elegant and user-friendly than everything else out there.
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Only a minority of remarks are "propositional"—ie, assertions that purport to be true.
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To be fair, Clips doesn't purport to be as good as a human photographer.
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They purport to be non-credit currencies - that is, monetary assets without corresponding liabilities.
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There are plenty of games that purport to be about archaeology and exploring ancient cultures.
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Even many who purport to be allies find it difficult to separate queerness from sex.
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Some of these pictures are what they purport to be (Wittgenstein's eyes, the Bibliothèque Nationale).
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For example, opinion editorials should be labeled as such, not purport to be news articles.
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They have more in common with prisons than the pleasure palaces they purport to be.
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Though both the FARC and the ELN purport to be Marxist insurgencies, they are very different.
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Beware of websites that purport to be official outlets for a particular stadium or concert venue.
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However, he has taken a different approach with other leaders who purport to be democratically elected.
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As with most of Oliver Stone's movies, Nixon doesn't purport to be a strictly historical biopic.
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And despite similar names and what purport to be similar strategies, their actual holdings can vary widely.
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Some purport to be fully medical and only take on patients who have a valid Health Canada license.
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As Wired recently explained: The papers the FRC produces often purport to be meta-analyses—studies of studies.
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"You purport to be an objective journalist, BBC purports to be an objective, down the middle network," Shapiro replied.
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The authenticity of the documents, which purport to be at least 15 years old, has not been independently confirmed.
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But that is not the end of the story, even—perhaps especially—for conservative justices who purport to be textualists.
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We purport to be a country that respects the autonomy and liberty of all individuals, unless they forfeit these rights.
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I purport to be a believer in sharing one's secrets as a path to wellness, and I do believe this.
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Contestants purport to be "friends" with the producers and, when they do appear on screen, the show is instantly more interesting.
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Calling itself the Arab Council for Regional Integration, the group does not purport to be broadly representative of Arab public opinion.
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"My letter was not, and did not purport to be, an exhaustive recounting of the Special Counsel's investigation or report," Barr writes.
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They mock Islam and purport to be soldiers against a "war on Whites," while being mindful not to embrace overt white supremacy.
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These nonprofit groups purport to be grassroots organizations, but they run ads advocating corporate-friendly energy policies, without disclosing their financial backers.
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If you purport to be a thriller at some level, how do you engage an audience at that level, that visceral level?
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And so while 39 percent of Americans may purport to be embarrassed by a Clinton presidency, 56 percent say that about Trump.
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When these projects are used to sell art on an international market, they feel uncomfortably exploitative, even though they purport to be philanthropic.
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Not the vapid mass-market imitations that purport to be pilsners yet are really diluted and dull, but any number of craft expressions.
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No matter how astounded they purport to be about what they've discovered, it's the people holding the guns who present the immediate danger.
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"Dirty John" is part of a long list of cultural material in recent years about people who aren't who they purport to be.
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The experience itself is simple, and not nearly as relaxing as what you'd expect from a typical massage, nor does it purport to be.
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"My March 24 letter was not, and did not purport to be, an exhaustive recounting of the Special Counsel's investigation or report," Barr wrote.
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"My March 24 letter was not, and did not purport to be, an exhaustive recounting of the Special Counsel's investigation or report," he wrote.
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On one side, establishment Democrats who purport to be taking on Trump, but are funded by big money and tied up in big money strings.
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Deepfakes — fabricated images, audio, or video that purport to be authentic — represent one area where technology companies will almost certainly be ahead of lawmakers' expertise.
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They end up being dutiful meditations on guilt rather than stories about the people whose mistreatment and oppression they purport to be so interested in.
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After all, the critics ask, how can scientists purport to be "objective" if they are actively involved in a march supporting something which is seemingly politicized?
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Both "Chris Dicker" and "Gregory Watson," purport to be interested in celebrities because of their ability to inspire and inform, specifically about becoming rich and beloved.
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The heist raised a key question for Ethereum and for dozens of other platforms that purport to be "decentralized:" Who decides when the code needs changing?
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They may "purport to be doing well and taking advice while still incredibly unhappy and unhealthy" but still secretly "drowning in their mental illness," she said.
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In some ways, that's more of an honest representation: it doesn't purport to be something that it's not, it doesn't pretend to be a perfect representation.
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In addition, many Chinese are wary of helping because of numerous scams where people purport to be victims of an injury in order to extract compensation.
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But then again, "Russian Doll" doesn't purport to be about fashion, a point of little concern to the viewers attempting to shop the show's wardrobe online.
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Since so many products and features we use now purport to be powered by it, you can get a sense that it's just a bullshit marketing term.
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"Governments at least purport to be acting solely in the public interest, but platforms are making these decisions based on what's in their financial interest," he continued.
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If the past century holds a lesson for Jews, it's to beware every form of illiberalism, including the illiberalism of those who purport to be on our side.
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On both the right and the left in politics, and extending far beyond that, we find some such men who purport to be proponents of law and order.
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Most hacks occur via phishing — sending fake emails that purport to be from someone you know, to encourage recipients to give up useful access information or download malware.
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Available to digitally rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon, Vudu, and Google Play As with most of Oliver Stone's movies, Nixon doesn't purport to be a strictly historical biopic.
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The works are in the public domain, and as long as the app didn't purport to be sponsored by the museum, Cuseum would have been in the legal clear.
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And though today's critics of "cultural Marxism" purport to be very learned, they proceed seemingly unaware of the heavy baggage involved in alleging that conspiracies have ruined the land.
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This is one of the reasons why SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says the labels, and funds that purport to be investing along these lines, need some type of oversight.
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"We already offer the things they purport to be their cause — industry-leading pay starting at $22017 per hour, benefits, and a safe workplace for our employees," the statement read.
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Their "punishment" beatings and shootings of drug-dealers, pimps and loan-sharks purport to be for the protection of "their" communities, but often they simply want the business for themselves.
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As forward-looking as games purport to be, they could not exist without inspiration from the past, without taking the power and prestige of countless nameless creative sources for themselves.
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Simply titled Trump Rally, Dunne's film doesn't purport to be anything other than observational, but as he interviews dozens of the billionaire's supporters, it becomes difficult not to judge them.
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Current business email attacks that target remote workers include emails that purport to be from an out-of-office boss, warns Tim Sadler, CEO of Tessian, an anti-phishing company.
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Ah, that was ... I shouldn't expect to from real journalists or people who purport to be real journalists, but we have to maintain some level of ... We can't all become Trump.
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It is an explicit rejection of him and all other men who would dare snuff out the light within women they purport to be helping, a raging rebuke of power abuse.
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And it's trained all of us, but especially power users on the right, to see a flattened world, where sensibility and meaning matter less than how offended one can purport to be.
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This "mirror site" deception, where misleading webpages purport to be a company they're not, is among the most popular online travel scams, said Maryam Cope, vice president of government affairs at AHLA.
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The Flashman Papers purport to be written by Flashman himself—the secret, honest memoir of a garlanded rogue, discovered in a Leicestershire saleroom in 1965 and "edited" by Fraser, with helpful historical footnotes.
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It is a stark reassessment of businesses that purport to be software companies and aspire to software valuations, but don't enjoy the lush margins and effortless economies of scale that software can achieve.
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They purport to be receipts for payments made by the security branch of the Islamic State to members of Hurras al Din, a Syrian jihadist group known to be an enemy of ISIS.
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Most cases brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission involve operations that purport to be cannabis businesses but instead are schemes -- typically of the Ponzi and pump-and-dump variety, she said.
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On December 22, a couple of weeks after the anniversary of Justice League's release, Snyder went even further: He posted images of reels that purport to be his director's cut of Justice League.
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"It is utterly regrettable that a movement that began with such promise and purport to be fighting for social justice matters has now deteriorated into a group that engages in criminality," Mr Price said.
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Luckily, if I have learned anything from the longevity tests it is that I purport to be an unrealistic optimist (six years added to life expectancy) filled with utterly unfounded confidence (20 years-plus).
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The scope of their influence is obscured by the sheer number of things they do and sell, or problems they purport to be solving, and by our outdated sense of what constitutes a monopoly.
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The idea is to ensure that supply chains are what they purport to be and that labour conditions in the industry are up to snuff with an eye to fixing problems before they become scandals.
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What's more, they're worried that even if they do, they'll look like a bunch of basement-dwelling Redditors as opposed to the kind of Ubermensch they purport to be when posting from their Discus accounts.
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These groups are conjuring misinformation to work in their favor, when in fact we already offer the things they purport to be their cause — industry-leading pay, benefits, and a safe workplace for our employees.
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Such forward-looking statements do not purport to be predictions of future events or circumstances, and therefore, there can be no assurance that any forward-looking statement contained in our releases will prove to be accurate.
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But the most fitting tribute to her work would be for leaders who purport to be democrats to denounce the demonization of journalists and to let reporters perform their essential democratic role without fear or harassment.
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But I also liked how the scene highlighted that in the world of this show — and, honestly, in our world — even the guys who purport to be on the side of women are ultimately a menace.
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Barr said his letter on Sunday "was not, and did not purport to be an exhaustive recounting" of Mueller's investigation and said he believed the public should be allowed to read the report and judge for themselves.
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Pseudoscience and skin care may always be inextricable from one another; ludicrous terms like "DNA repair" and "cellular rejuvenation" may continue to abound, and products that purport to be "clinically tested" may continue to go, well, untested.
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In its conception, the Gettysburg cyclorama had presumed a kind of mastery of the event it depicted, akin to the way topographical maps (of which there are echoes in Bradford's piece) purport to be accurate and reliable.
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Mr. Zoernack's personal blog and social media accounts, and news and opinion articles that purport to be about him and his investing activities, portray a person who has been active in the markets since the early 1980s.
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For instance, a page may purport to be an organization trying to raise awareness about violence perpetrated by immigrants, but is in fact operated by a larger shadowy group attempting to steer public opinion on the topic.
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Many abortion-related regulations, referred to by advocates as TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) laws, purport to be for the patient's safety but in fact aim to close clinics and create barriers to accessing the procedure.
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But Uber obviously benefits from training its customers to use its app over all the other apps that purport to be one-stop shops for transportation, like Transit, Citymapper, various e-scooter apps, and — of course — its main rival Lyft.
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Maybe that's because Vanderpump Rules doesn't pretend to be high-minded entertainment, doesn't purport to be about fake professional endeavors, as the Housewives franchise now does, forcing the viewer to go to someone's dog funeral fundraiser or injectables fashion show.
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Clinics have trained staff and medical facilities to ensure that the procedure is as safe and effective as possible, whereas on the internet, sham pharmacies abound, and there is no guarantee that the pills are what they purport to be.
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While he does not purport to be an expert in stress and trauma prevention, we believe he will be a dedicated advocate in bridging the gap between journalists who may be reticent about seeking help and the programs we have in place.
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The leader of the Scottish Conservatives Ruth Davidson used British writer George Orwell, a darling of the left, to attack her Scottish nationalist adversaries on Monday, saying no one party could purport to be the authentic voice of the nation.
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His incoming national security team is made up of people who purport to be realists, so here are the facts: Safeguard American interests and, as a byproduct, you strengthen Israeli democracy; Israeli advocates of Greater Israel, and their American allies, subvert both.
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None of the swiping apps purport to be as scientific as the original online dating services, like Match, eHarmony, or OkCupid, which require in-depth profiles and ask users to answer questions about religion, sex, politics, lifestyle choices, and other highly personal topics.
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The situation is complicated even more by the fact that in Dutch-speaking Flanders, politicians of a nationalist hue are intensely suspicious of all forms of Muslim officialdom, local and foreign, even those who purport to be imposing a moderate line on the community.
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"New York City and New York State purport to be the progressive capital of the country, so there is a disconnect between the rhetoric and reality," said Councilman Ritchie Torres, a Bronx Democrat, who watched as a reform package he sponsored was shelved this year.
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"The money you spend on screening in order to vet your candidates and ensure that you're surrounding yourself with workers who purport to be who they say they are is really essential, especially when you consider the viral world we're living in," said Martinez.
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But as Katelyn Burns reported at Vox last month, some anti-trans groups that purport to be feminist, including one called the Women's Liberation Front, are siding with the employer in Harris Funeral Homes, arguing that giving anti-discrimination protections to trans women will harm cis women.
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Given this background, arguably no two people on YouTube are better positioned to deliberately shift their content creation away from authenticity toward fauxthenticity — toward the glossy, scripted, carefully edited presentation of reality TV. Both Paul and Mongeau purport to be fans of reality TV themselves, added Weber.
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While PredictIt does not purport to be a scientifically accurate assessment of what will happen in the presidential race, studies have shown it generates more accurate results to poll voters on who they believe will actually win an election — rather than who they want to win.
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These unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations that would have been achieved had the acquisitions actually taken place at the dates indicated and do not purport to be indicative of future financial position or operating results.
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"It is indeed disturbing to see the tech industry helping move civilization back into the fossil age even as they purport to be about cutting edge technology intended to lead us into the future," said Dr. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State.
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This clandestinely manufactured fentanyl may then be made into pills which purport to be Oxycontin, Vicodin, or some other popular prescription painkiller with a high street value among recreational users, dependent users, and legitimate pain patients who can no longer get their medications due to the new prescribing restrictions.
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Read more:The best laundry stain removers you can buyThe Laundress makes safe, eco-friendly laundry products for all types of fabrics — including ones that purport to be 'dry clean only'14 ways you're ruining your clothes without realizing it11 things you should never put in your washing machine
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O'Toole's book doesn't purport to be as exhaustive as Cooper's or Berg's; her project was born from her interest in World War I, and as she persuasively shows, American foreign policy throughout the 20th century adopted Wilson's war-forged liberal internationalism, in word if not always in deed.
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Nilva says her organization, which provides education and remediation to people 24 and younger, often helps clients remove spyware or keyloggers from their phones, get revenge porn taken down from social media platforms, or removes sockpuppet accounts that purport to be the client and spread harmful content to their friends and family.
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Some of those who set up fake accounts have been linked to IP addresses associated with Chinese intelligence agencies, while others have been set up by bogus companies, including some that purport to be in the executive recruiting business, said a senior U.S. intelligence official, who requested anonymity in order to discuss the matter.
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Game of Thrones principal cast members Kit Harington (Jon Snow) and Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister) are making exactly the same per-episode salaries and bonuses, and have been since at least the beginning of this season, according to leaked documents sent to Mashable that purport to be the actors' contracts covering Seasons 7 and 8.
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"All the Trump administration is saying is, 'there's one thing we're going to change, and that is we're no longer going to permit individual travelers to purport to be traveling to Cuba under the education exemption,'" said Harry Clark, a partner at Orrick and chair of the law firm's international trade and compliance group.
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"We believe (smuggling organizations) have been coaching individuals by saying if you come to the border with a child and you purport to be a family unit, you will not get detained and you will be released into the interior," said Gregory Nevano, assistant director at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency's Homeland Security Investigations.
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The political appointees who wrote these documents describe the law of abortion not as it is today (although that's what they purport to be describing) but as they wish it to be tomorrow — or whenever it is that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy decides to retire and thus creates a crucial vacancy for President Trump to fill.
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Then there is the Umkhonto We Sizwe Military Veterans Association, a ragtag army of ardent Zuma supporters in ill-fitting camouflage uniforms who purport to be veterans of the A.N.C.'s guerrilla war against the apartheid regime (though members in their early 20s are too young to have fought in a war that ended more than 25 years ago).
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One of the several groups that purport to be Libya's rightful government is using that dispute as a pretext to seize control of the country's oil and gas exports: It has accused the National Oil Corporation, the internationally recognized body responsible for managing these resources, of working in the service of Qatar by diverting oil revenues to it via an N.O.C. customer.
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" Bills like HB 1411 and HB 1411, which are colloquially known as Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws, purport to be protecting women while really undermining their safety: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists publicly opposes such measures "because they improperly regulate medical care and do not improve patient safety or quality of care" and, in states with few providers, "can make abortion essentially inaccessible.
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