| The people and the communities that local government purports to serve will be the real losers if this fails to happen. |
| He is held out as a director by the company, claims and purports to be a director, although never actually or validly appointed as such. |
| It purports to be a tale about a man who inveigles himself into a false identity, but this aspect of the plot never emerges clearly. |
| By design, neither set of rules purports to override existing international water agreements. |
| But then, the intelligence quotient purports to measure the ratio of cognitive age to chronological age. |
| We are suggesting that nationalist xenophobia is precisely a function of that which purports to bring us all together. |
