What's the difference between expressly and purport?

Expressly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an express manner; in direct terms; with distinct purpose; particularly; as, a book written expressly for the young.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These limitations expressly declared in the ISO 2631 guide are also implicit in the other regulations proposed.
  • (2) GNM accepts no responsibility for any costs associated with the prize that are not expressly included in the prize.
  • (3) The document was expressly designed to be shared with legislators who did not serve on the panel; it appears that a corresponding document for the Senate in 2011 was made available to all senators.
  • (4) This method of quantitative DNase I footprinting is demonstrated to be a useful technique for the measurement of drug affinities to specific binding sites on DNA oligomers which are designed and synthesized expressly for this purpose.
  • (5) Cameron says the Bank of England said expressly last week that there isn't a housing bubble.
  • (6) But right now none of that is the problem: the problem is that this amendment expressly removes the right of organisations such as Marie Stopes and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service to impart information.
  • (7) Mass killings of Tutsis, expressly ordered by the Congolese president, Laurent Kabila, have occurred in western and eastern Congo.
  • (8) The amendment expressly excludes people who have been given adverse security assessments by ASIO from receiving protection visas.
  • (9) Misunderstandings about these and other terms arise when they are implied; therefore, they should be defined expressly.
  • (10) During the proceedings at the International Court of Justice relating to the seizure of the documents, the Australian solicitor general, Justin Gleeson, expressly flagged the possibility that Witness K and others involved in the case could be prosecuted under section 91.1.
  • (11) Informed consent of the person involved is the most important justification; as a rule the consent must be signified specifically and expressly both for tests and for the breach of confidentiality.
  • (12) Furthermore, I was expressly forbidden, by the BCF from riding in the senior women's Championship event.
  • (13) It expressly says it is imposing no such requirements.
  • (14) It was only done - indeed expressly done - on the basis that Labor might do better at the election.
  • (15) Blair expressly denied saying this, but Chilcot subsequently referred to "the sort of language that Rawnsley cites or that we have seen in the note you sent to President Bush", as if they amount to the same thing.
  • (16) The decision to ban a whole class of substances, then specify which ones are permitted, is contrary to centuries of British common law under which citizens have been allowed to do or consume anything unless expressly forbidden.
  • (17) The examinations they effect in this framework cannot be based on a holistic medical orientation, because our constitution has expressly excluded the private sphere of the individual (self-management domain).
  • (18) By using programs written expressly for this data base, we can display a birth weight frequency plot of the entire data set in under 65 seconds on an IBM-compatible PC-AT.
  • (19) Uefa says there is “little doubt” the funds influence transfer policy even though third-party influence is expressly forbidden by Fifa rules.
  • (20) A new slide-making instrument, developed expressly to enhance the spreading of chromosomes from metaphases released from small tissue pieces, is responsible for the increase yield of analysable metaphases in this protocol.

Purport


Definition:

  • (n.) Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.
  • (n.) Disguise; covering.
  • (n.) To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three strains of C. burnetii were studied because of the purported propensity of each strain to cause acute or chronic disease and to be resistant or susceptible to antibiotics.
  • (2) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
  • (3) We have studied the effect of a calcium ionophore, A23187, and the purported calmodulin inhibitors, calmidazolium and chlorpromazine, on direct intercellular communication between smooth muscle cells in the myometrium of delivering rats.
  • (4) It exploded when leading daily El Pais published copies of account ledgers purportedly showing irregular payments to top party members including Rajoy, its leader since 2004.
  • (5) Every story evolves with the speed of fact, not commentary or speculation.” In the case of MH17, Storyful published a blog outlining the key steps it took in verifying the information it gathered from social media, including searching through Twitter posts associated with the Donetsk People’s Republic – many of them since deleted – looking for historical references to surface-to-air missile systems, geolocating YouTube videos purporting to show the missile system in eastern Ukraine prior to the crash and verifying videos from the crash site.
  • (6) The sigma subunit regions purportedly involved in core enzyme binding and DNA promoter recognition were also highly conserved, despite the lack of a DNA promoter consensus sequence between E. coli and C. trachomatis promoters and the inability of E. coli holoenzyme to specifically transcribe chlamydial genes.
  • (7) The traffic was 10% higher than for the site's previous busiest day in the UK, which came on 9 May when the media reported on the creation of an account on the site which purported to name those who had taken out superinjunctions to prevent details being reported.
  • (8) Chaytor had claimed £12,925 between 2005 and 2006 for renting a flat in Regency Street, Westminster, producing a tenancy agreement purporting to show that he was paying £1,175 a month in rent to the landlord, Sarah Elizabeth Rastrick.
  • (9) Calls are also sensitive to a variety of purported anxiolytic and anxiogenic drugs, including the benzodiazepines, serotonin agonists, and ligands at the NMDA-glycine receptor complex.
  • (10) These findings are most consistent with a generalized abnormality in complex information processing and would not support theories purporting fundamental deficits in attention or information acquisition.
  • (11) But even more than the state’s failure to rescue the 21 hostages, who were believed to have been taken in separate incidents during December and January, Egyptians are criticising Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for ordering airstrikes on purported Isis hideouts in Libya without a clear plan to evacuate Egyptians living in the country.
  • (12) The possibility that receptors may be so placed in other species warrants further work especially in those purported to lack any receptor.
  • (13) And it helps you spot phishing emails, because if an email appears in your shopping account purporting to come from your bank, for example, you'll immediately know it's a fake.
  • (14) They want to send a very clear message to China that they are serious about this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest This image from the US navy purportedly shows Chinese dredging vessels in the waters around Mischief reef in the disputed Spratly archipelago in May 2015.
  • (15) Cell-mediated cytolytic (CMC) responses resulted from immunizations between rat strains purported to be identical at Ag-B, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), but differing at other loci not linked to Ag-B.
  • (16) Because, you see, I have a hard time understanding why my wanting to stand up for democratic principles makes me unpatriotic, while the ones calling themselves patriots seem to think so little of the people and the principles that comprise the country they purport to love.
  • (17) At this time the information on these purported interactions is quite limited and there are far more questions than answers.
  • (18) A court in Egypt has sentenced eight men to three years in prison for appearing in a video that purported to show a gay wedding.
  • (19) Cognitive therapy is often used in treating attention-deficit-disordered (ADD) children because of its purported ability to address this population's attentional deficits and behavioral difficulties and to create durable therapeutic effects.
  • (20) This is a case report of a purported panencephalopathic type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob (C-J) disease in a 61-year-old Japanese farmer.