Here a contemporary and putative correspondent of Columbus takes the spherical earth for granted. From LearnThat.org. [Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli from Letter to Fernao Martins, canon of Lisbon, June 25, 1474.]
His grasp of English is wonky, too - he constantly misuses "putative" and bafflingly deploys "rapine" as an adjective. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The foundling's putative father. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I think the major problem with Europe today is a lack of democracy, even in putative democratic countries. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Timothy McVeigh Was No Libertarian: The Fallacy of Conflating Two Very Different Types of “Anti-Government” Movements] Reference
A marriage of this latter kind is called a putative marriage. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Later Iran would be increasingly identified as a putative rationale for extending it into the Persian. From Wordnik.com. [PSI, US 1,000-Ship Navy: Control Of World's Oceans, Prelude To War] Reference
In essence, the current evolutionary approach is goal-oriented, namely the putative fitness advantage of future generations is taken as the goal. From Wordnik.com. [Albert de Roos: A design hypothesis for the evolution of the nucleus] Reference
(A) Height image of long straight fibrils with occasional 'putative' looking oligomers. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
A judge nevertheless decreed that she was his "putative" widow, and she went henceforth by Arlene Meraux. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference
(C-D) Height images of long, straight and circular fibrils, fragments, and both clustered and scattered 'putative' oligomers. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
The striking thing about Peter Robinson's welcome of the 'putative' PM (Gordon is gone now, in every sense that matters), was the statesman-like tone. From Wordnik.com. [Slugger O'Toole] Reference
Then he examines the putative diamonds through his eyepiece. From Wordnik.com. [DIAMONDS: ROMANCING THE STONE] Reference
Three years out, the GOP field does not offer a putative nominee. From Wordnik.com. [Why Dick Cheney Should Run in 2012] Reference
If Clinton is worried, so is his putative heir to the White House, Al Gore. From Wordnik.com. [Al's Worst Nightmare] Reference
So Tory Tony should present no problems for a putative Prime Minister Cameron. From Wordnik.com. [Blair for President] Reference
This has always been a nation willing to sell out its past for putative progress. From Wordnik.com. [Look At What They've Done] Reference
The alleged solutions have more potential for catastrophe than the putative problem. From Wordnik.com. [Why So Gloomy?] Reference
Wall Street and the business community, Bush's putative allies, are confused and angry. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Called 'Nunu'] Reference
In 1992 I spent part of the day with the wife of the putative Democratic candidate for president. From Wordnik.com. [THE SAME OLD (NEW) HILLARY] Reference
So too would the court's putative moderates, O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy, who joined Scalia in 1990. From Wordnik.com. [A Chicken on Every Altar?] Reference
If he continues to stonewall, he could find himself jettisoned by putative friends like Russia and China. From Wordnik.com. [SURVIVAL MODE?] Reference
No one credited Vice President Gennady Yanayev, the coup's putative leader, with enough spine for the role. From Wordnik.com. [The Coup Makers' Secrets] Reference
Blair's "putative successor," he said, "does not yet qualify in my view as a practitioner of reform and change.". From Wordnik.com. [The Cameron Effect] Reference
Fighting words like those will infuriate Brownites, even though there is no other "putative successor" in the wings. From Wordnik.com. [The Cameron Effect] Reference
And the Dow can reach record highs while vacancy rates are increasing in the putative heart of the market, lower Manhattan. From Wordnik.com. [West Of Wall Street] Reference
Succeeding him as president is David Westin, formerly president the entire network and now Arledge's putative heir apparent. From Wordnik.com. [There's Still Plenty Of Roone At The Top] Reference
It turned NEC chairman Laura Tyson, a Berkeley economist unaccustomed to refereeing political spats, into a putative peacemaker. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle Of The Bobs] Reference
Beyond the putative transgressions of one psychiatrist, there was a larger question of whether the dead retain any right to privacy. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets Of The Couch] Reference
New name: Will the new order be much different from the old one as crooks and commissars transform themselves into putative democrats?. From Wordnik.com. [The Cold War Is Gone; the Thriller Lives On] Reference
The painfully slow-moving talks have been conducted under a putative deadline of 2007, which is when U.S. negotiating authority expires. From Wordnik.com. [PETER THE GREAT] Reference
Finally, some critics will argue that if the deal works, China, a putative 21st-century superpower, will ultimately come out a stronger nation. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale Of Two Cities: Washington] Reference
Here is the definitive narrative of the men who rigged Wall Street in the '80s, and the federal prosecutors who brought them to putative justice. From Wordnik.com. [Wall Street: A Greed Apart] Reference
In a survey, Cade? 's executives found that almost 45 percent of their users didn't even speak English, the putative lingua franca of cyberspace. From Wordnik.com. [A Regional Race Into Cyberspace] Reference
The New England Patriots brushed aside two putative championship contenders, the Seattle Seahawks and New York Jets, to extend their record NFL winning streak to 21. From Wordnik.com. [Perfecto] Reference
He has said Jerusalem should be the undivided capital of Israel, while Europeans have long ago awarded half of Jerusalem to the Palestinians as capital of their putative state. From Wordnik.com. [What If McCain Wins?] Reference
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