putative

• “Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani showed up in New Hampshire on the former Massachusetts governor's magical day, underscoring why Romney is plagued by the word "putative," which almost always appears before "front-runner.”

  The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post

• “I think the major problem with Europe today is a lack of democracy, even in putative democratic countries.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Timothy McVeigh Was No Libertarian: The Fallacy of Conflating Two Very Different Types of “Anti-Government” Movements

• “Just because I disagree with a certain putative means to reduce the number of abortions (and it is hardly well established that government distribution of birth control reduces the number of abortions), it does not follow that I am not actually prolife.”

  Matthew Yglesias » The Party of Teen Pregnancy

• “Others, like William of Conches and the Arabic doctors, demonstrated an interest in putative astrological influences on the fetus's development. 42 But by the mid-thirteenth century, Vincent of Beauvais followed his source, the Cistercian Helinand of Froidmont, a twelfth-century critic of astrology, and strongly attacked the belief in the planets 'power to determine sex differentiation in the womb. 43 Medical writers generally avoided the question of celestial interference and concentrated on the positive and negative influences of terrestrial bodies, especially the maternal body encasing the fetus.”

  A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

• “Coburn, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia and Mike Crapo of Idaho, calling the putative deal a blatant violation of the group's "no new taxes" pledge, which most Republican lawmakers have signed.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Talks to Cut Deficit Stumble

• “Later Iran would be increasingly identified as a putative rationale for extending it into the Persian”

  PSI, US 1,000-Ship Navy: Control Of World's Oceans, Prelude To War

• “Perhaps the specter of losing the nomination after being dubbed the putative front runner, or of gaining the nomination in a bitterly divisive nomination contest then losing the presidency, might be likened to a Pyrrhic victory.”

  Gloria Feldt: Which Greek Tragedy are Hillary and Bill Enacting?

• “In essence, the current evolutionary approach is goal-oriented, namely the putative fitness advantage of future generations is taken as the goal.”

  Albert de Roos: A design hypothesis for the evolution of the nucleus

• “According to Bondi's theory, the universe as far back into the past as we might look would always look the same; there was no evolution, there could be no “fossils”, as Bondi called putative evidence of a universe different in the past from our present one.”

  Cosmology: Methodological Debates in the 1930s and 1940s

• “A marriage of this latter kind is called a putative marriage.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy

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