supposed

"I find that women, as they age, get booked into a certain category and you're supposed to slow down and you're not supposed to do this or that and, to me, that's totally wrong."

"I saw the change before my own eyes. She felt powerless and betrayed. That assault shattered her faith in the set-up that was supposed to look after her."

Sociology is supposed to supply quantifiable kinds of self-knowledge about life in the mass, but it led the academic drift from describing social behavior to pathologizing political wrongthink.

Pretty soon Roz’s internal parts were strewn across the table, and nobody knew where anything was supposed to go.

The Supreme Court is not a fact-finding body — it is supposed to defer to the factual findings of lower courts and Congress.