Sentence examples for even if ostensibly from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lloreda, Colombia's Defense Minister, who expressed pessimism that his President's gesture would produce a peace accord, said in an interview that Colombia needed to strengthen the military to defeat the rebels and that American aid, even if ostensibly devoted to narcotics, helped that effort.

Organized prayer at a school-sponsored event -- even if ostensibly the private choice of a student speaker -- amounts to an official endorsement of religion that is inherently coercive of unwilling participants, Justice John Paul Stevens said in the 6-to-3 decision.

Even if an ostensibly staggering purchase price when looking just at this year's or next year's financials, United Tech's CEO said he was in it for the long term.

Even if Hamas ostensibly agrees not to engage in any political activity which could drag Jordan into direct conflict with Israel, Hamas is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Without some discussion on this point I suspect a lot of non-auditory readers will be wondering "how can you know if a mouse is experiencing tinnitus?" Some discussion, even if it ostensibly points out weaknesses of the model, will reassure readers and put the paper in context.

Use of epistemic community actors revealed layers of contextual analysis that inform policymaking, even in ostensibly technical areas.

Even if agency fees ostensibly fund only collective bargaining, when the bargaining is with states and cities it necessarily affects the size and cost of government, which are questions of public policy.

But even if care is ostensibly "free," the patient and her family may still incur substantial "informal" charges---costs of supplies and medications as well as bribes and gratuities for access and services that can dwarf other expenditures [ 138].

Nearly every VAP interviewed for this article expressed regret about their research productivity during their VAP appointments, even if research time was ostensibly part of the deal.

Even if some societies remain ostensibly democratic, the increasing efficiency of algorithms will still shift more and more authority from individual humans to networked machines.

One tip off, and worth checking out, is whether you find your mobile phone surprisingly warm, or even hot, at times when you really were not using it for much of anything, or even if it has been ostensibly turned "off".