Sentence examples for in ostensible from inspiring English sources

First, Athens undertook a great and disastrous expedition to Egypt (460 454), in ostensible continuance of the fight against Persia.

When a lawyer asked him if someone had been complicit in ostensible wrongdoing, Mr. Scheck had a lawyer's answer.

American troops landed in Cuba in ostensible support of a Cuban separatist movement that had rebelled against Spain 3 years earlier.

Democrats have not flipped a congressional seat blue all decade in ostensible swing states such as North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

A professional musician, he has apparently accumulated a fortune – having been placed in ostensible control of a series of assets worth at least $100m, possibly more.

They are settings where no one knows your name (except the front desk, which uses it at every opportunity in ostensible celebration of your existence), and where service people pick up after you and offer you delicacies.

In Mexico, the vast majority of crimes go unpunished, countless government officials participate in organized crime, and the police and military have been deployed in massive numbers in an ostensible fight against the cartels.

We know the guy is violent, but the thing that set his conflict with Jesse in motion –his ostensible abuse of his wife – still appears to have been a misunderstanding over some rather intense sexual proclivities, something he tries to explain to his son in one of the most awkward conversations this side of Freaks and Geeks.

Katkin and his son, Tom, became favourite subjects, even when the focus was elsewhere - for example, in the ostensible portrait of a stone lion in Trafalgar Square, perfectly brought down to scale by a pram parked in front of it with Tom's eyes peeping over the side (1970).

In 2003, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, in an ostensible streamlining effort, eliminated several positions on the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Trust in government to take the guns out of the hands of criminals dissipated, replaced by a paranoid distrust of government, leading to a virtual — and yet-unabated — nationwide passion for vigilante justice, in the form of rampant gun ownership in the ostensible interest of self-defense.