Sentence examples for it ostensibly from inspiring English sources

"Are you delaying taking it out of earnings?" A clue to how close to the edge Petrohawk is skating can be found on page 65 of the company's annual report, where it says it would have been forced to write down the value of its $3 billion in reserves by $224 million had it used natural gas prices as of Dec. 31, 2006, when it ostensibly closed its books.

Most cultures have taboos against close inbreeding (Brown 1991) and most nonhuman animals appear to avoid it, ostensibly as an adaptation to prevent its deleterious effects (Pusey and Wolf 1996).

A debate isn't serious simply because it ostensibly deals with complicated subjects.

The public it ostensibly serves has been exploited for 20 years.

It ostensibly calls for military victory over the alliance between autocracy and jihad.

It ostensibly has no plot and has the feel of a documentary.

It is ostensibly about mountain climbing but it is about far more than that.

It was, ostensibly, Red Hat dipping its toe into the platform-as-a-service waters.

The Americans reckon that, although it is ostensibly intended to make money laundering harder, it actually undermines international efforts to crack down on the crime.

It is ostensibly aimed at making life easier for business travellers and investors, but it also has broad implications for tourism.

It was ostensibly a long-planned move.