Sentence examples for ostensible argument from inspiring English sources

When I read opinion pieces by insiders, I often find the ostensible argument less interesting than what is taken for granted.

I know the ostensible arguments against fixing the anomaly.

WASHINGTON — The ostensible question at a Supreme Court argument on Monday was how large a role the jury must play in setting fines against corporations found guilty of environmental crimes.

Don Quixote has just defended the reality of ostensible fiction by arguing from the existence of relics.

Their arguments, set out with ostensible sweet reason by the RHS presidents, are that academic publishing as currently constituted guarantees high standards; that any change affecting costs and benefits needs a lead time far longer than the one year proposed, and that the change would unreasonably restrict academics in their choice of where to publish.

While bickering over posts in the cabinet and their distribution among sects and political powers was the ostensible reason for the delay, the arguments underlined a country deeply divided over questions of ideology, the power of foreign patrons and which community would hold sway over Lebanon's political landscape.

Replies have claimed that the argument only requires one to consider an ostensible state of affairs, without having to concede initially whether the state of affairs is possible or impossible.

Romney has made the ostensible lack of an Obama agenda the heart of his closing argument.

In some introductory philosophy textbooks and anthologies, the arguments for God's existence are presented as ostensible proofs which are then shown to be fallible.

Their ostensible grasps at scientific credibility crumble upon even a cursory inspection, and their odious arguments, bereft of facts, should not be allowed set the tone of the conversation.

The ostensible reason — get this!