Sentence examples for ostensible basis from inspiring English sources
It is always worth remembering that the ostensible basis of the supposed "scandal of the century" is bogus.
The initials refer to Robert Louis Stevenson, whose classic of juvenile-adventure lit is the ostensible basis for the new animated feature from Disney.
The ostensible ground for delay is over the newcomers' role.
Psychologists theorized mental illness as evolutionary reversion; criminologists defined the "criminal type" as a throwback; social policies were defended or attacked on the basis of their ostensible likelihood to further or stunt evolution; and even sin came to be described as "a falling back into the animal condition".3 Evolutionary theory set the terms of debate in deaf education as well.
But in an interview at its headquarters in Tripoli, a militia spokesman criticized his ostensible boss.
The filmmakers mistake imagination and fantasy for willful obfuscations of something called, with a quasi-religious intonation, "reality" — and in these films, the ostensible "reality" is rendered doubly "real" because of their basis in the filmmakers' experience or in history.
The filmmakers mistake imagination and fantasy for willful obfuscations of something called, with a quasi-religious intonation, "reality"—and in these films, the ostensible "reality" is rendered doubly "real" because of their basis in the filmmakers' experience or in history.
Our results are the first to demonstrate that the ostensible honesty found in patients with Parkinson's disease has a neurobiological basis, and they provide direct neuropsychological evidence of the brain mechanisms crucial for human deceptive behaviour.
The ostensible answer would be equal weights, which is the foundation of existing equal-priorities scoring methods.
Rosenstein said that disputes with Congress over Justice Department documents ― the ostensible reason some Republicans are targeting Rosenstein ― needed to be worked out on a "case-by-case" basis.
The ostensible reason — get this!
