Sentence examples for ostensible effort from inspiring English sources
The messages calling people to action urged protesters to shout, "We want food, we want work, we want housing, we want fairness," an ostensible effort to tap into popular discontent over inflation and soaring real estate prices.
But it also isn't a "mid-career retrospective", as MoMA has eagerly billed it, and any ostensible effort to give music the same consideration as painting or sculpture seems not to have taken place.
Neither Iran nor North Korea has shown anywhere near the subtlety and technique in online offensive skills that the United States and Israel demonstrated with Olympic Games, the ostensible effort to disable Iran's nuclear enrichment plants with an online weapon that destabilized hundreds of centrifuges, destroying many of them.
Here's how that sham works: in an ostensible effort to keep government small, caps have been put on how many civil servants government can hire.
In an ostensible effort to tackle the menace posed by organized crime within Amsterdam, city authorities are cracking down on the prevalence of brothels and drug shops in the red light district.
In an apparent effort to build ostensible ties to the church, Mr. Follieri also met with clergy and traveled with a monsignor.
In 2003, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, in an ostensible streamlining effort, eliminated several positions on the Board of Immigration Appeals.
The ostensible cause of Mrs Bandaranayake's impeachment was alleged corruption.
The ostensible aim of such efforts has not only been to rectify past wrongs and give those who have been wronged their due, but to heal deep and sometimes longstanding wounds caused by such wrongs as well.
In his book One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan, Thomas Pegram cites several instances of local chapters, or "klaverns," shilling out money for the ostensible public good, "in an effort to legitimize its credentials as a quasi-public organization".
Both visionary efforts passed through their ostensible object to achieve union as an embrace of ghosts.
