Sentence examples for ostensible goals from inspiring English sources

Our ostensible goals in Afghanistan have to do with Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

One of the ostensible goals of the war in Iraq was to ensure freedom for the Iraqi people.

Their ostensible goals, however, often seemed secondary to the business of jockeying for power or legitimacy in a "community" where the most prevalent attitude toward the boycott has been ambivalence.

Mr. Obama might have done more to make short-term stimulus — like further reductions to the payroll tax, which would would not have violated the Republicans' ostensible goals — the price for long-term austerity.

His ostensible goals are to attain tenure for his androgynous office mate and to mediate some sort of truce between those who read books and those who apperceive texts.

With the bestselling Bloodlands, he was able to link chronologically the 16-odd million victims of Stalin and Hitler while emphasising how different were the ostensible goals of each regime.

This is sometimes called "critical thinking," an ostensible goal of education in a democracy.

We stop paying attention to our ostensible goal as we throw ourselves at the ground.

The ostensible goal is to move much of the processing from the PC to the Internet.

The ostensible goal is to help the parents understand what their children are experiencing.

Mr. Brooks's ostensible goal is "quality," but this corporate supply-chain model would diminish, not increase, knowledge.