Sentence examples for ostensible intent from inspiring English sources

"It is an understatement to say that this judge has expressed firm views on the city's ostensible intent to discriminate," city lawyers said of the judge, Nicholas G. Garaufis of Federal District Court in Brooklyn.

The ostensible intent was to prevent a wall of high-end luxury condos from sprouting along the city's waterfront.

Kaufman famously appeared on the comedy institution's first episode, lip-syncing the chorus of the Mighty Mouse theme song while taking unnecessary water breaks with the ostensible intent of soothing his vocal cords.

The ostensible purpose was to preserve our homegrown classics.

"Pop," first performed in 2002, is a little like a compilation of dance excerpts from a feel-good musical: there may be an ostensible setting, but there is no real intent to illuminate dramatic situations, explore human emotions or push choreographic boundaries.

In Hitler's view, the British-brokered peace, although favourable to the ostensible German demands, was a diplomatic defeat which spurred his intent of limiting British power to pave the way for the eastern expansion of Germany.

By the end of the book, which Bolaño wrote in either 1981 or 1982, the mysteries remain unsolved, the ostensible victim may or may not have suffered from foul play and the protagonist intent on figuring out who done it (if anyone did anything at all) appears incapable of doing so.

The ostensible reason — get this!

At least, ostensible ones.

The ostensible reason: so-called Communist influence.

His ostensible mandate was reform.