Sentence examples for ostensible intention from inspiring English sources
Their ostensible intention was to protest the city's decision to remove a monument to the Confederate hero Robert E. Lee.
I might not have been paying attention at school when studying it, but apparently there is a case for considering that "To His Coy Mistress" actually means the very opposite of the poet's ostensible intention.
Professed goals of punishment, norms constraining the use of power in the pursuit of these goals, the aspiration for justice in punishment all these, if Foucault is right, turn out to mask other (not necessarily conscious) intentions among reformers that belie the ostensible rationality (not to say rationalization) of their aims since the Enlightenment.
With Romney using every campaign stop to reiterate his intention to declare China a currency manipulator, the Global Times pointed to an ostensible consensus that his "arrogant comments lack basic common sense".
It's strange, then, that he's recently declared his intention to retire – strange, too, that he's given his physical condition as the ostensible reason.
It appears, however, that the ostensible goal of the opposition is to disrupt not to discuss, leading one to seriously question the true intention of the health care reform countermovement.
The ostensible reason — get this!
At least, ostensible ones.
The past weeks have seen challenges based on ostensible felony status in Florida, ostensible deaths in North Carolina and ostensible address problems in Ohio, among others.
