Sentence examples for ostensible land from inspiring English sources

The soaring words of the Declaration of Independence caused many people to pause over the spectacle of humankind being treated like property in the ostensible land of liberty.

The ostensible ground for delay is over the newcomers' role.

The ostensible reason, state officials said, was to address the tax collection as part of a package of issues the state faced with its Indian tribes, including various land claims and the establishment of six Indian-owned casinos.

Bebop is tense and roiling with the very horrors and contradictions of ostensible freedom in a land of relentless racism.

This race to the bottom has the effect of all but eliminating any genuine economic gains the ostensible winner can claim from landing the plant.

The former list includes the three ostensible Oscar front-runners: "La La Land," "Moonlight" and "Manchester by the Sea". .

American troops landed in Cuba in ostensible support of a Cuban separatist movement that had rebelled against Spain 3 years earlier.

China recently established a larger army garrison and expanded the size of an ostensible legislature to govern a speck of land, known as Yongxing Island, more than 200 miles southeast of Hainan.

This is where songs that have been disowned by their ostensible homes but provide uncomplicated pleasure often land — embraced widely even as they're kept at arms length locally.

And if nothing else, the land of six million Jews--an ostensible democracy in the Middle East--was now our greatest ally.

Moments that should be emotional don't quite land, and despite him being our ostensible protagonist, Joe feels like he's living perpetually at arm's length, both from the other characters and those of us in the audience.