Sentence examples for ostensible purpose from inspiring English sources

Its ostensible purpose was to eliminate Palestinian strongholds in southern Lebanon.

The ostensible purpose of these NOCs is the development and promotion of the Olympic movement.

The dictionary's ostensible purpose of settling and "fixing" the language was a chimera.

Jeff is further distracted from his ostensible purpose by the beautiful Laura, an American gallerist.

"The phones have an ostensible purpose, an excuse for carrying them around," Dr. Miller said.

The ostensible purpose of this proposed vandalism is to reduce the costs to business.

The ostensible purpose of the tour was to show Christie one of Booker's methods of combatting crime.

Though the meat's ostensible purpose was to nourish, the real aim, it now appears, was to assassinate.

The ostensible purpose is to raise revenue to help make up what has become an annual shortfall for transportation financing.

Chalabi joined forces with Sadr in 2004 and 2005, for the ostensible purpose of coaxing Sadr into the political mainstream.

The ostensible purpose of the project is to provide both humans and Qanska with useful information about each other.