Sentence examples for ostensible resolve from inspiring English sources

Despite this ostensible resolve, Mr. Latham's announcement on the troops in Iraq served to underline hints of ambivalence toward the alliance with the United States.

Although not in attendance at the meeting convened at Annapolis in September 1786 for the ostensible purpose of resolving interstate commercial disputes, Jay anticipated by almost a month the address to the states drafted by Alexander Hamilton and adopted on 14 September.

The ostensible reason for the joint patrols was to help resolve issues related to Chinese tourists.

In his historical account of the rise of managed care, Gary Belkin situates managed care not as an inevitable response to cost control and economic inefficiency, but within a history of appeals to standardised and ostensible objective measures and models of human behaviour to resolve contentious issues in complex and modern capitalist democratic societies [ 37].

The ostensible hope is that the negotiations will themselves help to resolve the Cypriot conflict.

For four years he had deftly juggled between his ostensible commitment to the two-state solution and his dogged resolve to do nothing about it, avoiding the deep revulsion that the two-state formula triggers among large parts of his own constituency, for religious and nationalistic reasons, something that would also scare off middle-of-the-road voters.

Now Abadi, an ostensible western ally, is again on the verge of inviting Iran in to help resolve an Iraqi problem.

The ostensible reason — get this!

At least, ostensible ones.

The ostensible reason: so-called Communist influence.

His ostensible mandate was reform.