Sentence examples for ostensible strategy from inspiring English sources

Before the RCN play, Allen's ostensible strategy was to buy rundown cable systems, upgrade them to carry two-way digital cable signals and use them to provide Internet access, interactive programming and high-speed data services in geographic areas where AT&T, Time Warner, Cox Communications cox and others weren't competing for eyeballs.

We, however, quickly appreciated the challenges of adopting a strategy whose ostensible aim was antithetical to our own.

Indeed, throughout the strategy document the ostensible purpose for having a military -- to provide national security -- repeatedly takes a backseat to promoting the economic interests of the U.S. elite that profits from empire.

He delivered a couple of lines himself during a scene from "Pirates of Penzance" with Mr. Sorenson and Ms. Dahl, and then, during "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from the same opera, leapt up and down in a pantomime of hysteria at Mr. Suart's ostensible failure to come up with a rhyme for "strategy".

The idea seems to be to create a false equivalence between Pakistan's well-thought-out, decades-old strategy of harboring the Afghan jihadists and the ostensible presence of the TTP elements who escaped from Pakistan military operations to the unruly Afghan frontier regions where Kabul's writ is skimpy at best.

The ostensible reason for the visit is two regional conferences that will give him a chance to promote his strategy of pivoting to Asia: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the East Asia Summit.

The documents, made available by an organization called WikiLeaks, suggest that Pakistan, an ostensible ally of the United States, allows representatives of its spy service to meet directly with the Taliban in secret strategy sessions to organize networks of militant groups that fight against American soldiers in Afghanistan, and even hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders.

The ostensible reason — get this!

At least, ostensible ones.

His ostensible mandate was reform.

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.