Sentence examples for ostensible willingness from inspiring English sources
Wal-Mart, long criticized for its treatment of workers in the United States and its ostensible willingness to overlook violations abroad, has in recent years offered a series of environmental and labor initiatives.
Nor is willingness apparent.
He has been popular, too, because of his tough line on "security" issues, meaning questions of crime and public safety — his willingness to expel illegal-immigrant Roma was the ostensible subject of our interview last fall.
The Rangers have been criticized most for their willingness to make the contract so huge without having any ostensible competition.
And the risk that such a situation will materialize is not merely a function of the willingness of an ill-disposed officialdom to exploit the protective screen of ostensible legislative purpose to bypass the procedural limitations on governmental collection of information in the criminal process.
The ostensible reason — get this!
At least, ostensible ones.
The ostensible reason: so-called Communist influence.
His ostensible mandate was reform.
His willingness to attack.
His ostensible crimes were espionage and terrorism.
