Sentence examples for ostensibly able to from inspiring English sources

A study released in 2000 by the Investor Responsibility Research Center, which studies governance trends, found that at 39 Internet companies, an average of 53percentt of board members were considered "independent" of management, and, in turn, ostensibly able to more dispassionately monitor company activity.

One of its biggest differentiators, it says, is that its process is "background blind," meaning it's ostensibly able to get engineers in front of companies that might not otherwise be interested in them based on their past employers or education.

All high school students would ostensibly be able to stay through graduation.

Housing associations will be effectively forced to sell their (social) housing stock while councils will, similarly, have to offload high-value properties – ostensibly to be able to replace homes sold by the associations.

Ostensibly, we should be able to distinguish the different scents that make them up, but this isn't always the case.

The jury is also out on whether some of these new bastions of ostensibly democratic leftism will be able to vote out the charismatic figures they voted in; Chavez apparently has no intention of vacating the presidential palace, and of course the Castros have dug in.

In addition these simulations are able to unify ostensibly divergent experimental data in the literature.

"How much inequality can we have and still call ourselves a democracy, where ostensibly, everybody is supposed to be able to participate?" Michener asks rhetorically.

But no one (and certainly not Maria Miller, the ostensibly relevant secretary of state) seems able to negotiate a compromise version on behalf of Dave, Nick and Ed.

By setting her play in New York, in a show-business milieu ostensibly free of prejudice, she was able to expose the hidden biases that are hard to pinpoint and harder to fight.

Then, a second report suggested HTC was also scrapping plans for a future large-screened Windows Phone 8 handset, ostensibly because it wouldn't be able to support high-enough screen resolution to make it worthwhile.