Sentence examples for ostensibly achieved from inspiring English sources

Now a lawyer for the World Bank, Urania has ostensibly achieved enormous success in her life, but she remains haunted by the past.

Over the past few years, for example, on several popular one-hour procedurals on major networks, dynamic, strong, capable women characters, characters who've ostensibly achieved the personal and professional goals the feminist movement strove for years ago, reach out and slap male lead characters who've "misbehaved".

Dan Snyder just wants to litigate the Washington City Paper out of business, which would ostensibly achieve the same result as "firing Dave McKenna".

So he sets up Internet.org, ostensibly to achieve that laudable aim.

Case studies included councils in which every secondary school manages its own admissions and where some non-denominational schools admit pupils in up to nine "bands" of ability – ostensibly to achieve a balanced intake – and also by aptitude, catchment area, feeder school and distance.

Tea Party extremism -- for example, the bizarre threat last year to the full faith and credit of the United States in trying to block a raise of the debt ceiling; and the shutdown of the government, ostensibly to achieve the impossible goal of destroying the Affordable Care Act through such an action -- has been responsible for a slew of national self-inflicted wounds to all Americans.

The stadium financing legislation that the authority achieved ostensibly for Northern Virginia now also applies to Norfolk.

In the morning session England achieved the ostensibly impossible task of putting the foot on the Australian throat while simultaneously rubbing their nose in the dirt.

Ostensibly this is to be achieved by €130bn from the eurozone and the IMF, combined with swingeing spending cuts and tax rises and a write-down of debt by the country's private creditors through a debt swap pact halving the burden from €200bn to €100bn.

The third and longest battle to take place at the Belgian city of Ypres, Passchendaele was ostensibly an Allied victory, but it was achieved at enormous cost for a piece of ground that would be vacated the following year.

Instead, he wants to know why Bach's works have achieved such resonance through time — how this ostensibly conservative Lutheran composer "writes music that chimes with the sensibilities of a much later age".