Sentence examples for ostensibly attached from inspiring English sources

During the Heian period (794 1185) professional troupes, ostensibly attached to temples and shrines to draw crowds for festival days, combined these lively stage arts, now called sarugaku (literally, monkey or mimic music), with dancing to drums from dengaku and began to perform short plays consisting of alternate sections of dialogue, mimicry, singing, and dancing.

Claiming that the Obama presidency would sink without signing into law its "landmark" healthcare bill, many a progressive worked to throw the president a rope; while ostensibly attached to a political life preserver, the rope was actually fastened to a huge deadweight anvil.

Further, the board fears that restricting a party's contributions for a candidate ostensibly not attached to that party may not hold up in court, something the commission does not dispute.

Even the Palestinian terrorist groups that are ostensibly secular — those attached to the Fatah movement of Yasir Arafat — have elevated childhood martyrdom to a sacrament.

African countries leap at Chinese aid because it ostensibly comes with fewer strings attached than the World Bank's money.

Private capital investment in property is seen as safe, because it is attached to assets of ostensibly ever-rising value.

"There are sentiments attached to memorials and these are ostensibly memorials to Dalit leaders.

A few months later, faced with the prospect that the Cross of Fire would be banned by the government as a paramilitary organization, he founded a new and ostensibly more democratic party, the French Social Party, which he publicly claimed was "firmly attached to republican liberties".

Muirfield is ostensibly a snooty lunch and drinking club which, unfortunately, happens to have a wonderful links attached.

Tubes attached.

In 1995, President Liamine Zeroual, wanting to woo the Kabyle political parties, set up a body attached to the presidency that had the task of introducing Berber teaching in schools.The new Arabisation law, voted by a rubber-stamp assembly in 1996, is ostensibly aimed at displacing French dominance.