Sentence examples for ostensibly bogus from inspiring English sources

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The S.E.C. is pushing for investors who bought more than $7.2 billion in ostensibly bogus certificates of deposit from Mr. Stanford's Antiguan bank to be treated as brokerage customers by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.

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Although the tests, ostensibly to weed out bogus immigration claims, first drew condemnation in the late 1970s, the extent to which the practice had taken place was not clear until now.

Chandler also banned bogus agents, known as "Indian Attorneys," who had been paid $8.00 a day plus expenses for, ostensibly, providing tribes with representation in the nation's capital.

Participants were instructed by a lab-coated experimenter to give electrical shocks using a scary-looking (bogus) device that was introduced as a 'shock generator' to another participant, in reality a trained research confederate, ostensibly as part of a learning task.

"Bogus, bogus.

totally bogus.

The fighting began when Moscow invaded Georgia ostensibly to end atrocities against ethnic minority separatists in the South Ossetia region, while Georgia contended that Moscow was dressing up expansionism with bogus humanitarian intervention.

Amiably bogus.

Ostensibly this aids transparency.

In the schemes, bogus companies often enlist insurance agents or brokers, who sometimes do not even know that they are taking part, to persuade clients to make large investments ostensibly guaranteeing high returns, law enforcement officials said.

His teammates, ostensibly.

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