Sentence examples for ostensibly charged with from inspiring English sources

Committee members, ostensibly charged with careful consideration of legislative proposals, win their positions by promising to toe the party line.

Remember those two sarcastic cartoon police horses from ITV4's Warren United earlier this year who were ostensibly charged with chaperoning football-loving human morons to their Saturday afternoon fixtures?

Ostensibly charged with writing the school's official history, his leisurely obsession is reconstructing the events of 40 years earlier, when the spirit of late-60s revolution unleashed monsters that had little to do with Paris or free love.

He calls games like Angry Birds or Bejeweled, which ensnare players in addictive loops of frustration and gratification under the pretense that skill is required to win, "abusive" — a common diagnosis among those who get hooked on the games, but a surprising one from a game designer, ostensibly charged with doing the hooking.

Republicans on the conference committee ― a bipartisan panel ostensibly charged with negotiating the compromise ― declined to reveal the details of their final proposal.

But it's a little astounding to hear Kate Snow, who, as a reporter, is ostensibly charged with informing the public, offer up the mealy mouthed, "Just for the record, he constantly says he's a Christian...".

Several panelists maintained that any ostensibly impartial authority charged with appointing defense attorneys in capital cases would be inherently biased against capital punishment.

Taking the difference between the prices of cars fitted with the 40-kWh and 60-kWh packs, Tesla ostensibly charges $10,000 for 20 kWh of capacity, or $500 per kilowatt-hour.

One case was so bizarre and apparently unfair that it drew public outrage, a highly unusual occurrence in Russia: earlier this year, a mother of seven was charged with high treason for ostensibly passing information to Ukraine which she had overheard on a public bus.

The military's Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC), set up 50 years ago to ostensibly root out communists, has now been charged with helping parties separated by the political divide to "dissolve their differences" at "reform centers".

Veja, a weekly newspaper, reported this month that 15,000 police officers, or 3% of the national total, are currently charged with serious crime.Even when ostensibly fighting crime rather than committing it, the police often shoot first and ask questions later.