Sentence examples for ostensibly focused from inspiring English sources

Mr. Chau is ostensibly focused on street food, but he harbors greater ambitions.

But while ostensibly focused on those outdoor pursuits, it also presses issues important mainly to the gun industry, which is one of its largest contributors.

The Syria dispute came to dominate the Group of 20 meeting, ostensibly focused mainly on economic matters, and underscored the difficulty Mr. Obama has faced with Mr. Putin in recent months.

Ostensibly focused on a drug war in the port city of Baltimore, the show is both a sprawling depiction of urban decay that's Dickensian in its scope and a good-old fashioned tale of cops chasing criminals.

What there wasn't much of in this work, ostensibly focused on probing "the relationship between the individual and society" (more earnest program notes), was any sense of either an individual artistic voice or a coherent society, whether metaphorical or allegorical or what.

The divergent receptions attest to the steep challenge Mr. Obama will face in holding on to North Carolina, where he kicked off a three-day bus tour ostensibly focused on promoting his jobs bill but equally intended to shore up a crucial segment of his electoral map.

The hearings this week will ostensibly focus on how subprime loans were packaged and originated, with a focus on Citigroup.

The labyrinthine plot, pitched in tone midway between John Grisham and Carl Hiassen, ostensibly focusses on viatical benefits, in which the policies of the terminally ill are bought by a company at a cut rate, thus allowing the dying to live out their final days with ample cash.

Here's a Marilyn Diptych and a remake of The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, the "total art" series of 60s happenings, but this exhibition ostensibly focuses on the artist's innovative use of the mass communication networks of his time: pop gigs; club performances; fashion magazines.

And despite a jobs crisis and a presidential campaign that ostensibly focuses on the economy, none of the proposals coming out of Washington are aimed at stemming the systematic subcontracting that's squeezing the country's working class.

If the learning objectives emphasize content and/or its cultural contexts, one can ostensibly focus on applications alone.