Sentence examples for ostensibly growing from inspiring English sources

While the nation's economy is ostensibly growing – by an average of 3.3% per year since the ANC government took power in 1994 – a lack of financial education effectively precludes non-white people like Asanda from benefiting from her own country's economic advancement.

Surveys and state of art presentations are already numerous, and ostensibly growing (see, e.g., Good 1971; Hartmann and Sprenger 2010; Jeffrey 2004; Joyce 2011; Oaksford and Chater 2007; Talbott 2011; Weisberg 2011).

The reluctance — or outright refusal — of ostensibly grown men to behave like adults is more than just a favored theme of modern movie comedy.

"The reluctance — or outright refusal — of ostensibly grown men to behave like adults is more than just a favored theme of modern movie comedy," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in March.

The services ostensibly grow smarter the longer the consumer uses the service.

There are few moments when I, ostensibly a grown, vaguely responsible adult, pause to consider my actions and my choices.

Last autumn's military intervention by Russia, ostensibly to confront the growing menace of Isis but in fact targeting mainstream rebel groups fighting Assad, galvanised moves to launch the Vienna process – of which this Geneva meeting is the outcome.

Even China's 800 million ostensibly independent farmers grow crops on state-owned land and sell grain to state-owned grain companies.

That data set has been analyzed on an individual photo basis by claims adjusters, roofers and other experts and it ostensibly continues to grow and improve via machine learning with every new image it processes.

There is no longer any need for distasteful and legally compromising entanglements with old-fashioned drug dealers, several marijuana users said, because it is now possible to buy from a medical marijuana shop or a friend, or a friend of a friend growing it for ostensibly medical purposes.

I think a steady move higher in rates, ostensibly, is indicative of a growing economy.