Sentence examples for ostensibly important from inspiring English sources

Men** **exist on the base, doing their own ostensibly important military thing, but they may as well be the adults in "Peanuts," their voices garbled and inconsequential.

Yet, ostensibly important characters were not immune from getting shot or having their throats slit or their brains dashed, so who knew?

Tanne picks a great subject of contemporary history and politics — indeed, one of the very greatest — and approaches it without the pomp and bombast of ostensibly important, message-mongering Oscarizables.

Some of the money will go just to pay off old debts, chiefly to the IMF, but, once that has been done, another few billion dollars in new loans should flow straight into the Russian government's rattlingly empty coffers.That has nothing to do with such ostensibly important issues as collection of taxes (still pathetic) or reform of Russia's ailing banks (non-existent).

They're typically fortified with extra calcium, vitamin D, or other nutrients ostensibly important to running a woman.

Regardless of your feelings on ladies in Viking helmets, it's ostensibly important to hold on to cultural institutions like this, and you should probably support them so that rich old people can keep seeing Tristan und Isolde do that right here.

Such a responsibility has traditionally been a corporate ruse to save on taxes by showing expenditures on seemingly charitable causes, or, in old-fashioned business houses, a way to keep the women in the family occupied as the men did ostensibly more important things.

Yes, there are ostensibly "more important" things going on in the world than a multi-millionaire superstar losing one award on a night where she won two others, but it's possible ― and even necessary ― to care about more than one thing at a time. .

There was no significant association with literacy rates and per capita income indicating that it is ostensibly more important to be aware than educated and that TB is not only a disease of the poor.

To be fair, he ostensibly had more important things on his mind than the fate of some stupid umbrella, like what he planned to say at a campaign rally later that day in Illinois, which he went ahead with even though the nation had been rocked by a mass shooting just hours earlier.

Data capture is ostensibly the most important component of any herbarium digitization program.