Sentence examples for ostensibly influential from inspiring English sources

This means amassing a huge Twitter following, thereby being ostensibly influential while actually contributing very little to society.

Although she has ostensibly been pardoned, influential Muslim extremists are calling for her death and offering rewards of nearly $6,000 USD for her assassination.

Maximus was also held in very high esteem by the exarch Gregory, the eparch George and the population as a holy man, ostensibly becoming an influential unofficial political advisor and spiritual head in North Africa.

In the opening scene, Jacqueline Posner gathers friends and influential strangers at her Park Avenue duplex, ostensibly to introduce its next owner but really to signal that her impending divorce will not upend her sumptuous lifestyle.

As we saw above, in addition to commenting on Aristotle's Organon, he wrote a logical compendium, the Summulae de dialectica, ostensibly as a commentary on Peter of Spain's Summulae logicales, an influential terminist textbook written a century earlier.

He has also been to Saudi Arabia, ostensibly to perform the Umrah religious pilgrimage, but more likely to draw diplomatic support from influential Saudi officials, according to Pakistani news reports.

Through his connections with the Moroccan royal court, Haïdara has been influential in promoting an initiative to educate 500 Malian religious students in Fez, ostensibly part of Morocco's efforts to counter extremist ideologies.

Gershom Scholem (1897 1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno.

Ostensibly this aids transparency.

His teammates, ostensibly.

The commission is ostensibly independent.