Sentence examples for ostensibly intended from inspiring English sources

It was ostensibly intended to stem the northward migration of farmers and ranchers.

Even agency programs ostensibly intended to guard American communications are sometimes used to weaken protections.

Mr. Josten dismissed Mr. Obama's recently announced regulatory strategy, ostensibly intended to reduce unnecessary burdens on business.

Ostensibly intended to educate the public about bribery, embezzlement and fraud, it will run for a month.

The Americans reckon that, although it is ostensibly intended to make money laundering harder, it actually undermines international efforts to crack down on the crime.

But the sanctions, ostensibly intended to put pressure on the Iranian negotiators, were designed to go into effect automatically, no matter how the nuclear talks went.

So far, only $26 million has made it through financial pipelines ostensibly intended to funnel billions of dollars for climate-adaptation assistance, the report said.

The speech was ostensibly intended to hold up the passage of what is known as a continuing resolution: a motion to maintain funding for the federal government.

In the last four years, issue advertising -- ostensibly intended to promote a cause rather than a person -- has become a ubiquitous tool in Congressional and presidential races.

The seizure was ostensibly intended to collect 53.9m kwacha (approximately £4m) in allegedly unpaid VAT receipts and employee income tax remittances.

As a result, the committees, ostensibly intended to serve an overseer function, have far more often acted as the NSA's in-house PR firm.