Sentence examples for ostensibly justified from inspiring English sources

The judges and prosecutors of course went to great length to draw distinctions between their own quiet, prudent collaboration (ostensibly justified by the need to preserve the French from the greater horrors of direct Nazi rule) and Brasillach's noisy, flagrantly treasonous conduct.

The stiff cost of an annuity's insurance wrapper is ostensibly justified by the coverage.

The ill-advised PR campaign was illustrated on May 16, when in response to my comments on the blatant brutality of the Kenyan police and their disproportionate use of force against the protestors, a member of the Digital Communication in the Office of the President facebooked me a rather misguided interpretation of a Reuters-Africa story -- ostensibly justifying the brutal police response.

Dr. Castro asked the undercover agent for an M.R.I. exam, ostensibly to justify the need for painkiller, but did not question the fact that the male undercover agent provided him with a female's imaging.

Modern forms of oppression tend to be hard to recognize as such, because they are justified by ostensibly objective and impartial branches of social science.

Richard Leighton gets the balance right in his expressions of ambition, anger, scorn, regret and contempt as Borkman, ostensibly trying to justify himself, lays bare his responsibility for his fall -- from ruling a huge bank and being offered a cabinet post, to conviction for embezzlement and an eight-year self-exile from virtually all human contact, including any with his wife and son.

Administrators were justified, the court ruled, for penalizing what was ostensibly off-campus speech.

Yet returning to those rates would ostensibly be enough to justify a revolt, so says a Supreme Court justice -- and a revolt, incidentally, that would precipitate the obvious death and imprisonment of most the people involved with attempting to overthrow the government.

Totally justified.

(Completely justified).

And well justified.