Sentence examples for ostensibly on behalf of from inspiring English sources

"We allege that Treasurer Cahill gained an unwarranted and unlawful privilege by his ability to launch a television ad campaign, ostensibly on behalf of the Massachusetts State Lottery, but one that was actually carefully coordinated primarily to promote his own campaign for governor," Ms. Coakley said during a news conference.

Instead, a lawsuit is filed ostensibly on behalf of Bradley Smith — the chief executive of Rescue One Financial — against one Deborah Garcia, who supposedly lives in Rhode Island.

The opioid-makers and the nonprofits they supported, ostensibly on behalf of pain patients, have lost credibility in recent years.

All of this may have you questioning why the public is so outraged -- ostensibly on behalf of wronged Goldman clients -- when many of the clients themselves seem unconcerned.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 23 — A president who has led his forces to victory, ostensibly on behalf of the United Nations, would in theory deserve a hero's welcome.

In 2004 Bush administration officials examined whether a fundraising event at a Washington DC convention centre, ostensibly on behalf of victims of the Bam earthquake, was in fact a cover for collecting money for the MEK.

That is not, however, how professional journalists, ostensibly speaking on behalf of the public, usually choose to see it.

At first, two of them, formerly military chiefs in the Il-Khans' service, competed for power in western Iran, ostensibly acting on behalf of rival Il-Khanid puppet princes.

They're lugging camera equipment that they will soon use to digitally record the garden, some other visitors and each other during a dialectical exchange on religion, with the elder Makhmalbaf ostensibly arguing on behalf of faith and the younger man more or less presenting the opposing view.

We anticipated a further possibility above, however, when we observed that a dual officer or director might depart so far from the norms of parental influence exercised through dual officeholding as to serve the parent, even when ostensibly acting on behalf of the subsidiary in operating the facility.

Moreover, the Times' writer points out that SBM doesn't actually have small business members—a revealing fact for a group that ostensibly advocates on behalf of small businesses.