Sentence examples for ostensibly opposed from inspiring English sources

His balancing of ostensibly opposed elements starts with his appearance.

Still, it would take rather longer for the governments of Britain and America, ostensibly opposed to apartheid, to understand this.

Two fundamental and ostensibly opposed streams permeate Spanish painting and separate it from that of the rest of Europe ecstatic mysticism and sober rationalism.

The ruling Tories paid secret subsidies to pro-government newspapers using public funds Sir Robert Walpole bribed Daniel Defoe to write pieces that ostensibly opposed him.

Kalām (literally "speech") is an Arabic term used in both Islamic and Jewish vocabulary to designate several theological schools that were ostensibly opposed to Greek, and particularly Aristotelian, philosophy.

Bennett, who two years later killed himself after being exposed as the anonymous writer of a snide critical essay in the Church of England's annual Crockford's directory, ostensibly opposed Williams's candidature because he was married, but perhaps more likely through professional and personal jealousy: the two men had been fellow tutors for 20 years, their rooms next to each other.

As a populist who says she always has the interest of the poorest at heart, she ostensibly opposes any liberalising reforms.

Today, Labor's free market policies seem more-or-less identical to those presented by the Liberals – and, as a result, Bill Shorten appears a colourless imitation of those he ostensibly opposes.

But Cruz's concerns are obviously, the fact that the people ostensibly opposing Assad aren't necessarily an improvement, in terms of non-psychotic, non-death culty super-zealots, over the Assad regime.

Menzies dropped Kent Hughes from cabinet in 1956, ostensibly because Menzies opposed some of his housing plans for Canberra.

Although Russia endorsed the peace plan, it has steadfastly opposed sanctions ostensibly because of fears they could lead to NATO military action, as in Libya.