Sentence examples for ostensibly passed from inspiring English sources

The company, in an effort to show off the Galaxy A8 Star's amazing photo retouching abilities, used a cleverly shot portrait, modified it and then ostensibly passed it off as one taken by the A8.

While this law was ostensibly passed to prevent "state secrets" being passed to "enemies," it is far more likely that the current batch of state secrets are to cover up the mega-disaster at Fukushima, and the enemies are none other than the Japanese people, and people everywhere.

One case was so bizarre and apparently unfair that it drew public outrage, a highly unusual occurrence in Russia: earlier this year, a mother of seven was charged with high treason for ostensibly passing information to Ukraine which she had overheard on a public bus.

Which is why some don't even try: Last year, a Long Beach restaurant was busted for serving Popeyes chicken and ostensibly passing it off as its own.

An extraordinary parliamentary session will then be called for September, ostensibly to pass a bunch of job-creation and company-restructuring proposals that the Ministry of International Trade and Industry is beavering away on.

In the video, a gruff-looking guy wakes up, ostensibly after passing out drunk, and finds himself in an elaborate hospital set, where he's told that he's been in a coma for ten years because of his bad decisions.

Mr. Mayer passed (ostensibly because the role demanded a sizable time commitment), so producers held a casting call.

There were two elderly proctors who were ostensibly there to pass out the exams and prevent people from cheating.

In fact, under a law passed in 2010, ostensibly on health grounds, foreign drug companies must test medicine on Russians for it to be marketed in Russia.

Jerry Brown was governor when Californians passed Proposition 13, ostensibly an anti-tax measure but in reality a fundamental constitutional change with vast, and mostly unforeseen, consequences.

According to Tynes, the Giants could have run a fake in which they passed the ball – ostensibly into the end zone because they had no timeouts remaining and thus might not have time to run another play – but still had the backup plan of kicking the field goal on fourth down if the pass was incomplete.