Sentence examples for ostensibly positive from inspiring English sources

Something has been lost in this ostensibly positive development.

The ostensibly positive reforming aims of the Climbié inquiry exemplify how the entire debate on social care is based on negativity: on preventing the worst.

Scottish nationalism (even its modern, ostensibly "positive" incarnation) is fuelled, at least in part, by the claim that Scotland would flourish if only it had greater autonomy.

In the process, what began at the end of the 60s and early 70s as an ostensibly positive search for self discovery, self-realization and self-actualization has devolved over the years to a negative spiral of being self-centered, self-absorbed and self-delusional.

We have employed PSC 833, which stimulates the rate-limiting step, serine palmitoyltransferase (Wang et al, 2002), ostensibly as a positive control in the activation of de novo ceramide production.

"It seems that investors, for now at least, are taking the news as a positive, the move ostensibly preventing the panic-pause-more panic pattern that appeared in the Chinese markets on Monday and Thursday from repeating itself.

Controls sampled from women with a negative laparoscopy (who are members of the same case series as women who had a positive laparoscopy), would ostensibly be representative of the source population if that population was explicitly defined before case selection, and not secondarily to case series identification.

It is here, in the science which ostensibly distinguishes the current version of positive psychology from its predecessors that positive psychology has failed, quite miserably we believe, in its approach to examining growth following adversity.

But he still seemed as much bemused as discomfited yesterday that administration officials have been caught making payoffs for positive "news coverage" from ostensibly independent journalists.

Though that film was panned, Collette eked positive notices for the ostensibly slight In Her Shoes (2005), in which she was featured as the dowdy sister to Cameron Diaz's promiscuous wastrel.

In fact, his post, which ostensibly calls for everyone to be positive no matter what, is really just a clever way of inciting the mob to blame (in this case) TechCrunch for the market problems.