Sentence examples for ostensibly powerful from inspiring English sources

Davies's case against Gatwick is ostensibly powerful, assuming no government dares order airlines which airport to use.

Morgan has become a rather brilliant specialist in political bullfights, crucial showdowns between more ostensibly powerful, established figures and brash, savvy newcomers whose superior understanding of the new world of surfaces gives them the upper hand.

Gurley recalled, "It basically said, 'I really enjoy working with you, but I can't stand the fact that you're associated with that guy.' " Gurley told me that Silicon Valley investors, even ostensibly powerful ones, can no longer rein in the young, mostly male tech founders, who often have voting control over their companies.

Surprisingly, these calculations can result in the ostensibly most powerful player in a voting body being hurt.

But recently, there has been a growth in the literary depiction of a particular type of friendship, one that has in the past found itself vulnerable to dilution and deflection by the ostensibly more powerful imperatives of heterosexuality and motherhood.

More remain, some ostensibly "retired" from powerful firms as they work to reach the White House.

Critics, including Mark Gardner of the Community Security Trust, criticised him for applying "the antisemitic trope of Jews as puppeteers, controlling the politicians of ostensibly much more powerful nations".

A former president, ostensibly the most powerful person in the world, succumbed to a disease which left him with no recollection of his presidency and took away his ability to care for his most basic needs.

Cohen pays particular attention to his role, arguing that Holmes's reputation as a paragon of democratic wisdom is largely undeserved, and that he was, in reality, a flinty character and an arrogant élitist whose decisions favored the powerful and whose ostensibly progressive opinions were arrived at through illiberal rationale.

It may be that Guzmán has calculated that he is safer (from the Zetas and others) and perhaps even more powerful in custody than ostensibly on the run.

It is a powerful, always-connected machine, one ostensibly easy-to-use by both consumer and developer.