Sentence examples for ostensibly reject from inspiring English sources

These consumers could ostensibly reject costlier e-books.

In line with this, our recent study suggested that flycatchers tended to reject the choices of ostensibly successful tits when the clutch was covered [ 11].

(In fact, Wainwright's piece was originally intended for the Met; Gelb rejected it, ostensibly because of the French libretto).

It looked like the uniform of a dull college, and the Olympic ruling bodies rejected it, ostensibly on legal grounds (it's used for fund-raising) but obviously on aesthetic ones.

When Hogarth presented the piece to Grosvenor, he rejected it, ostensibly because it was "so striking and inimitable, that the constantly having it before one's eyes would be too often occasioning melancholy ideas to arise in one's mind"; in disgust, Hogarth released him from their bargain.

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The fact that new taxes for an ostensibly progressive cause can be rejected by a 60 to 40 margin in a city where Republicans have trouble getting 20 percent of the vote says more about voter fatigue with poorly-thought-out ideas than it does about shifting political loyalties.

He expected to be able to cobble together a narrow-based coalition, and offered the troublesome Mr Netanyahu the foreign ministry in an ostensibly magnanimous gesture that he was confident would be rejected.

Hillary delegates to the DNC rejected a platform plank opposing the TPP ostensibly because they did not want to "embarrass" President Obama.

President Truman has asked Flynn to resume negotiations in the near future Flynn was once rejected, by the Senate, as Minister to Australia, ostensibly on the ground that it would damage American prestige to have a Bronx wardheeler in such a position Flynn, more than anyone except Roosevelt himself, was responsible for Truman's nomination for the Vice-Presidency.