Sentence examples for ostensibly saying from inspiring English sources

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Having painstakingly built this apparatus of mathematical self-reference, Gödel came up with an astonishing twist: he produced a formula that, while ostensibly saying something about numbers, also says, "I am not provable".

So I was pretty happy in 2005 when IBM, in an obvious PR stunt to get buddy-buddy with the open source community, made its Statement of Non-Assertion of Named Patents Against OSS, ostensibly saying that it would permit open source projects to use any of the items covered by those patents without risk of penalty or lawsuit.

At $249, it can be perceived as being far more expensive than the Kindle Fire (although it's not) and by naming the "Tablet" rather than the "Slate" or the "Runik Booke," B&N is ostensibly saying "This is a computing device that we made for readers".

While ostensibly saying that we all "overreacted" to his inane tweet, Rush claimed on WorldNetDaily that liberalism is akin to "stage 3 cancer" and that we are at war with the entire religion of Islam.

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So Nauman's piece ostensibly says "I have no pretensions" in a language that is all radiant claim.

For years, as I've walked past food stands in foreign lands, I've struggled to keep in mind that for an American visitor the operational translation for signs that ostensibly say something like "bhel puri" or "tacos de nopales" is "Delivery System for Unfamiliar Bugs That You Will Bitterly Regret Having Ingested".

The committee is also generally unhappy with the various vague pieces of terminology used in the bill — ostensibly, says the government, to attempt to future proof the legislation — warning that ill-defined terms have led to "significant confusion on the part of communications service providers and others" as to the scope of the proposed legislation.

Pitt ostensibly said, "You've heard of the Illuminati right?

When the Guardian visited, the police arrived within half an hour, ostensibly to "say hello".

"This one is ostensibly stranger," says Iuzzolino, "but bit by bit, you go, My God – this is like Chekhov".

Although the premiere was on a Sunday, Mr. Gersh arrived in New York Friday morning and went to the Gersh Agency ostensibly to say hello to everyone.

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