Sentence examples for ostensibly see from inspiring English sources

As he wraps the mayoralty around him, New York will ostensibly see at last what matters to Mr. Bloomberg most.

Over the course of Monday's controversial Helsinki summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin pushed an agenda that would ostensibly see the U.S. and Russia working side by side as allies.

Arrested for allegedly stealing crab legs from a local market, the mother of eight became ill the day after her arrest and asked to be taken to the hospital where she was ostensibly seen but not admitted.

Switzerland decided a week before Germany to phase out its plants over the next three decades, and several members of the European Union, including Britain, have delayed their nuclear plans, ostensibly to see what lessons can be learned from the Japanese disaster.

Car ferries to each run constantly and cost a bargain 2,500 pesos; I set out, ostensibly, to see more churches — each island has several, and signs are easy to follow, though you may find them closed, as I did.

I decided to stretch one hand out – ostensibly to see if I could still see it in the dark; I could not – and accidentally dribbled warm, salty water into my open eyes.

They'll be there ostensibly to see how their companies can best help advance the worldwide push toward "sustainable development," a catchphrase for raising incomes and standards of living without depleting resources or sullying the environment.

Mr. Oscar Hammerstein is going over ostensibly to see his son, Mr. William Hammerstein, who has been ill, to settle matters in connection with a lawsuit of which he is a party, and to open a box-office in New York for the London Opera House.

The answer, gleaned from his teammates, is that his estranged wife, the brilliant but temperamental actress Vivien Merchant (who made no secret of her vexation when, a year earlier, Pinter left home to live with Lady Antonia Fraser, the biographer of Cromwell and Mary Queen of Scots), has announced her intention of watching the game, ostensibly to see her son in action.

(In a demonstration some weeks before, several U.C.L.A. football fans — disappointed that U.S.C. rather than their own team had been invited to the Rose Bowl — stopped every single car on the San Diego Freeway, ostensibly to see whether there were any U.S.C. students inside; the U.C.L.A. fans probably caused more damage, and certainly caused less outrage, than the crowd outside Pandora's Box).

He goes on a pilgrimage to Louisiana State Penitentiary, the notorious converted plantation better known as Angola, ostensibly to see a Passion play performed by the inmates, but also with the hope that associating with penitent murderers and felons will help him grasp "the problem of violence".