Sentence examples for ostensibly seeking from inspiring English sources

In it, Mr. Zetsche played a nosy neighbor ostensibly seeking strudel but actually doling out car advice.

On April 8, though ostensibly seeking the court's assistance in obtaining the answers to the questions, the prosecutor never even faintly suggested any coercivr remedy.

Two, Uganda and Rwanda, were trying to overthrow their former puppet, President Laurent Kabila, the others ostensibly seeking to prop him up.

(They are ostensibly seeking an orphan; the retrospective narrator tells us they don't yet know that adoptions from foreigners have been banned).

Twenty-seven of those tests, involving 12 offices, showed "at least some unequal treatment of African-American and Hispanic testers ostensibly seeking rental housing," the agency said.

From the 1980s on, many of these militia were organized into the United Wa State Army, an organization ostensibly seeking Wa autonomy; in fact, however, this group has been primarily involved in protecting the narcotics trade.

These zealous sweeps are so error-ridden that they undermine the integrity they ostensibly seek.

Nor does the portrait ostensibly seek to catch her likeness at a specific moment.

In this context, the answer to the question the Oxford union ostensibly sought to answer seems to me straightforward.

Their personal ads ostensibly seek a soul mate, but what they're really looking for is an audience.

The referendum, which continues on Wednesday, ostensibly seeks national consent for a series of amendments to Egypt's constitution.