Sentence examples for ostensibly sought from inspiring English sources

Although the various members of the Chicago school ostensibly sought to develop political science as a value-free discipline, it had two central predilections: it accepted democratic values, and it attempted to improve the operation of democratic systems.

Because these new tourists ostensibly sought self-improvement as well as pleasure, they invariably had at hand the relevant title published by one of the three Leviathans of guidebook publishing: the German firm of Baedeker (which published guidebooks in German, French and English), John Murray of London and the Guides Joanne from the Parisian publisher Hachette.

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.

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

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

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

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

They may, ostensibly, seek to teach, but the more necessary lesson, perhaps unbeknownst to even the teacher herself, can't be taught in the kitchen.

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

"Beyond the fact that this is a bill that ostensibly seeks to increase transparency, it seeks to label human beings," she said.