Sentence examples for ostensibly start from inspiring English sources

Mullah Omar's message was one of the first public indications that even as members of the Taliban set up an office in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar to ostensibly start peace talks, the group does not plan to participate in the election in April.

While the re-election effort ostensibly started months ago — with both Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden appearing at fund-raisers and campaignlike events — the White House called the vice president's visit here the first official event of the campaign.

This summer saw a war of words between Madrid and London over the British colonial territory of Gibraltar, which ostensibly started over what Spain argues was an illegal underwater reef in contested waters, but has developed into an increasingly unseemly public row.

The event was widely cited as the trigger event for July 2009 Ürümqi riots, which ostensibly started as a peaceful street protest demanding official action over the two Uyghurs who died in Shaoguan.

The attack came just days after the Taliban opened an office in Doha, ostensibly for starting negotiations about a peace process.

The incident came just days after representatives of the Taliban opened an office in Qatar's capital, ostensibly for starting negotiations about a peace process.

Surprisingly to outsiders, most Highland wars start ostensibly as a dispute over either pigs or women.

The parties of New Year's Eve are ostensibly the way to start another trip around the Sun with a burst of exuberance.

His balancing of ostensibly opposed elements starts with his appearance.

That, ostensibly, was the starting point of the so-called message control.

What are the implications for Church, ostensibly the Mets' starting right fielder?