Sentence examples for ostensibly successful from inspiring English sources

It is currently engaged in fierce and ostensibly successful offensives in the Damascus area and in Homs Province.

They failed to do that because, despite eight years of ostensibly successful economic management under Mr Clinton, they have not decided what sort of party they are.

Romand, the ostensibly successful professional and happy family man, had in fact done nothing with his life, except make it up.

Two years after the ostensibly successful revolution, Libya has failed to build up its police forces and army to the point where they can rebuff these challenges to the basic authority of the state.

In line with this, our recent study suggested that flycatchers tended to reject the choices of ostensibly successful tits when the clutch was covered [ 11].

The existence of ostensibly successful policy documents that are silent on the special needs of particular groups is not an argument against developing 'best practice' health adaptation policy that explicitly prioritises the needs of vulnerable groups, if the evidence of the IPCC about climate vulnerability and social inequality is to be heeded [ 11].

Nigel is ostensibly more successful than Louise, who seems more damaged, but hopefully by the end you're re-evaluating that.

For nearly fifty years now, Cosby has been selling us a vision of America as a place where a man like him — ostensibly benign, successful, unencumbered by the shackles of history — could exist.

The question is, why this has happened so quickly after what was ostensibly a successful election for One Nation?

Within a few years, they had become the world's most successful (ostensibly) anarchist company.

Pretty and poised, she is ostensibly the most successful of the group, with her soon-to-be-M.D. boyfriend, her Princeton degree and her job at a hospital.