Sentence examples for ostensibly without from inspiring English sources

Finally, Steinbrenner closed with classic braggadocio, as he declared — ostensibly without the blessing of the Williams College coaches — that this matter would be settled on a football field.

The State Assembly is set to vote Monday on a bill that would allow the state — ostensibly without Mr. Gibbons's blessing — to accept the money.

The Danish model suffered a further blow when parliament then passed a law that decided the terms and conditions of Danish teachers ostensibly without consulting them.

Few people remember much about Geoffrey Howe in office except his resignation speech, but that brought down Mrs Thatcher – and it was all the more devastating for being ostensibly without rancour.

In what continues to be one of the most intoxicating pop cultural artifacts of our age, Us magazine regularly offers its readers a feature called "Stars -- They're Just Like Us!" In it, famous people are shown performing chores, ostensibly without the help of managers, agents or other members of their staffs.

And that suggests another problem with hardship porn: its insinuation that surmounting obstacles equals acquiring real character, which is ostensibly impossible without tough times.

Khan, a father of two, was arrested by government forces two days before he was due to return to the UK, ostensibly for travelling without a visa.

This pair of lofty assertions is now in self-serving doubt, when agents undertaking this surreptitious work ostensibly do so without politicians' knowledge.

In the case of an extramarital affair, the law allows that spouse to recover any financial expenditures paid on the paramour that ostensibly were expended without the consent of the unknowing spouse, but the amount of those expenses has to be established.

Bush's counter-terrorism advisers decided that Kashmir-focussed jihadi groups posed no direct threat to the U.S. The Administration delivered close to ten billion dollars' worth of military aid to Pakistan, ostensibly to fight Al Qaeda, without real oversight and without requiring that the I.S.I. break with regional Islamist groups.

In 1961-69 Darwash was repeatedly imprisoned, ostensibly for leaving Haifa without a permit.