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ostensibly.
adverb
Seemingly, apparently, on the surface
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It's a documentary, ostensibly, but it's also a genre-defying film about memory and fiction and their strange, liquid relationship with the truth.
Often ostensibly secular and radically libertarian, for decades they have lobbied to turn public education – currently an $85bn federal operation – into an industrial complex.
The visit was ostensibly to coincide with the party's announcement that it would put £2.5bn towards a care closer to home fund, which would put money into providing care options that avoid hospital admissions for older people.
When the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) – the statute which ostensibly "legalises" everything that GCHQ & co do in cyberspace – was going through parliament in 1999, those of us who campaigned against it were astonished to find that no more than a handful of MPs were interested.
Ostensibly a road safety measure, this system tracks vehicles using GPS and reports back to a central database.
In the meantime, a law ostensibly designed to reduce the dominance of big corporations will likely result in their becoming even stronger.
Last year there was even talk at the FCO of giving to the Armenian Genocide Museum copies of some files in the National Archives attesting to the Ottoman atrocities: this was turned down, ostensibly because the photocopying costs of £431.20 could not be afforded, but probably because the Turks would go ballistic.
Gone are the days when companies were ostensibly forced to answer questions at annual shareholder meetings, said the employee, who requested anonymity, citing his company's political positioning.
Sweeney went with the LSE group on a trip ostensibly arranged by the Grimshaw Club – the student society of the university's international relations department.
1.40pm: There's nasty piece of YouTube posted by someone named by NHLiberty4Paul, ostensibly a pro-Ron Paul ad that mocks Jon Huntsman for his links with China, calling him a "Manchurian candidate" and specifically mentioning Huntsman's adopted daughters.
Tokyo has used a legal loophole in the 1986 ban on commercial whaling that allowed it to continue slaughtering the mammals, ostensibly so it could gather scientific data.
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