Sentence examples for was ostensibly based from inspiring English sources

It was ostensibly based on a play by William Gillette, though the two works had little in common.

As an example, they said the order to close the newspapers was ostensibly based on a rarely used 1957 statute that permits the government to arrest people or suspend an activity to prevent a possible crime.

Then, working with the writer Aaron Sorkin and the director David Fincher, it tackled Mr. Zuckerberg's story using court records and other sources as a book on which the film was ostensibly based was being finished.

Al-Ḥakīm won fame as a dramatist with Ahl al-kahf (1933; "The People of the Cave"), which was ostensibly based on the story of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus but which was actually a study of the human struggle against time.

This new system is ostensibly based on, and built upon the experience with, the successful CO2P3S system.

Never mind that they're ostensibly based on the signs of the zodiac, they make for a surreal and stimulating experience in themselves.

Washington economists Michael Clemens and Todd Moss have argued (pdf) that it "no longer makes sense, if it ever did", as it's ostensibly based on calculations of what poor countries in the 1960s needed to close "financing gaps".

Mr. Stella's "Had Gadya" series of large, lively prints, made in 1982 using a complex combination of graphic techniques, is ostensibly based on El Lissitzky's interpretations of a traditional Passover tale.

A coming-of-age story set on an island off Maine during the first year of American involvement in World War II, the show is ostensibly based on a 1971 novel by Herman Raucher.

Of particular note is the computer's low opinion of Jurgen Klinsmann's three-game stint as coach of the United States national team (though the rankings are ostensibly based on results over the past four years), which dropped three places to No. 31.

So Chevrolet took the opportunity to change its Nascar racer from the front-drive Impala to the rear-drive, V-8-powered SS, and for 2013, Nascar allowed the three manufacturers enough design latitude to race cars that actually resemble the models they are ostensibly based on.