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ostensibly

(= apparently, seemingly, on the face of it) from appearances alone irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it — Thomas Hardy on the face of it the problem seems minor

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Ostensibly. ostensibly free.
You will see on page seven. that in 1959. Mundt was posted to London. ostensibly as a member of the East German Steel Mission.
We had one young John Thomas ostensibly commanding.
One was from Cleveland, ostensibly. and the other from a small, rural area.
I twisted my lip for the aid of a piece of flesh colored plaster and then with a dark wig and appropriate clothing took my position in the busiest part of the metropolis, ostensibly as a match-seller but, yes, really as a beggar.
Which means the video store is ostensibly closed.
Ursine features but ostensibly simian.
The girls and I had a pajama party the other night ostensibly to cheer me up after my breakup with you.
Ostensibly, the one to whom it was born.
Ostensibly, yeah.
These, ostensibly. are the legendary. cities of gold. containing the Mayan treasure. which the Spanish conquistadors. so desperately had sought.
Kennedy put a trade embargo on Cuba, ostensibly halting the shipment of Cuban manufactured Sansabelt Slacks, very popular at the time.
They were squeezing the toothpaste out of my tube. ostensibly looking for a computer or whatever they were looking for.
Yes, and I'll be free? Ostensibly. ostensibly free.
Ostensibly, dear.
Ostensibly.
Ostensibly, he is a member of the Algerian Trade Delegation.
Ostensibly, Krim fights for the cause of emerging nations, but in reality, he is nothing but a military gangster who plunders ally and enemy alike.
This ostensibly is the floor plan of a gallery where I had once arranged an exhibition on flight.
At least once every 24 hours, Orchard drives five miles to the coast, ostensibly to collect the skulls of seabirds.
He is now living in a luxurious apartment at Bel Air, ostensibly receiving an income from his editorship of a screen magazine called The Hoopoe, whose rare issues are concerned with birds in feature film making.
Biography 72, ostensibly because it dealt with rival sponsorship, and Biography 73, because Cottes Fallope, cartographer, had been caught in an act of trespass.
Grace Stanton came to the office, ostensibly to. see you, but she was really after some material Amos Maxwell sent you.
Voyle starts talking to Myrtle's friends ostensibly to get a more thorough psychological portrait of her, but.
Men are executed on a regular basis, ostensibly by orders of the state.
As far as Mrs. Wagner's ostensibly soliciting Detective Kelly. to kill her husband, it would take me five minutes to convince a jury. that was a confused and ultimately innocuous remark.
Pony Johnson, a real sweetheart, killed his girlfriend and his associate's girlfriend, but he tortured them, ostensibly for information, but more for fun.
These, ostensibly, hm, are the legendary cities of gold containing the Mayan treasure, which the Spanish conquistadors so desperately had sought.
Kennedy had just put a trade embargo on Cuba. ostensibly halting the shipment of Cuban-manufactured slacks. Incredibly popular item at the time.
Well, the subject was ostensibly about you.
I think what he means is the wick is the centre of the candle, and ostensibly a great leader, like yourself, is essential to the. whole ball of wax.
It's about vampires, ostensibly.

News and current affairs

With Israel, the terms are ostensibly simpler: in exchange for a stronger US security guarantee, Israel would accept the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.
But these ostensibly alarming figures can be misleading.
Libya had such EU restrictions lifted last October ostensibly for joining the fight against terrorism and abandoning its weapons of mass destruction.
With the exception of what appears to be a covert effort to force EU countries to raise corporate taxes to French and German levels, there is ostensibly nothing unreasonable in the Competitiveness Pact.
That worry was confirmed earlier this year when the European Commission curtailed negotiations with the first group of candidates, ostensibly to allow the others to catch-up.
Unlike the World Trade Organization, for example, no international treaty underpins the FSB, which means that countries cannot be sanctioned for failing to implement the standards to which they are ostensibly committed.
Companies exhibit similar behavior when it comes to acquiring innovative technologies, adhering to ineffective, restrictive processes, despite an ostensibly obvious alternative: the efficient systems that manufacturers use to secure inputs for production.
Europe's demands - ostensibly aimed at ensuring that Greece can service its foreign debt - are petulant, naive, and fundamentally self-destructive.
Ostensibly, President Bush has embarked on a new political and military strategy for the war-torn Iraq.
After a few months during which Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi ostensibly sought to improve his country's relations with China, his fifth visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine has again raised tempers.
Though the meeting was ostensibly about updating telephony regulations, the underlying issue was the ITU's role in Internet governance.
The BoJ and the BoE are following suit, putting even more pressure on the eurozone, where a stubborn ECB would rather kill any chance of recovery for the PIIGS than do more QE, ostensibly owing to fears of a rise in inflation.
In recent decades, social policies have increasingly involved some form of means testing of eligible beneficiaries, ostensibly to enhance cost effectiveness.
Haiti went into an economic tailspin when America imposed sanctions in the 1990's, ostensibly to re-establish democracy.
The Iraq war was ostensibly launched because of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, yet each passing day suggests that the threat was exaggerated.
A mammogram (x-ray of the breast) is administered to ostensibly healthy people to detect unsuspected disease.
COPENHAGEN - Last month, the Doha negotiations, promising freer trade, broke down, ostensibly over a small technicality in safeguard rules.
This meant that Solidarity - ostensibly a labor union - became a home for people from all social groups and classes in Poland: workers and intellectuals, engineers and artists, doctors and patients.
Ostensibly, this is just a matter of monetary housekeeping.
To top it all off, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, ostensibly Turkey's closest new ally, emerged as the most oppressive and bloody regional tyrant.
HONG KONG - The massive public demonstrations by students and young members of the middle-class that have roiled Hong Kong in recent weeks are ostensibly demands for democracy.
But now he has ostensibly resurfaced, like a Persian Cincinnatus, to help Iran in its hour of need.
Likewise, Shevardnadze resigned as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Georgia in the 1980s, ostensibly in protest against Soviet rule, only to be appointed Soviet Foreign Minister by Gorbachev.

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