(a.) Capable of being shown; proper or intended to be shown.
(a.) Shown; exhibited; declared; avowed; professed; apparent; -- often used as opposed to real or actual; as, an ostensible reason, motive, or aim.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2007 the Guardian disclosed that BAE had used an offshore front company, Red Diamond , to secretly pay £8.4m, 30% of the radar's ostensible price, into a Swiss account.
(2) Bell made the comment in response to a blogpost from Emily Bell , in which the Guardian columnist claimed that "the great VC‑backed media blitz of 2014", including Vox, FiveThirtyEight and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media, is being led almost exclusively by white males as it ostensibly aims to reform journalism.
(3) Deposition of laminin labelled exfoliation material in the dilator muscle was a noteworthy feature, as was an apparent depletion of laminin in the basement membranes of ostensibly unaffected vessels.
(4) endoparasiticus (Benedek) simulate the various types of micro-organism described by previous workers as associated with ostensibly noninfective conditions, notably cancer and arthritis; e.g., mycoplasmas, mycobacteria, corynebacteria and actinomycetes.
(5) These results demonstrate that intense anxiety can be associated with decreased rather than increased cortical perfusion and that ostensibly related states of anxiety (eg, anticipatory and obsessional anxiety) may be associated with opposite effects on regional cerebral blood flow.
(6) International aid officials admit that Russia's ostensibly humanitarian operation is particularly sensitive given the backdrop of what Ukraine claims is an undercover "hybrid" war waged by Moscow on Ukrainian territory.
(7) Ostensibly, Cook was there to take his place in the Alabama Academy of Honour, a distinction granted by the state legislature to its most accomplished citizens.
(8) 3. the high frequency of occult nodal metastases in NSCLC raises questions in regard to our presently used criteria for staging, prognosis and treatment of ostensibly stage I disease.
(9) As Marina tells it, she and Anatoly had taken what was ostensibly a holiday trip to Malaga, Spain.
(10) This mutation has previously been found in two Canadian patients who are members of ostensibly unrelated Mennonite families.
(11) These data suggest that, in spite of an ostensible predisposition to upper airway obstruction in the supine position and during rapid eye movement sleep, neither sleeping position nor sleep state appears to affect the rate of duration of apneic events.
(12) Given, for example, that over half of them have identified as devout, it is hard to imagine what would have persuaded the 11 peers behind an anti-Falconer paper, An Analysis of the Assisted Dying Bill , to look kindly upon its provisions, but the document constructs an ostensibly faith-free, "clear-thinking" case against, which is nonetheless replete with routine frighteners and selective misrepresentation.
(13) "It's going in two directions at the same time: ostensibly allowing more banning, but also easier authorisation at the EU level," she said.
(14) He ends the song with something that is ostensibly scat but sounds like an old man being scared witless by a spider.
(15) Marco Rubio officially entered the race for the White House on Monday, declaring that “yesterday is over” and that the 2016 US presidential campaign would pose “a generational choice” – ostensibly toward what the Florida senator called “a new American future” but also between himself, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush.
(16) The obsession of "For Fatherland and Freedom" to pay public homage to the Latvian-SS Legion in contradiction to all historical logic and sensitivity to Nazi crimes is not a product of ostensibly harmless nostalgia as Pickles would have us believe, but part of a rather insidious plan to gain recognition for a perversely distorted version of European history which will officially equate Communism with Nazism.
(17) The proponents of automated anesthetic records list the ostensibly logical reasons for them and then claim that automated records will make everything better.
(18) The conclusions were drawn: that Q(s) reflected the pumping of cations to restore the ionic imbalance following activity, particularly reflecting the extrusion of sodium ions from the fibre; that this pumping was normally absolutely dependent on the presence of potassium externally and that no pumping could occur in its absence; and that Q(s) was not reduced to zero in ostensibly potassium-free solutions because enough potassium was released into the periaxonal space during activity to maintain pumping.6.
(19) Ostensibly, Ukip’s binding principle was a belief in Britain’s exit from the European Union, a process that has now begun under Tory auspices.
(20) Assisted reproductive technologies have enhanced our understanding of the physiopathology of spermatozoal disorders and also have ostensibly improved pregnancy rates in male factor patients.
Purport
Definition:
(n.) Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.
(n.) Disguise; covering.
(n.) To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three strains of C. burnetii were studied because of the purported propensity of each strain to cause acute or chronic disease and to be resistant or susceptible to antibiotics.
(2) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
(3) We have studied the effect of a calcium ionophore, A23187, and the purported calmodulin inhibitors, calmidazolium and chlorpromazine, on direct intercellular communication between smooth muscle cells in the myometrium of delivering rats.
(4) It exploded when leading daily El Pais published copies of account ledgers purportedly showing irregular payments to top party members including Rajoy, its leader since 2004.
(5) Every story evolves with the speed of fact, not commentary or speculation.” In the case of MH17, Storyful published a blog outlining the key steps it took in verifying the information it gathered from social media, including searching through Twitter posts associated with the Donetsk People’s Republic – many of them since deleted – looking for historical references to surface-to-air missile systems, geolocating YouTube videos purporting to show the missile system in eastern Ukraine prior to the crash and verifying videos from the crash site.
(6) The sigma subunit regions purportedly involved in core enzyme binding and DNA promoter recognition were also highly conserved, despite the lack of a DNA promoter consensus sequence between E. coli and C. trachomatis promoters and the inability of E. coli holoenzyme to specifically transcribe chlamydial genes.
(7) The traffic was 10% higher than for the site's previous busiest day in the UK, which came on 9 May when the media reported on the creation of an account on the site which purported to name those who had taken out superinjunctions to prevent details being reported.
(8) Chaytor had claimed £12,925 between 2005 and 2006 for renting a flat in Regency Street, Westminster, producing a tenancy agreement purporting to show that he was paying £1,175 a month in rent to the landlord, Sarah Elizabeth Rastrick.
(9) Calls are also sensitive to a variety of purported anxiolytic and anxiogenic drugs, including the benzodiazepines, serotonin agonists, and ligands at the NMDA-glycine receptor complex.
(10) These findings are most consistent with a generalized abnormality in complex information processing and would not support theories purporting fundamental deficits in attention or information acquisition.
(11) But even more than the state’s failure to rescue the 21 hostages, who were believed to have been taken in separate incidents during December and January, Egyptians are criticising Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for ordering airstrikes on purported Isis hideouts in Libya without a clear plan to evacuate Egyptians living in the country.
(12) The possibility that receptors may be so placed in other species warrants further work especially in those purported to lack any receptor.
(13) And it helps you spot phishing emails, because if an email appears in your shopping account purporting to come from your bank, for example, you'll immediately know it's a fake.
(14) They want to send a very clear message to China that they are serious about this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest This image from the US navy purportedly shows Chinese dredging vessels in the waters around Mischief reef in the disputed Spratly archipelago in May 2015.
(15) Cell-mediated cytolytic (CMC) responses resulted from immunizations between rat strains purported to be identical at Ag-B, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), but differing at other loci not linked to Ag-B.
(16) Because, you see, I have a hard time understanding why my wanting to stand up for democratic principles makes me unpatriotic, while the ones calling themselves patriots seem to think so little of the people and the principles that comprise the country they purport to love.
(17) At this time the information on these purported interactions is quite limited and there are far more questions than answers.
(18) A court in Egypt has sentenced eight men to three years in prison for appearing in a video that purported to show a gay wedding.
(19) Cognitive therapy is often used in treating attention-deficit-disordered (ADD) children because of its purported ability to address this population's attentional deficits and behavioral difficulties and to create durable therapeutic effects.
(20) This is a case report of a purported panencephalopathic type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob (C-J) disease in a 61-year-old Japanese farmer.