(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.
Semblance
Definition:
(a.) Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.
(a.) Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those who fear poverty, look it straight in the eye at the end of every month, face a constant battle to avoid it or slip in and out of it while struggling to retain every semblance of middle-class stability.
(2) And which, in the case of Scarlett and MacKeown, grasps at any semblance of 'otherness', because the truth (it could easily happen to your child) is too unbearable to contemplate.
(3) The spiral of distrust may continue without a semblance of the following remedies.
(4) "There can be no semblance of equality before the law when those who cannot afford to pay a lawyer privately go unrepresented or receive a worse kind representation than those who can," it says.
(5) Some investigators have argued that peripheral NE levels bear little semblance to sympathetic nervous system activity affecting the cardiovascular system.
(6) The vast majority of EU states opposed the shift, but assented in order to preserve a semblance of unified policy.
(7) The third gene, 5a, is remarkable in having a 3'-exon that encodes an exceptionally long, Ala-rich sequence that lacks any semblance of the 11-amino acid repeats found in 11-3, F2 and functional AFP genes.
(8) A parliamentary session on Friday did nothing to restore any semblance of stability after the government collapsed on Thursday night.
(9) Webb might well have shown Van Bommel a red card before the interval but was most likely trying to bring about some semblance of calm.
(10) The nearer you get, the more these semblances of reality seem to disappear.
(11) Lastly, cities must be very careful about what to bring online, both to maintain some semblance of privacy for its citizens and to protect them from cyber attacks.
(12) Until the early 2000s, Eritrea had the semblance of a judicial system.
(13) The desire to avoid any semblance of invasion is understandable, given the past few years in Afghanistan and Iraq.
(14) Few leaders now rule without some semblance of democratic process.
(15) Granted their recent run of defeats has come against teams at the top end of the division but too often Christian Benteke was left isolated here, with only gabriel Agbonlahor providing any semblance of attacking verve in the final third.
(16) And as someone who lacks any semblance of design and engineering skills, I need to make room for myself on the curriculum.
(17) Minimally biased evaluation of a new method requires a randomized, double-blind (or its nearest semblance), multicentered study of sexually active women.
(18) How this happened After a decade that saw leaders come and go in quick succession, Abe has managed to close the revolving door to the prime minister’s office and secure some semblance of stability.
(19) Tsunami survivors are attempting to put the events of 11 March behind them as they struggle to regain some semblance of normal civic life.
(20) Famine is always present under the surface claiming families and individual hamlets and breaks through when the semblance of equilibrium between minimal food requirement for survival and supply is disturbed by natural or man-made disaster.