ostensible

• “And none of the hedge fund geniuses think to actually pick up the phone and call the ostensible issuer of the notes just to check and see that the notes are real and Dreier is authorized to peddle them.”

  Ron Kuby: A "Dryer" Version of Madoff

• “They have exercised the right to determine from the circumstances whether the ostensible was the real destination.”

  The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915

• “Philip, at whose request he had come, had charged him by no means to divulge the secret, as the King was anxious to have it believed that the ostensible was the only business which the prelate had to perform in the country.”

  The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 10: 1566, part I

• “Truth is, the titular subject is entirely ostensible, which is both the film's charm and its greatest limitation," writes”

  GreenCine Daily

• “I say, "ostensible," because, in fact, the paramilitaries have rarely fought guerrillas themselves, but rather, have targeted civilians struggling peacefully for social change - for example, trade unionists, peasant leaders, teachers and Catholic priests advocating for the poor.”

  Dan Kovalik: Bush To Host Colombian Death Squad President

• “That alone would make it a collector's item, but it's particularly notable because the ostensible premise of Nabokov's best-known novel ( "ostensible" because Lolita is not simply about an older man's affair with a preteenage girl) caused a scandal that kept the book itself from finding an American publisher for nearly three more years.”

  The Believer

• “As for the Kols, what Dalton says about the Mundas (194) not only indicates that parental interference is more than "ostensible," but makes clear that what these girls enjoy is not free choice but what is euphemistically called "free love," before marriage:”

  Primitive Love and Love-Stories

• “By these we mean the introducing houses, such as ostensible millinery establishments and the like in fashionable but retired streets, where ladies meet their lovers.”

  Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.

• “[Footnote 608: 'Praedia urbana vel rustica.'] [Footnote 609: The punishment consisted in loss of all claim to the property -- which was generally seized by someone who had some kind of ostensible claim to it -- and a penalty of equal value with that of the property wrongfully seized.] 'II.”

  The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator

• “[10] Also, it does state Tascón's intention for publicly posting the list (although it expresses doubt that this was the real reason, saying this was the "ostensible" reason).”

  Venezuela Analysis

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