She hadn't seen the old man since the day before, when he went out, ostensibly seeking employment.

In it, Mr. Zetsche played a nosy neighbor ostensibly seeking strudel but actually doling out car advice.

China should be left in no doubt, however, that using the Gwadar port for its military would increase tensions and weaken the energy security that it ostensibly seeks.

The US forces ostensibly sought to negotiate a settlement but promised to restart its offensive to retake the city if one was not reached.

Referred to as the Visitors, they reach out in friendship, ostensibly seeking the help of humans to obtain chemicals and minerals needed to aid their ailing world.

Operation Clean-Up, which ostensibly sought to eliminate all terrorists irrespective of their political affiliation, began in June 1992.

The Mass Line is a method of leadership that seeks ostensibly to "learn from the peasants."

Or - worse yet - is it a blatant political power play motivated by the same partisan excesses it ostensibly seeks to eliminate in our city's schools?

Grey sauntered unobtrusively to an open window, where he stood, hands folded behind him, ostensibly seeking air as an antidote to the fug inside the room.

Polish authorities have a record of jailing objectors who seek ostensibly available alternative service.