His ostensible aim was to protect the nation from another Haitian annexation.

The demonstrators' ostensible aim was to urge the government to exercise whatever influence it could in support of the liberation of Poland.

It was ambivalent in its aims and constructed powers whose ostensible aim was that they should be equally applied but its underlying aim was to control a particular "problem" group.

The ostensible aim of the guerilla campaign was to frighten Hari Singh into submission.

In the hands of many such men, 'rescue' meant a punitive and puritanical regime which reinforced the status of prostitutes as fallen women, though the ostensible aim was rehabilitation.

The ostensible aim of this project was to regenerate Spain through the awakening of a new sense of national identity.

The ostensible aim of the offensive, breaking the morale of the German working class, must be considered a failure.

Hynek suggested that some older UFO reports should be reevaluated, with the ostensible aim of moving them from the "unknown" to the "identified" category.

Its ostensible aim was to preserve the Catholic faith, the Inquisition's beginning in 1561 and its temporary abolition in 1774, some 16,202 persons were brought to trial by the Inquisition.

The cordon is then maintained for a number of hours: the ostensible aim is to leave would-be "violent" protesters too tired to do anything but want to go home.