In December, Lord Palmerston resigned office, the ostensible reason being his opposition to the contemplated Reform Bill of the Government.
The Queen expects better results from such a negotiation, with an ostensible head of a Party, than from attempts to detach single individuals from it, which from a sense of honour they always felt scruples in agreeing to.
As to Ireland, he had thought of having a more ostensible Lord-Lieutenant, whilst the business should be done by the Secretary for Ireland.
His lavish expenditure, so much beyond his ostensible means, gave rise to the belief that he was supplied from above with money.
But this evasion denotes that the abolition of Paganism was ostensible only, as it was still practised in secret.
The ostensible leader of this conspiracy was the king’s cousin Jodok, the Margrave of Moravia; but perhaps its most powerful member was Henry of Rosenberg.
Achilles, whose quarrel with Agamemnon is the ostensible subject of the poem, is son to a marine goddess named Thetis, who had rendered Jove an important service at a time when he was in great difficulties.
The ostensible object of the procession was to present petitions to the king and the Assembly on the dismissal of Roland and his colleagues from the administration, and on the refusal of the royal assent to the decree against the priests.
Henceforth the waves of his fortune plashed to and fro until his abdication without much ostensible loss or gain.
That teaches us what we ought to believe in history as it is compiled according to ostensibleevents and results known to the generality of people.
When her husband was roused by the thought of the churches, then she became hostile to the ostensible church, she hated it for not fulfilling anything in her.
She would admit the outside world again, she would throw away the living fruit for the ostensible rind.
In the assault on the Missouri Compromise which broke down all legal barriers to the spread of slavery Stephen Arnold Douglas was the ostensible leader and central figure; and Douglas was a Senator from Illinois, Lincoln's State.
He saw no ostensible reason for Jenny's hesitation; he was either sure that she would say yes if forced to an answer, or he made up his mind at last to take the risk.
His ostensible reference might be to his uncomfortable relations toward his neighbors; I was sure that he meant more than that--and did not mind letting me see it.
Our ostensible purpose was to go to Cartmell's office, to transact some legal business; as he could easily have brought his papers up to the Priory, this did not seem very convincing.
As an ostensible reason for the public, McDowell's request for a Court of Inquiry upon his own conduct was assumed to imply a desire to be relieved from the command of his corps.
The speech of the minister is one of high importance, as giving the ostensible reasons for the unexampled act of destruction by which it was followed.
In every case the ostensible destination is Quebec.
I am persuaded that behind the cloak of his ostensible objects lies ambition or revenge, or perhaps both, pointing to extreme and highly dangerous action.
The traveller who should make it his specialty to discover and note the ostensible merrymakings and pageants of America would find the list neither brief nor monotonous.
Thus the laws of honourable warfare are basely set aside; and cowardice often wins an ostensible triumph.
Lorien told me all this before he left us, adding that he felt certain Leonard's object in coming again to Georgetown was quite as much to arrange for an expedition as his ostensible one of looking after his property.
Without waiting for an invitation he walked straight up to the carriage with the ostensible purpose of greeting Sylvia, who was a great favorite of his, and who in her turn had a romantic admiration for the tall young assistant.
They were circling around and around the shadowy interior, making no pretense of looking at the frescoed walls, to examine which had been their ostensible purpose in entering.
In the first place, let us look at the nature and powers of the head of that country, and those of the ostensible head of ours.
To trace each real and ostensible objection up to its proper course, would be a task equally invidious, irksome and unnecessary.
Although a very great variety of ostensible objections have been publicly offered, the real and sincere objections are hardly ever disclosed in private.
Afterward he recovered sufficiently to get himself out of Palembang, and after that out of Muntok and Batavia and Banjermassin and other places where he had no ostensible business to be.
A month later she had been spoken by a Sydney steamer up among the Bismarck Group, where she had noostensible business to be.
The ostensible aims of the expedition were colonial.
I have already said this was their ostensible plea, but the real reason was his determination to exterminate feudalism and establish democratic institutions as soon as he could bring the different factions into harmony.
I cannot deny that Miss Woodhouse was my ostensible object--but I am sure you will believe the declaration, that had I not been convinced of her indifference, I would not have been induced by any selfish views to go on.
His ostensible reason, however, was to ask whether Mr. Woodhouse's party could be made up in the evening without him, or whether he should be in the smallest degree necessary at Hartfield.
