Ending the dividend tax will not provide the economy with a short-term stimulus - the ostensible goal of the plan.

Its ostensible goal is to establish an Iranian-style Islamic Republic in Iraq.

The Aborigines Act of 1905 authorized the removal of the children with the ostensible goal of training them to function in white society.

But the ostensible goal of soft money is party building, which lawmakers tend to favor.

The ostensible goal of the first five-year phase was to test the vaccine's effectiveness on individual does in the wild.

Its ostensible goal was Selinus, its real aim Syracuse.

To the Editor: One of the ostensible goals of the war in Iraq was to ensure freedom for the Iraqi people.

Though many responded back with e-mails notifying Downey of their participation, the project was a failure in its ostensible goal.

Its ostensible goal is to share related Eskimo artifacts from paleolithic times through the 19th century that have been divided between the two countries for many years.

The ostensible goal was to deny economic benefits to hostile foreign countries.