As an advocate, she sought to convince the Court that legislation ostensibly designed to benefit or protect women could often have the opposite effect.

Dr. Willner sets out to hedge the school with sinister new regulations, ostensibly designed to protect the students.

These laws are ostensibly designed to give the woman time for reflection, but their practical result is to make the trip harder and more expensive.

Watching six people struggle to fit comfortably into a space ostensibly designed for eight is not a pretty sight.

"While changes to the sponsorship identification rules are designed ostensibly to help the public interest, the real world effect could be the opposite."

Life at the Mas Cabestainh was ostensibly designed for the enjoyment and production of art.

On April 1, 1997, the magazine publicized an alleged "revamp," ostensibly designed to reach an older, more sophisticated readership.

Ostensibly designed to enhance national security, it could lead to an invasion of personal privacy on a massive scale.

Ostensibly designed to help poor African consumers, the beef programme is really aimed at helping rich European farmers.

This emergency exit had been designed into the Ilanatava ostensibly as a precaution against foreign attack.