He, too, was unsuccessful; and a few months later he was dismissed with some English money and ostensible assurances of support.
It is true that he made an ostensible offer on the franchise question, but that proposal was made dependent on so many conditions that it was a palpable sham.
The ostensible cause of a modern labour dispute is frequently not the real or the most important cause.
The ostensible motive for the assassination was a desire to avenge Asahel, and this would be a sufficient justification for the deed according to the moral standard of the time.
A confederation of separate states under the supremacy of the pope was the genuine ideal of Balbo, as it was the ostensible one of Gioberti.
