Sentence examples for is only ostensible from inspiring English sources

Their responsibility is only ostensible.

When all is said and done, the homogeneity of the "fully vaccinated" group of children is only ostensible, and health regions that are considered to be high-performing in terms of coverage may actually be performing at a mediocre level if we take into account the children's age at vaccination and the degree to which the vaccination schedules of the target populations were respected.

For San Franciscans, the ten lanes are most likely to be played during ironic corporate team-building exercises or ennui-charged 'tween birthday parties, but the bowling is only the ostensible reason people would knock down the pins at Lucky Strike.

Even Putin's ostensible longtime mistress is only No. 7 on this list of things that Russians want to know.

Their collective coolness (and attractiveness) was the only ostensible common denominator.

Then, as now, the Republican Party was shifting in ways that were only peripherally visible to its ostensible leaders.

The documents released under FOI were only mentioned incidentally; they provided the ostensible angle for the story, which obviously was driven by an agenda of denigrating Judy's work and anyone associated with it (Martin 2014).

They made it clear that the ostensible question before the court, whether the votes now being manually recounted would count, was only part of the problem.

Prominently shown in the ad is the ostensible company's Web site, called www.bagotronics.com.com

What is Phthisis' ostensible advantage?

Skywalker's absence has inspired such frenzied speculation not only because Hamill was the ostensible star of the original Star Wars trilogy, but also because Abrams has previously revealed the question, "Who is Luke Skywalker?" inspired him to sign on for the long-running space opera.