Sentence examples for ostensible cause from inspiring English sources

The ostensible cause of Mrs Bandaranayake's impeachment was alleged corruption.

The ostensible cause, analysts said, is a shortage of low-income housing that has been exacerbated by high inflation and a boom in immigration.

The ostensible cause of his jailing is a striking graphic novel, The Use of Life, produced in collaboration with the artist Ayman Zorkani.

An ostensible cause of the tensions is a small splattering of uninhibited islands — known as Senkaku by the Japanese and Diaoyu by the Chinese — to which both nations have laid fierce claim but which Japan currently administers.

Omega commissions were the ostensible cause of the famous falling out between Fry and Wyndham Lewis, the powerhouse of a writer and artist who had signed on with the Bloomsbury craft folk as a designer.

"In the course of the trial, Private Manning insists that his release of the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs to WikiLeaks was an act of conscience, justified by the urgent need to reveal to the world the atrocities committed by the US military in the ostensible cause of freedom.

In Bickham's opinion, the war continued after the evaporation of its ostensible causes because a larger issue was at stake: "whether or not the United States would be respected as a sovereign nation".

The stains and the teasing that ensued (and continues) are ostensible causes of his timidity, though it's unclear who's responsible for Jamie's indistinct facial cues (is he smiling or grimacing?), the actor or his director.

As the rubble from the protests was cleared away this week and La Paz returned to normal, the question facing Mr Mesa was whether or not he could put his country back together again.His task is not made any easier by the ostensible causes of the protests.

Ovid's erotic poetry was enormously popular, but ran afoul of the Augustan moral programme; it was one of the ostensible causes for which the emperor exiled him to Tomis (present-day Constanţa, Romania), where he remained to the end of his life.

Among Keynes's Bloomsbury friends, Lopokova was, at least initially, subjected to criticism for her manners, mode of conversation and supposedly humble social origins – the latter of the ostensible causes being particularly noted in the letters of Vanessa and Clive Bell, and Virginia Woolf.