Sentence examples for ostensible concern from inspiring English sources

Then, as now with turbans, safety was the soccer federation's ostensible concern.

This involves a guiltless investment of solitude with no ostensible concern for one's fellow man.

But the film is careful not to be too critical of its subject or to stray too far into speculation about the inner life that is its ostensible concern.

Decade after decade, we see her dissecting South Africa's censorship laws, showing how their ostensible concern for public decency is really just an excuse for the suppression of dissent.

It is his evocation of the smells and tastes of poverty - the texture of poverty - that the book is most effective and not in its ostensible concern with the horrors of global warfare.

The Park Service bars the viewing of these activities out of an ostensible concern "for the safety and welfare of the public, staff, and bison".

There are two ostensible concerns that negative states of affairs present.

The ostensible reason was legal concerns over inflammatory words spoken by a Sinn Fein speaker at a Belfast rally who urged Irishmen to fight using whatever weapons they could get their hands on.

"Nora Ephron" was the two-word answer to every ridiculous yet bizarrely persistent cliché concerning the ostensible fact that women.

The ostensible reason for the delay is concern for national security, but in fact the obstacles are mostly bureaucratic.

It was shot in 1930 but not released until 1932, due to the censors' concerns regarding its violence and ostensible glorification of crime.