Sentence examples for ostensible fear from inspiring English sources

It also knows, as we need to learn, that Israel's ostensible fear of an Iranian nuclear attack is simply the understanding that a nuclear armed Iran would limit Israel's regional hegemony.

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

The Syrian autocrat has previously tried to win support abroad by playing up his ostensible secularism and fear about radical Islam.

The ostensible reasons had to do with fears that the evidence might not hold up in court, and political embarrassment after several other recent intelligence scandals.

The ostensible justification for the REINS Act is a fear of executive overreach.

Experts dismiss its ostensible worries about its purpose: the intrusiveness of the radar, and the "interoperability" of the system ie, the fear that it might be linked up with those already deployed in Japan and Guam, and that it might eventually even be rolled out in India, encircling China.

Although horse-racing is its ostensible subject and the races are dynamically shot and edited, Seabiscuit is a populist epic about the hopes and fears, collapse and recovery of the United States in the first 40 years of the twentieth century with the horse as a sym bol of America itself.

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At least, ostensible ones.

His ostensible mandate was reform.

Natalia Sindeeva, Dozhd's general director, fears that advertisers will flee as the channel loses viewers, threatening the newsroom's fiscal health and putting the channel on the "direct route to death .The ostensible reason for Dozhd's troubles is outrage over a poll the channel put to viewers as part of its coverage of the 70th anniversary of the end of the Leningrad blockade.