Sentence examples similar to ostensible importance from inspiring English sources

Quayle, Vaughan, and Taylor [ 7] also underline the importance of the ostensible anonymity of the Internet for the consumption of Internet child pornography, as it does not require contacting a dealer and the material can easily be acquired at home.

While dismissing the importance of home computing and digital entertainment, they sponsored paramilitary computer clubs whose ostensible goal was to train expert cadres for the army and the centrally planned economy.

The ostensible purpose of this sentence at this point, as I take it, in Milton's argument is to explain the importance of censorship; but surely this sentence has an entirely different effect on us as readers, a different effect than the syntax or the logic of this sentence may demand.

The ostensible reason — get this!

At least, ostensible ones.

The ostensible reason: so-called Communist influence.

His ostensible mandate was reform.

His ostensible crimes were espionage and terrorism.

The past weeks have seen challenges based on ostensible felony status in Florida, ostensible deaths in North Carolina and ostensible address problems in Ohio, among others.

These 10 ostensible proofs are stated as follows.

There were ostensible villains and losers as well.