Sentence examples for ostensible problem from inspiring English sources

The ostensible problem is "scheduling reasons", but it appears to be Ukraine-related.

Policy outcomes emerge from interaction amongst different stakeholders and decision makers, all of whom are pursuing solutions to their own problems, rather than one ostensible problem like health [ 30, 91].

Another policy Trump is apparently interested in is called "repatriation," an ostensible solution to the problem of companies keeping profits overseas, where they can't be taxed.

Everyone not presently covered will be forced to buy private insurance -- the ostensible solution to the nettlesome problem of the 45 million uninsured Americans and the 20,000 people who die every year because they don't have health coverage.

Sabine goes to see Simon at home, and blithely remarks, a propos the Christmas decorations, that the Jews killed Christ; on a later visit, by way of ostensible apology, she states that the problem was not the "Jews and Christ" – she does not actually withdraw that claim – but the "Zionists".

Ostensible moderate Representative Charlie Dent had no problem propping up the war criminals of the Bush administration or opposing everything Obama did but found Trump a step too far.

It would be much wiser to play to capitalism's strength its flexibility and to encourage shareholders themselves, the ostensible owners of companies, to sort the problem out.

What seems to distinguish Buildings from the others, though, is not the severity or frequency of the problems, experts say, but its ostensible invulnerability to reform.

Further work into air quality problems in west London, one ostensible reason given for the delay, is expected to be concluded in the coming months by the Department for Transport.

You would think there might be a problem here: the food industry has one ostensible objective – and that's to sell food.

Three years later, he was making more money from his side job than from his ostensible main one.