Sentence examples for ostensible reason to from inspiring English sources

The ostensible reason: to watch his wife, Ann, deliver her speech Tuesday evening.

His metier – along with caviar from local sturgeon – is the ostensible reason to be there: a wonder of eagles, egrets, vultures, cranes, ibises, cormorants and pelicans.

That's different than famous people freaking it up on The Surreal Life or winking at their status on Dancing With the Stars... you know, shows where a participant's fame is the ostensible reason to watch.

The ostensible reason is to counteract any homesickness Elian may feel as he and his father await court rulings to determine whether the boy should remain in the United States as is the wish of Miami relatives who had cared for the boy after his shipwreck last November.

The ostensible reason is to discuss the disastrous opening, and even the people whose presence in the room is difficult to account for -- the prostitute and the switchboard operator, for instance, who nearly get into a fight -- get to express their opinions.

The ostensible reason was to protect children from porn, but Green Dam would also filter out politically sensitive terms and collect private user data.

The ostensible reason is to help in the fight against terrorists, bribers, drug dealers and tax evaders by making it more inconvenient for these bad guys to move around and store their ill-gotten cash.

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 reason is that to single out a single businessman, when Mr Lukashenka is supported by a whole network of them, would not be credible.

This was a weak apology from someone said to have been 'ill', which is the ostensible reason he was nowhere to be seen while Tepco staff and others were gamely and vainly trying to control its damaged Fukushima reactors.

The ostensible reason Cameron has flown to the other side of the world from his homes in California and New Zealand is to promote the 3D Blu-Ray disc of his world-swallowing multi-Oscar-winning 1997 film.