Sentence examples for ostensible shortcomings from inspiring English sources

This is what it takes to thwart a conversation about the ostensible shortcomings in black culture, from parenting to rap music, which – some claim – make such policing inevitable and instead concentrate on the pathology of state violence.

Developing strategies other than disclosure, divestment and recusal are important given some of the shortcomings in these mechanisms noted above, as well as the apparent necessity of industry-surgeon links to facilitate device innovation,n and the ostensible tolerance of surgeons to conflicts of interest discussed earlier.

The ostensible reason — get this!

At least, ostensible ones.

Shortcomings remain.

Any shortcomings?

His ostensible mandate was reform.

But there are shortcomings.

And its own shortcomings.

All have serious shortcomings.

Mr. Rove acknowledged shortcomings.