Sentence examples similar to ostensible worry from inspiring English sources

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.

No data supported this ostensible concern, as Rothstein notes.

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

If the Fed raises interest rates, the ostensible motivation would be that it is worried that the U.S. economy was growing too quickly and creating too many jobs.

Much of the evidence came from the earlier arrest of Rafael Cedeño Hernández, a leader of La Familia who also ran youth centres with the ostensible aim of preventing drug addiction.But critics worry that the raid is just a fishing expedition and that the government may lack the evidence it needs to secure convictions.

After a while, the ostensible victim complains of a headache.

By the spring of 1999, I was told, Mr. Yeltsin had become worried that Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, his ostensible successor, had become "too close to the Communists".

When ostensible free traders start arguing like this, one really begins to worry.

The ostensible reason — get this!

At least, ostensible ones.

His ostensible mandate was reform.