Sentences with phrase «ostensible reason»
"Ostensible reason" refers to a seemingly valid or believable explanation or justification for something, but it may not be the true or actual reason behind it. Full definition
They often try to hide it and come up with ostensible reasons for opposing the same things, but underlying it is always their religion.
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The episode (which the Mapplethorpe Foundation, a sponsor of the show, protested), evoked the Corcoran's cancellation of «The Perfect Moment back» in 1989 for the same ostensible reason.
He critiques the authors of the security strategy document for failing to listen to the many opponents of the policy, and for neglecting to analyze critically the threat to America that is ostensible reason for the document.
The ostensible reason: to incentivize dank meme creation online.
It is worth remembering that behind our ostensible reasons for believing or not believing a thing there are often unconscious reasons which go very deep.
Theological disagreement has been one of the ostensible reasons for division in the church in centuries past — perhaps even a primary reason.
But neither Harary nor Malpass would endorse all 10 points of Cuomo's Women's Equality Agenda, the ostensible reason for the party's existence — an agenda that would codify the right to obtain an abortion, a host of anti-housing discrimination statutes and the right of attorneys to recover fees in employment, credit and lending cases.
The ostensible reason for her journey is to discover who her real father is - she assumes he is residing at the villa - and she also hopes to rekindle a relationship with a young man she met four years earlier.
The ostensible reason for the bust - up is her fling with a dull office worker (Kevin Bacon), but mainly she just seems tired, confused, upset — in other words, according to the rules of this remarriage genre, she is likely to come back to Cal once she figures things out.
When he had a larger network of friends — that period, about ten years ago, when everybody seemed to be between marriages — our ostensible reason for going somewhere would often be that we were on a mercy mission to cheer up so - and - so.
The ostensible reason is to fund the ongoing lawsuit with the State of New York as well as to fund ongoing operations.
The ostensible reason for Schjeldahl's rebuffed overture to the artist was the exhibition, David Hammons: Five Decades, at Mnuchin Gallery (March 15 — May 27, 2016).
That finding is not enough for an article, and so it has been paraded out as the ostensible reason for a write up whose larger purpose is to further a political agenda.