Meanings of ostensible cause in English

The state of his health was the ostensible cause of his departure.

To please me, her cousin; this is, indeed, the ostensible cause.

The ostensible cause of her removal was to make room for other prisoners.

A political difference as an ostensible cause of quarrel soon developed.

Disagreement on Irish Water may yet be the ostensible cause of a general election.

The ostensible cause was the future status of the negro.

The ostensible cause of the war in this region was the murder of a French missionary.

The ostensible cause was the money issue.

Loss of voice, occasional blindness, vertigo, complete insanity, with sleeplessness, frequent weeping without any ostensible cause, were all usual symptoms.

She did go, however, taking with her Ballanche and her adopted daughter, whose delicate health was the ostensible cause of her departure.

Thurston met many of his friends in the village, and in an off-hand manner explained to them the ostensible cause of his journey.

We often find in some battle, lost or won, the ostensible cause of a revolution which was inevitable before this battle took place.

So the ostensible cause of the revolt, which soon became general, was a fidelity to their rightful Emperor, who was being illegally deposed.

There was, however, no ostensible cause for uneasiness and he rode on quietly, until he heard a soft rustling among the slender trunks.

Syracuse, after her triumph over the Athenian forces, continued the contest with her neighbours, which had been the ostensible cause of the Athenian expedition.

When at last Campeggio reached London, still suffering seriously from the gout which was the ostensible cause of his dilatory journeying, Wolsey was explicit.