The ostensible cause of his removal was the unexpected reappearance of his two other acquaintances walking and talking laboriously along the way, with the black head bent close to the brown one.

Your Quest, you will recall, is the ostensible cause of that rebellion.

This last was the ostensible cause of Iran's air raid.

It then flashes the ostensible cause of the cry.

What the book is really about is not so much the President's state of mind in 1987 and his staff's reaction to it as its ostensible causes, namely the events of the two preceding years.

The ostensible cause is drought.

The results only were important; and those results, the Lensman discovered, were entirely disproportionate to the ostensible causes.

It was a given that he was going to be even more let down, as there was, as of yet, no ostensible cause for his son's untimely death.

Below, the men did not fall into ranks again, but sat by the road-side, or stood in groups talking, discussing with a novel incredulity the ostensible causes of the war.

The ostensible cause was the future Charles III of Austria (1711-1740) claiming the vacant Spanish throne in 1701.