11.  The ostensible reason for this unseemly haste is that Medicare is in financial difficulty.

12.  The ostensible reason is that we have an obligation to fellow citizens rendered helpless by a natural disaster beyond their control.

13.  The ostensible reason the Eagle is being sold sits on the fringes of downtown here, a former paper mill known as the Clock Tower.

14.  The ostensible reason for the trip was to give the German chancellor an opportunity to test his angling skills on the pristine lakes of the Canadian Arctic.

15.  The ostensible reason was that each government accused the other of incursions across the poorly marked common border.

16.  But this is believed to be only the ostensible reason for his absence from Japan and he probably passed through Alaska on his way to London, it said.

17.  The Bihac crisis is the ostensible reason given by Zagreb for the Croatian thrust deep into a traditionally Serb part of Bosnia.