Mr. Surkov, a former advertising executive, coined the phrase "sovereign democracy" to describe the political system under President Vladimir V. Putin, a system that preserved popular elections but stripped them of meaning by closely manipulating the process, ostensibly to protect Russia from outside meddling.
He's trying to ban the use of certain kinds of studies in the rule-making process, ostensibly to make the process more transparent, but this will just serve to make it more difficult for the agency to issue new regulations.
It is a process that is ostensibly designed to 'save' archaeological and other cultural heritage for 'future generations'.
For controls, one specimen of lung tissue from a normal donor and 11 specimens of uninvolved lung tissue from patients with lung cancer were processed, ostensibly free of interstitial lung disease.
This trick shows one word at a time in rapid succession, a process that lets you ostensibly read at a high rate of speed.
Though ostensibly a process to appeal, internal remedies and established channels actually function to identify those who are aggrieved, screen their evidence, and dispose of them both.
The legal profession is the most powerful body within our country, and like the military, oversight is an internal process -- ostensibly overseen by the very individuals responsible for interpreting legislation.
While NVC is ostensibly taught as a process of communication designed to improve compassionate connection to others, it has also been interpreted as a spiritual practice, a set of values, a parenting technique, an educational method and a worldview.
The Coens are, in a sense, a logical evolution of this process: their ostensibly mannered, knowing films are the product of third-generation Jewish Americans who actually grew up in the midwestern milieu that took its culture from the movies.
Or consider the most recent development in the college-application process, another ostensibly kind and humanizing change that will extend the reach of the admissions office even further into the lives of high-school students and their families, and the culture of the schools themselves.
