The phrase "apparent cooperation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where cooperation seems to exist, but may not be genuine or fully realized.
Example: "The apparent cooperation between the two companies raised suspicions about their true intentions."
Alternatives: "seeming collaboration" or "ostensible partnership".
And so the government, with the apparent cooperation of major telecommunication companies, intercepts the switches to access the data it needs to observe potential threats.
People close to Mr. Powell said Sunday that they had no doubt he would weather any criticism from within over his apparent cooperation with Mr. Woodward, an assistant managing editor at The Washington Post.
Human-rights activists have expressed concern about the apparent cooperation between army and the plainclothes enforcers who attacked the protesters on March 9, because Mr. Mubarak's government regularly deployed them to beat and intimidate people.
They asserted that the series of raids — and the apparent cooperation of the leader arrested last month — has devastated its leadership ranks, its financing and possibly its links to Al Qaeda's international leaders on the borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
John R. Wing, a lawyer for Peter Madoff, said he had been unaware of Mr. Kugel's apparent cooperation with the government and repeated that his client had no knowledge of the Madoff fraud, which cost thousands of investors $64.8 billion in paper losses and roughly $18 billion in cash.
And as for his apparent cooperation with the media out in Helmand, it seems to have happened under duress: "I never wanted you guys to be out here".
Rolleman et al. have documented the situation of an apparent positive cooperation between non-labeled somatostatin (SST) analogs and a radio-labeled compound in vivo [1].
Qualitatively the same trends are apparent when cooperation is less costly (Fig. 1, right column).
However, it soon became apparent that the cooperation was valuable.
The report identified the state department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security and Bureau of Near East Affairs for criticism over their apparent lack of cooperation and ensuing confusion with regards to protection.
