Target has already come under intense scrutiny for the $150,000 it has given to a Minnesota-based group for the ostensible purposes of influencing the governor's race.
Although the start-up firm was initially successful, it faced difficulties under the influence of "ostensible customers" who provided insights that were counterproductive in the process of really new innovation.
In other words, the cognitive deficits may have an influence on ostensible personality traits in Parkinson's disease patients.
The ostensible reason: so-called Communist influence.
But though influence is the ostensible theme, this is no dry art-historical exercise.
Andrew Anglin, founder of leading neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer, last year christened synthwave the "soundtrack of the alt-right," praising it as "the Whitest music ever [sic]" for its ostensible lack of African rhythmic influence.
The priests who managed these powerful institutions wielded considerable influence, and despite their ostensible subordination to the king they may have posed significant challenges to his authority.
Moreover, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh is trying to lure Saudi Arabia to pay the cost of his return to power - directly or through his son - leveraging his influence with the Houthis and his ostensible ability to rein them in.
The regulatory laxity of the nation's ostensible financial guardians was enabled and encouraged by the undue influence of banks and other financial institutions on the agencies that were supposed to be regulating them.
Elyria's ostensible destination is the farm of Werner, a well-known poet ("Novelists and filmmakers cited him as a major influence") whom she meets once in New York, at a reading; afterwards, he off-handedly invites her to stay at his place in New Zealand, scrawling an address on a scrap of paper.
The ostensible reason — get this!
