The ostensible justification for the REINS Act is a fear of executive overreach.
Happily for all, the fundamental guaranties of the Constitution cannot be freely submerged if and whenever some ostensible justification is advanced and the police power invoked.
Some Russian journalists and politicians suspect that the authorities had a hand in the mysterious bombs, in the autumn of 1999, that were its ostensible justification.
Phoney accounts mean that much of the profit growth of the late 1990s, the ostensible justification for Wall Street's bubbling up to its ephemeral heights, was equally phoney.
While the ostensible justification for this rule is to root out any pro-EPA bias, the effect is to disqualify the best scientists from advising the agency.
OSTENSIBLE JUSTIFICATION for a spate of Republican-sponsored voter ID laws — which would require voters to present government-issued photo ID at the polls — has been the threat of voter fraud, specifically, in-person voter impersonation.
The ostensible justification for these tariffs was national security; but as was widely noted from the start – although this probably came as news to the Trumpies – most U.S. steel imports come from American allies.
The ostensible justification for this latest Soviet repression of freedom in its empire came to be known as the Brezhnev Doctrine: "Each of our parties is responsible not only to its working class and its people, but also to the international working class, the world Communist movement".
The ostensible justification for the meeting was a fancy photo shoot, but YouTube executives also gave a little pep talk, laying out their vision to make video advertising available to small businesses.
And, although the ostensible justification for a salary cap is competitive balance, baseball has far more competitive balance than the NFL or NBA, leagues with a cap.
