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Using an ostensible investigation into some screwed-up situation to pry open the Clintons' lives and find something only vaguely related with which to try to hurt them politically is literally part of the US history books (which is why I think that it's so stupid for Hillary Clinton to give them anything with which to work).

But, in the sort of nightmare situation that bankers dread, the ostensible hedge backfired, producing losses of its own.

But in four of these situations, the lawyers for the ostensible plaintiffs report that they, or the companies that they lead, dealt with one particular reputation management company; and another case seems to be connected to that company as well.

Tsura tried to project an air of normalcy, even though it was clear to everyone that the situation was far from normal — their ostensible bosses in Donetsk had either gone silent or were working with the separatists, and, above all, everyone in the room remembered the unpleasant armed raid the day before.

In fact, numerous studies noted that the expression of the ostensible endogenous reference genes varies according to distinct physio-pathological situations and can be affected by experimental manipulation [ 2, 20, 24, 26, 27, 41].

Situations slip over the line into genuine cruelty (the ostensible hero gets a kick out of tripping the deaf girl with her own shoelaces), the dialogue hints at unholy alliances (the priest shows off his shiny new watch, a gift of the mining company), and a general sense of futility and meaninglessness prevails.

"Pop," first performed in 2002, is a little like a compilation of dance excerpts from a feel-good musical: there may be an ostensible setting, but there is no real intent to illuminate dramatic situations, explore human emotions or push choreographic boundaries.

The irony of the situation is so blatant as to be painful, given that the ostensible goal of its most vocal proponents from Texas and Florida is to shuffle the standing army of people who used to work on the space shuttle program into SLS as if it means new jobs.

The ostensible reason was that Rio was not developing the site quickly enough.

The concern is that, in such a situation, it could appear that an attorney had loyalties other than to his/her ostensible clients; in addition, even if the clients had issues with this conflict of interest, they might not risk complaining out of fear that the agency would put their adoption at risk.

The ostensible fairy-tale transformation of age into youth brings to mind Craig Lucas's emotionally vibrant use of a similar situation in "Prelude to a Kiss". Mr. Donaghy exploits the premise not just as a metaphor for the fears of loss in one relationship but as a variation on the old plot gambit in which a mysterious stranger shakes up the humdrum lives of the bored citizens of a small town.

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