The ostensible winners, but de facto losers, were the Social Democrats, who have spent the days following the vote engaged in recriminations and bitter factional warfare.The Czechs vented their anger about a string of corruption scandals by supporting new parties.
He proposed in the finale only to change his mind and dump the ostensible female "winner" (on air) and end up married to Molly Malaney, the runner-up.
For example, on July 24 , 1983 when the Yankee nemesis George Brett hit one of the Stadium's most notorious home runs -- an ostensible game-winner for the Kansas City Royals -- only to have it nullified by an umpire who ruled that there was pine tar too far up on the barrel of his bat, I was there.
The knives are sickle-shaped, are worn on only one leg, and usually have only one edge sharpened: knife duels usually end in swift death for the loser and, quite often, permanent disability for the ostensible winner..
As some Oscar winners show, ostensible social value is a sort of cinematic insurance policy, a way of eluding the problems of performance, charisma, and technique.
As Afghanistan awaits the threatened announcement of a government by the ostensible losing presidential candidate – who may actually be the winner – the US secretary of state warned that taking power "illegally" would "cost Afghanistan the financial and security support of the United States and the international community".
Let the bombs rain down!! Barack Hussein Obama (D): Inheriting GWB's wars, Nobel Prize winner BHO finds a way to draw down the ostensible size of US involvement in those conflicts (even magnanimously withdrawing from Iraq for a couple of years), but somehow - magically!
"Inside Llewyn Davis" and Brie Larson were two surprise winners at Monday night's Gotham Awards in New York, the ostensible kick-off of awards season.
Everything is being done with ostensible constitutionality, but the trend has been unmistakable ever since a partisan Supreme Court named George W. Bush the winner of the disputed 2000 presidential election and Al Gore, honorably but unhelpfully, gave up the fight.
