Where Bill Belichick came in, ostensibly to accept the job as head coach, and wound up declining the honor, in public.
He was there ostensibly to accept an invitation from his Washington counterpart, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, to speak at Georgetown University.
A used car salesman set up a nonprofit ostensibly to accept donated vehicles, sell them and give the proceeds to charity.
Adding insult to injury, the show, through several of its main characters, seemed to agree that boys wearing girls' clothing is just not appropriate for teens, which makes no sense at all in a show ostensibly about accepting people who are different, about outsiders coming together to celebrate their experiences.
The CIA now accepted – ostensibly at least – the BMG's opinion that the struggle against communism and the destabilising of the GDR should not be carried out by force, but only in accordance with the principles of 'political-psychological warfare'.
In March they accepted his resignation, ostensibly for health reasons.
Whether because of budgetary constraints or a lack of political imagination, it has long been accepted that government even New York's ostensibly progressive one can only do so much about these problems.
The United States has stepped up the pace and intensity of its drone attacks in Pakistan, carrying out more than 40 last year in a C.I.A. program that is ostensibly covert but is widely known and generally accepted by the Pakistani government.
Thousands of Jews accepted death, but tens of thousands found safety by ostensibly converting to Christianity.
Undeterred, Sharon pressed ahead, winning government approval in a vote on June 7 after firing two ministers from the hawkish National Union Party and agreeing to accept an ostensibly modified version of his disengagement strategy.
