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IN OCTOBER 2007 Gordon Brown decided against a snap election, ostensibly in order to lay his vision for Britain before the electorate in a more leisurely manner.

Japan's three "megabanks" hold some ¥12 trillion $123 billionn) in other companies' shares (ostensibly in order to cement business relationships, but really to thwart hostile takeovers).

The Labour governments of that period also began to dot the Jordan valley and Golan Heights with Jewish settlements, ostensibly in order to guard the new borders against a still hostile Arab world.

In this concise, elegant novel, a twentysomething filmmaker's assistant travels to an Indian temple town, ostensibly in order to scout locations but actually with the intention of confronting her traumatic past.

A supreme court decision last year that struck down a crucial component of the Voting Rights Act emboldened several Republican-dominated stotes to introduce or accelerate plans to restrict voting, ostensibly in order to stamp out voter fraud.

One of a handful of autonomous regions in Italy, it maintains almost full control of the tax revenues it generates, ostensibly in order to fund its own health care and education systems.

The family friend said that Zubeidat became increasingly worried about Tamerlan, because he had been expected to return earlier than he did from a six-month trip to Dagestan that he had ostensibly undertaken in order to visit relatives.

The Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin (2000) is an intricately constructed narrative centring on the memoir of an elderly Canadian woman ostensibly writing in order to dispel confusion about both her sister's suicide and her own role in the posthumous publication of a novel supposedly written by her sister.

Ostensibly set up in order to respond to Republican attacks, the meetings quickly became a story in themselves, another titillating drama that also offered proof of the campaign's strategic superiority.

Labour politicians will seize on any cuts that ostensibly harm the poor in order to divide the coalition partners.

The region has a sizable Shiite minority, and last year Shiites were made to pay an Islamic tax, ostensibly to ensure their security, in order to be allowed to remain in Orakzai.