And many also foresee the crisis triggering a fundamental shift in the global balance of power; even infecting the liberal political values that ostensibly lie at the heart of European foreign policy.
Mr. Sarkozy called a rare news conference at his campaign headquarters, ostensibly to lay out his values and his own program for France, in which he criticized his main opponent and jousted edgily with a press corps he thinks is aligned against him.
In the 18-month period under the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, between the election of Mohamed Morsi as president and the ousting of former President Hosni Mubarak, the authorities carried out so-called virginity tests ostensibly to prevent women lying about being raped.
They also attack the current crop of candidates, Democratic and Republican, for ostensibly refusing to lay out plans for change.
On it a nude woman meant to symbolize Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, lay ostensibly asleep.
Gordon gives a vivid account of the two unsavory trials in 1898 that pitted Mabel against Lavinia, both of them lying on the stand, ostensibly over a strip of land but really about the unspoken fact of adultery.
They note, for starters, an experiment showing that even police officers and judges — ostensibly experts at detecting fraud — do no better than chance at detecting lying.
And here we go again: on Thursday a civilian explorer began an occupation of this inhospitable piece of rock lying 300 miles west of mainland Scotland for 60 days – ostensibly in aid of Help for Heroes, though Nick Hancock's expedition surely won't hurt Britain's territorial claim.
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.
Ostensibly Russia wished to lay claims to the area between the Kerch Strait and the Sea of Azov and to redraw existing borders.
