What purpose he serves is ostensibly unclear since it's hard to believe they're, like, friends.
It has branched out into three other popular social network mediums (a blog, a Facebook page and a Twitter channel), with several of its characters ostensibly participating: Since February 2006, Lindesfarne has had her own blog titled "Virtual Quill".
Kofi Annan, the joint UN-Arab League envoy and sponsor of a six-point peace plan, flew to Damascus to plead with President Bashar Assad to uphold the ceasefire ostensibly in place since April.Despite mounting opprobrium and stiff international sanctions, Syria is trapped in a grisly stalemate.
The outrage engendered by their abuse led to a series of treaties regulating prisoner treatment — treaties the United States has flouted, ostensibly for similar reasons, since 9/11.
Its planes have bombed Iraq on average every three days since January, ostensibly because of Iraqi infractions of the two "no-fly zones" that America and Britain have declared in the north and south of the country.
But an all-too-brief "Damascus spring" did not last long.At the beginning of 2001 more than 1,000 Syrian activists signed a declaration calling for political reform and an end to the state of emergency that has been in effect since 1963, ostensibly because of the conflict with Israel.
It's also when we have to look for a Secret Santa present for someone we don't know at all, but now thinks we're weird for showing a 100% increased interested in them, ostensibly for no reason, since we pulled their name out of a hat.
When paired with the restrictive voter-I.D. laws that Republican-controlled states have been passing since 2005, ostensibly to prevent voter fraud which has repeatedly been shown to be all but nonexistent provisional ballots, intended to protect voters, become yet another instrument of disenfranchisement.
The military junta has since ostensibly stepped down in favor of an appointed civilian government.
People who own an entire plane outright have not been subject to the same tax since, ostensibly, there is no ticket to buy.
Two days later, on Dec. 28, the couple was arrested on charges of unnatural acts and gross indecency, and they have been in jail since, denied bail ostensibly to keep them safe.
