The N.B.A. players have been trying to negotiate a new deal for more than four months, and did not disband their union until the league ostensibly stopped negotiating.
When newspapers report that a woman motorist has broken down on a motorway and has then been raped by a passing driver who ostensibly stopped to help, other women drivers start to worry about their own safety.
Allen sent a stiff letter to BP on Sunday night, ordering the oil giant to continue seismic and sonar monitoring around the well to try to get a better picture of what was happening now that the flow of oil had ostensibly stopped.
Surely they must have witnessed the incident, so close to their checkpoint as to be captured by their CCTV camera?The traffic policemen, after ostensibly stopping Mr Sombath to inspect his driving documents, demonstrated no apparent concern about the strange person who arrived at the scene by motorbike then drove off with the NGO leader's car.
He then takes a photo of the work, as he does in the case of his Watermark Paintings, and uploads it to his Shutterstock account, giving it the white 'X' watermark that ostensibly stops people from bootlegging it.
Following a short stint in jail for lying to his own supporters in order to fundraise from them and cheating on his taxes, Duke remained mostly in the shadows until this past September when he came to New Orleans to ostensibly stop protestors who were threatening to tear down the city's famous statue of Andrew "Trail of Tears" Jackson.
Instead, in 1980, at the invitation of a friend, Dean moved to Boulder, Colorado, another college town, ostensibly to stop drinking.
Even palm trees were destroyed (10m in Basra alone), and the Marshes were drained, ostensibly to stop rebel fighters from seeking refuge there, but undoubtedly also to punish the people seen by the state as being complicit in the uprising by destroying their livelihoods.The need for a patronised inner coterie: Iraq taught us that magnitude of destruction has to be immense.
With the government in near-paralysis, Mobutu seized power in a bloodless coup, ostensibly to stop the political deadlock, on 25 November 1965.
Mexican army troops are now stationed in strategic locations throughout the country, ostensibly to stop the flow of illegal drugs and capture drug kingpins.
The deterrents were implemented ostensibly to stop people drowning on the treacherous sea-journey, but also to assure the electorate that the Australian government was in command of Australian maritime borders.
