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In its complaint, Tweedy, Browne identified payments made in recent years to Lord Black, his associates and their companies that were ostensibly tied to noncompete agreements signed by the company but which Tweedy contended were potentially inappropriate.

The crisis in Hollinger International began last May, when an outside investor complained to the board that Lord Black and his senior associates had received millions of dollars in questionable payments, ostensibly tied to noncompetition agreements.

Ostensibly tied to criminal investigations surrounding the May Day 2012 demonstrations, the series of raids and grand jury subpoenas would frame an effort by the FBI over the ensuing months to find out more about the anarchist community.

Diesel even made a 20-minute short film detailing Dom and Letty's wedding, ostensibly to tie up plot lines and connect the timelines.

This, ostensibly, helps to tie together spy data.

Ostensibly, the possibility to influence other companies tied to the focal firm via undirected interlocks seems to be small (Haunschild and Beckman 1998).

And the result of all that effort is that SOPA is substantially back on the table, perhaps worse than ever, tied to a fail-proof bill ostensibly about combating child pornography.

With the iPhone and Android taking huge bites out of them and reinventing UI on a yearly release schedule, Nokia seemed to have tied itself to the anchor of legacy systems, while still ostensibly researching and designing a true next-generation OS.

Mental health initiatives, health and dental plans, combatting against tuition hikes: all of those very good things are intimately tied to the power of the students' union and could be ostensibly jeopardized by a profit-oriented hostile takeover.

This fits with trends that we've seen among some owners already, who never buy but lease cars; and many more who already have tied themselves into monthly payments for the vehicles that they do drive, ostensibly with a view to owning these eventually outdated vehicles outright.

Among the concerns it lists is how Google's launch of accelerated mobile pages (AMP) — ostensibly for supporting faster load speeds of mobile web pages — could "lead to advertisers being tied to Google" on account of AMP-enabled delivery of sites being via Google's servers.