If Bustani had succeeded, this would have placed a formidable obstacle in the path of the Bush administration's war plans, by removing their ostensible motive.

The pessimism of the young is defiant, anxious to confess or even exaggerate its ostensible gloom, and so exuberant as to reveal the fact that it regards its ability to face up to the awful truth as more than enough to compensate for the awfulness of that truth.

Her ostensible indifference to and rebellion against suggestions and criticisms by anyone except peer friends during adolescence are the manifestations, in her adolescence, of her having been indoctrinated in childhood to feel shame, if not guilt, for failing to behave in a manner acceptable to, and judged by, the performance of her nursery- and elementary-school peer friends.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

Wheelock's ostensible inspiration for such an establishment resulted from his relationship with Mohegan Indian Samson Occom.

A long-standing territorial dispute was the ostensible reason for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

He is a founding member of The Sons of Lee Marvin, a humorous " semi-secret society " of artists resembling the iconic actor, which issues communiqués and meets on occasion for the ostensible purpose of watching Marvin's films.

Ribbentrop regarded the Munich Agreement as a diplomatic defeat for Germany, as it deprived Germany of the opportunity to wage the war to destroy Czechoslovakia that Ribbentrop wanted to see ; the Sudetenland issue, which was the ostensible subject of the German-Czechoslovak dispute, had been just a pretext for German aggression.

Soviet sources have claimed that soon after the pact was signed, both the UK and US showed understanding that the buffer zone was necessary to keep Hitler from advancing for some time, accepting the ostensible strategic reasoning ; however, soon after World War II ended, those countries changed their view.

The ostensible reason for much of the destruction of historic buildings has been for the construction of hotels, apartments, parking lots and other infrastructure facilities for Hajj pilgrims.

During the course of their journeys, the three encounter enemies and obstacles both sacred and profane, including: the Saint of Killers, an invincible, quick-drawing, perfect-aiming, come-lately Angel of Death answering only to " He who sits on the throne "; a disfigured suicide attempt survivor turned rock-star named Arseface ; a serial-killer called the ' Reaver-Cleaver '; The Grail, a secret organization controlling the governments of the world and protecting the bloodline of Jesus ; Herr Starr, ostensible Allfather of the Grail, a megalomaniac with a penchant for prostitutes, who wishes to use Custer for his own ends ; several fallen angels ; and Jesse's own redneck ' family ' — particularly his nasty Cajun grandmother, her mighty bodyguard Jody, and the ' animal-loving ' T. C.

A tallage of £ 60, 000, known as the " Saladin tallage ", was levied at Guildford in 1189, the ostensible object being preparation for the Third Crusade.

Among Keynes's Bloomsbury friends, Lopokova was, at least initially, subjected to criticism for her manners, mode of conversation and supposedly humble social origins – the latter of the ostensible causes being particularly noted in the letters of Vanessa and Clive Bell, and Virginia Woolf.

Moore's take on the Jack the Ripper murders is not a " whodunit ": he spells out his ( fictional ) culprit and the ostensible reasons for his actions very early on.

The ostensible reason for the cut-off was that it indicated the point at which most of the human race had been purposefully annihilated during a catastrophic first contact with aliens visiting Earth.

Davis met with Beauregard in Augusta, Georgia, on October 2 and offered him command of the newly created Department of the West, responsible for the five Southern states from Georgia to the Mississippi River, with the armies of Hood and Richard Taylor under his ostensible command.

Many people in the area use the lakes for activities such as swimming and many different boating activities and a band called " Almost Perfect " which, by all accounts, has existed largely unnoticed by the music community, owing that relative anonymity to a lack of ostensible musicianship.

However, other historians such as Robert Utley and Jerome Greene also use Lakota oral testimony as the basis for their conclusions that the Lakota coalition, of which Sitting Bull was the ostensible head, was the primary target of the federal government's pacification campaign.

President Carnot's ostensible part during this agitation was confined to augmenting his popularity by well-timed appearances on public occasions, which gained credit for the presidency and the republic.

The ostensible reason for this indaba was to present the findings of the long-awaited Boundary Commission to the Zulu people.

The story concerns a reporter's dangerous investigation into an obscure organization, the Parallax Corporation, whose primary, but not ostensible, enterprise is political assassination.

A " group was set up in Langley, Virginia, with the express purpose of running a " two track " policy for Chile: one the ostensible diplomatic one and the other-unknown to the State Department or the US ambassador to Chile, Edward Korry-a strategy of destabilisation, kidnap and assassination, designed to provoke a military coup.

One ostensible example of these reputed powers was when Efim Rasputin, Grigori's father, had one of his horses stolen and it was claimed that Rasputin was able to identify the man who had committed the theft.

Although Powell ’ s ostensible research aim was to study crocodiles, he also planned to study Mokèlé-mbèmbé.

Being sent on a mission to Rome in 1445, with the ostensible object of inducing Pope Eugene to convoke a new council, he was absolved from ecclesiastical censures and returned to Germany under an engagement to assist the Pope.

His long progress to the place of assembly resembled a triumphal procession, and the Council of Mantua of 1459, a complete failure as regards its ostensible object of mounting a crusade, at least showed that the impotence of Christendom was not owing to the Pope.

A quote from Roosevelt's 1912 Progressive Party platform was cited as an epigram by Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, in his 2006 manifesto: " Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

In December 1518, Eck published the twelve theses which he was prepared to uphold against Karlstadt, but since they were aimed at Luther rather than at the ostensible opponent, Luther addressed an open letter to Karlstadt, in which he declared himself ready to meet Eck in debate.

Hooke's ostensible purpose was to tell Newton that Hooke had been appointed to manage the Royal Society's correspondence.

The ostensible purpose of the rescript was to appease the American occupiers with a renunciation of imperial divinity, but the emperor himself saw it as a statement of the existence of democracy in Meiji era.

The ostensible reason was to see singer Frank Sinatra perform.

In addition to the ostensible return of imperial fiefs to the empire, it can not be ruled out that Adolf was anxious to build a dynastic power base ( albeit a small one ).

One of the ostensible impulses behind the founding of the center was a desire to change overseas perceptions of Japan that viewed the country as a faceless economic power.

In Eastern Europe, there is frequently a desire to avoid the inflammation of ethnic tensions and the ostensible reversal of Potsdam conference policies ; see Federation of Expellees.

This would have been the first confirmed extrasolar planet and its ostensible discovery was based on the same radial velocity technique later used successfully by others.

Apparent authority ( also called " ostensible authority ") exists where the principal's words or conduct would lead a reasonable person in the third party's position to believe that the agent was authorized to act, even if the principal and the purported agent had never discussed such a relationship.

Although the ostensible purpose of the trip was to visit her mother, Bertha Benz had other motives: to prove her husband — who had failed to consider marketing his invention adequately — that the automobile they both heavily invested in would become a financial success once it was shown to be useful to the general public ; and to give her husband the confidence that his constructions had a future.

On 5 June Parker issued an order that merchant ships be allowed to pass the blockade, and only Royal Navy victualling ( i. e., supply ) ships be detained ; the ostensible reason provided in the order was that "... the release of the merchant vessels would create a favourable impression on shore.

He claims that the valleys used as the ostensible settings for the events of the story would never have allowed for as great a population as the saga assumes.

The ostensible justification for firing shots is that tracer rounds are very bright and would immediately gain the attention of a crew whose radio is non-functioning, or who might not have noticed radio transmissions.

The ostensible purpose of this is primarily to reduce sudden high speed yaw induced blow overs that would cause the cars to flip due to aerodynamic lift when subject to extreme yaw angles during cornering or in a spin.

While the ostensible aim was to offer something for every possible fan, in the end, the album received a much poorer reception than Jugulator by most fans and would result in the eventual reunion of the classic lineup.

Its ostensible purpose was to develop multilateral rules that would ensure international investment was governed in a more systematic and uniform way between states.

When the trio subsequently toured as Spinal Tap during 2001, they would occasionally perform in the guise of the Folksmen as an ostensible " opening act "; not all of the audiences appreciated ( or even understood ) this in-joke, with one appearance in New York City reportedly being booed by a restless audience.

Lawther came to local prominence in Toronto when in the 1980s he created the character of Chuck The Security Guard for CFMT-TV's The All-Night Show, on the ostensible premise that as the station's night security he would be allowed to use the broadcast facilities to play classic television shows, short films and music videos between sign-off and 6 a. m.