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

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.

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.

The ostensible reason was to see singer Frank Sinatra perform.

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

The ostensible reason for his ouster was that he was considered " politically unreliable " by the Nazi regime.

Though the ostensible reason was that he was considered " politically unreliable " by the Nazi regime there is reason to believe it was so that Focke-Wulf's manufacturing capacity could be used to produce Bf 109 aircraft.

The ostensible reason for invading the Waikato had been decisively to beat the Māori in battle and draw an end to the King Movement.

The Iraq Survey Group ( ISG ) was a fact-finding mission sent by the multinational force in Iraq after the 2003 invasion of Iraq to find the alleged weapons of mass destruction alleged to be possessed by Iraq that had been the main ostensible reason for the invasion.

Although the ostensible reason for the establishment of these two government offices was to administer the new treaty ports, the underlying reasons for their establishment were more complicated: these superintendents were supposed to confine to the ports all diplomatic dealings with foreigners, rather than burdening Peking with them.

The ostensible reason for Murad's removal was ' ineffective governance ', but it was widely believed by press sources that Murad was removed because of critical comments he made in a Newsweek interview regarding the central government's ineffectiveness in remote areas of the province.

This, too, was eventually banned in the NFL rule books with a 2009 rule change that states that " the kicking team cannot have more than five players bunched together ;" the rule change has been considered a gratuitous targeting of Bills special teams coach Bobby April, as the ostensible reason for the ban ( injury risk ) had negligible evidence to support it.

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.

The ostensible reason for the Decree was the Megarians ' supposed trespass on land sacred to Demeter and the killing of the Athenian herald who was sent to their city to reproach them.

She further worries that her ostensible troubled behavior at school and disobedience at home may have been a significant reason for the ending of her parents ' marriage.

The ostensible reason for the action was the quality of food served to inmates.

" Saunas have been recommended for this ostensible reason to people who are told they have high levels of " toxicity " in their body, although the supposed, offending toxins are rarely identified.

The ostensible reason given for the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 was that the unconverted Jews had supported the conversos in their crypto-Jewish practices and thus delayed their assimilation into the Christian community.

The ostensible reason was concern over the drug's safety, though much of the support for the measure has come from pro-life groups that oppose the drug on principle.

The proposed UMNO rally was the ostensible reason for the Inspector General of Police to precipitate the 27 October crackdown.

The ostensible motive for the assassination was a desire to avenge Asahel, and this would be a sufficient justification for the deed according to the moral standard of the time.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

Critics of the SAP argue in favor of a weak anthropic principle ( WAP ) similar to the one defined by Brandon Carter, which states that the universe's ostensible fine tuning is the result of selection bias: i. e., only in a universe capable of eventually supporting life will there be living beings capable of observing any such fine tuning, while a universe less compatible with life will go unbeheld.

However, in instances an individual director may still bind the company by his acts by virtue of his ostensible authority ( see also: the rule in Turquand's Case ).

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.

During the year interdiction of the system had become one of the top American priorities, but operations against it were complicated by the limited forces available at the time and Laos's ostensible neutrality.

The President and Vice President are elected as running mates by the Electoral College, for which each state, as well as the District of Columbia, is allocated a number of seats based on its representation ( or ostensible representation, in the case of D. C .) in both houses of Congress.

Violent mob attacks on Jewish communities, fueled by wildfire hearsay about ostensible massacres of Arabs and attempts to seize the Wall, took place over the following days in Hebron, Safed and Haifa.

They were shown the ostensible educational function of the camp, the high quality of objects made by inmates, and happy Russian prisoners who, reformed to fight Bolshevism, were paraded, singing, in sprightly new uniforms.

On October 27, 1810, the ostensible Republic of West Florida was annexed by proclamation of U. S. President James Madison, who claimed the region as part of the Louisiana Purchase.

When part of a house is converted for the ostensible use of a landlord's family member, the unit may be known as an in-law apartment or granny flat, though these ( sometimes illegally ) created units are often occupied by ordinary renters rather than family members.

In June 2012, the SWR Broadcasting Council voted to approve a measure proposed by SWR Intendant Peter Boudgoust to merge the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra with the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, for ostensible reasons of budgetary limitations for two separate orchestras affiliated with the SWR.

George Orwell ’ s biographer Gordon Bowker relates how English communist David Crook, an ostensible volunteer for the Republican side, was sent to Albacete where he was taught Spanish and also given a crash course in surveillance techniques by Ramón Mercader.

In reality, the ostensible decline of 24. 39 % was created retroactively by a redefinition of the DJIA in 1916.

After being sent down out of the Mountains of Mist, along with other Shienaran soldiers, in search of an elderly women in Ghealdan by Moiraine, he styles himself The Prophet of the Dragon and heads a quasi-anti-establishment social order in the western regions of Randland, with the ostensible purpose of gathering followers in support of the Dragon Reborn.

The ostensible purpose of the show is to test contestants ' knowledge of the events of the previous week by asking questions which are usually oblique references to those events.

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.