While each wrestling match is ostensibly a competition of athletics and strategy, the goal of each match from a business standpoint is to excite and entertain the audience.

While most segments of Modern Orthodoxy ostensibly support women's education, the permissibility of Talmud study for women is still not accepted among most of Modern Orthodoxy.

While ostensibly well-intentioned, in effect this move destroyed the traditional system of land management and deprived many Algerians of land.

While father Murry was ostensibly a reasonable provider, he was often abusive.

While ostensibly on " entertainer goodwill " tours at the behest of the British Council, Howard's intelligence-gathering activities had attracted German interest.

While ostensibly a Western, the series routinely includes elements of the science fiction and steampunk genres.

While ostensibly digging expansive underground tunnels all over Tokyo as storage facilities for energy to be received from the Umbrella, a giant Genom space station in construction as a solar power generator, Mason is searching for the Sotai laboratory, a secret Genom facility believed lost in the great earthquake, where he hopes to find Galatea, the Sotai.

While the Act was ostensibly created to foster democracy, the judiciary frequently interpreted it in ways to minimize internal union dissonance and labor disruption, favoring instead the stern hand of management.

While ostensibly engaged in anti-partisan actions in Yugoslavia, this unit became notorious for committing atrocities against the civilian population.

While ostensibly very similar to Breakout – the layout, sound, and general behavior of the game is identical – Super Breakout is a microprocessor based game instead of discrete logic, programmed by Asteroids programmer Ed Logg using an early M6502 chip.

While Senegal ’ s intervention was ostensibly to rescue President Jawara ’ s regime, it had the effect of undermining The Gambia ’ s sovereignty, which was something that had been jealously guarded by Gambians and Jawara in particular.

While ostensibly open to all, the " civil service exams " (" 과거 ") catered to the lifestyle and habits of the yangban, which created a semi-hereditary meritocracy, as yangban families overwhelmingly possessed the minimum education, uninterrupted study time and immense financial resources to pass such exams.

While ostensibly affirming the Finns ' rights in purely local matters, the manifesto asserted the authority of the state in any and all matters which could be considered to " come within the scope of the general legislation of the empire.

While NVC is ostensibly taught as a process of communication designed to improve compassionate connection to others, it has also been interpreted as a spiritual practice, a set of values, a parenting technique, an educational method and a worldview.

While the swing voter is ostensibly the target of most political activity during elections, in countries without compulsory voting the political parties know that the shift from one party to another is dependent only to a limited extent on swing voters.

While poor financial management was ostensibly the reason for the clash, his colleagues had also discovered that Lancaster had been privately beating a number of the boys with whom he worked.

While she ostensibly loves it, she pretended the exact opposite when it was obliquely brought up by Guy in front of her mother.

While ostensibly independent, US forces provided considerable support including medium and heavy artillery, close air support, helicopter gunships, medium and heavy lift helicopters and additional utility helicopters to augment RAAF assets.

While ostensibly targeted toward fleet buyers and business customers where luxury is not a concern, these cars were also available to private customers.

While ostensibly the film focuses on Burton, it also has given fans a rare glimpse of Metallica's less-documented early career.

While Pizarro ostensibly accepted this offer and allowed the gold to pile up, he had no intention of releasing the Inca ; he needed Atahualpa's influence over his generals and the people in order to maintain the peace.

While Cabrel ’ s lyric-writing remained as sensitive and poetic as ever, the tone of this new album was ostensibly harder-hitting than his previous work.

While the AFDL was an ostensibly Zairian rebel movement, Rwanda had played a key role in its formation.

While the Soviet Union ostensibly restored political sovereignty to its satellite and allowed for a Foreign Ministry of the GDR, West Germany's sovereignty was officially curtailed by the Western powers, especially in the field of foreign policy.

While this was under consideration, dauntless as ever Wright set about the building of Taliesin 3.

While emphasizing that technical details were not fully worked out, Pelham said his resolution would seek to set aside the privilege resolution which the House voted through 87-31.

While there is no generally accepted formal definition of " algorithm ," an informal definition could be " a set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operations.

While there are numerous variations, stockless anchors consist of a set of heavy flukes connected by a pivot or ball and socket joint to a shank.

While outside of the spacecraft, Mattingly set up a biological experiment, the Microbial Ecology Evaluation Device ( MEED ).

While Salieri followed the precepts set forth by Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de ' Calzabigi in the preface to Alceste ; Salieri also drew on some musical ideas from the more traditional opera-seria and even opera buffa, creating a new synthesis in the process.

While the winning run was allowed to stand on that occasion, the dispute raised O ' Day's awareness of the rule, and directly set up the Merkle controversy.

While the Browns excelled on defense, Cleveland's winning ways were driven by an offense that employed Brown's version of the T formation, which emphasized speed, timing and execution over set plays.

While every computable number is definable, the converse is not true: the numeric representations of the Halting problem, Chaitin's constant, the truth set of first order arithmetic, and 0 < sup >#</ sup > are examples of numbers that are definable but not computable.

While the dative case is no longer a part of modern English usage, it survives in a few set expressions.

While Just war theory is generally seen to set the background terms of moral debate, individual countries have more specific methods of upholding these ethical principles.

While bishops and their autocephalous synods have the ability to administer guidance in individual cases, their actions do not usually set precedents that affect the entire Church.

While nationalization committees were set up in France and the United Kingdom, Finland avoided nationalizations.

While formal language theory usually concerns itself with formal languages that are described by some syntactical rules, the actual definition of the concept " formal language " is only as above: a ( possibly infinite ) set of finite-length strings, no more nor less.

While continuing to contribute pieces to the Westminster Review, Evans had resolved to become a novelist, and she set out a manifesto for herself in one of her last essays for the Review, " Silly Novels by Lady Novelists " ( 1856 ).

While the vinyl A-side of Napalm Death's debut, 1987's Scum, is set to standard tuning, on side B, the guitars are tuned down 2½ steps.

While walking through the wilderness, Heracles was set upon by the Dryopes.

While pedigree is considered, outside bloodlines are admitted to the registry if the horses meet the set standard for the registry.

While Julia Maesa tried to position herself as the power behind the throne and thus the most powerful woman in the world, Elagabalus would prove to be highly independent, set in his ways, and impossible to control.

While the matter is being discussed, the Saxons board their ships, and, leaving their wives and children behind, set sail back to Germania.

While nationalization committees were set up in France and UK, Finland avoided nationalizations.

While the number of regions is somewhat stable ( the only modification to the original set is the separation of Molise from Abruzzo ), there has been a tendency in later years to create new provinces, such as Crotone, Verbania, Lodi, Biella, Lecco and others.

While this effort has by no means converted all, or even most, Muslims to the Wahhabist interpretation of Islam, it has done much to overwhelm more moderate local interpretations, and has set the Saudi-interpretation of Islam as the " gold standard " of religion in Muslims ' minds.

While Kyrgyzstan was initially determined to stay in the ruble zone, the stringent conditions set forth by the Russian Government prompted Kyrgyzstan to introduce its own currency, the som, in May 1993.

While writing that the series fulfills the norms of mass-market fiction, as mentioned above, magazine writer Michelle Goldberg characterized the books as an attack on Judaism and liberal secularism, and suggested that the near-future " end times " in which the books are set seem to reflect the actual worldview of millions of Americans, including many prominent conservative leaders.