Sentences with phrase «ostensible controls»

In European jurisdictions, despite ostensible controls, hundreds of patients are involuntarily euthanized every year.

I sat there on the bed for a while, and then I did seek out my brother and apologize to him, and we all sat down quietly for lunch, and nothing else was ever said about this, until now, in this small essay; but the thought occurs to me that in a lot of ways I have been sitting on that bed ever since, pondering the way lies come so easily to our lips and spin so easily out of our ostensible control, and stab the innocent, and dilute respect, and poison love, and tear at what we so much wish to be, which is honest and gracious and reverent.

Not exact matches

De Blasio's ostensible allies among the Senate Democrats are more aligned with the teachers» union view that mayoral control gives parents and local school boards too little power over city schools.

He has a movie director's way of being in control, of guiding you even when your ostensible job is to guide him.

I deducted points after flicking the Azera's ostensible headrest control, finding instead a fixed button, useless and entirely for show.

This finding persisted even when controlling for obesity at age 3 years, several postulated intermediates (including child bottle - feeding and television viewing), and ostensible confounders such as maternal depression, maternal smoking during pregnancy, child birth weight, and other relevant covariates.