Sentences with phrase «take ostensible»

What this system would do would be to take the ostensible cost of educating a child, including both state and local allocation, and say each child should get this amount no matter which school they attend.

But the freshness of Perry's perspective is the truth that for everyone who reaches a «stop being an asshole» epiphany, there's a dozen or so who take ostensible life lessons and take it as reason to isolate themselves emotionally.

Not exact matches

Though the most productive moments of dialogue may take place in private, the ostensible framework of dialogue is that of public discourse measured by results, joint statements, and so forth.

It's amazing that anyone could take either Palin or Bachmann seriously, irrespective of their ostensible religious views.

At the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, one sub took ground samples, the ostensible purpose of the mission, while the other deposited a titanium capsule containing a Russian flag.

At the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, one sub took seabed samples, the ostensible purpose of the mission, while the other deposited a titanium capsule containing a Russian flag, symbolically claiming this undersea turf for its homeland.

As in any big city, despite a wealth of ostensible possibilities for meeting people, finding the person right for you can take time.

The transformation of massively risky mountain - climbing, as an activity exclusively for scientists and highly - trained explorers to an adventure - tourism endurance test for the rich and obsessive, gets taken care of here in a series of three title texts at the beginning of the movie, starting with the ostensible conquest of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary's team.

Along with Brie, who after her roles in Community and Mad Men has long deserved a chance to take the wheel as the ostensible lead, GLOW welcomes another Nurse Jackie alum in Betty Gilpin, who lent Starz's American Gods a few memorable moments in season 1.

As an ostensible vehicle for the mother - daughter dream team of Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, Wells's truncated take on August: Osage County necessarily gives them the lion's share of close - ups and wisely lets the film hinge on their escalating pas de deux.

In Rules Don't Apply, Beatty steals every scene — but there isn't much to take away from a movie whose ostensible main plot line of sexually frustrated youth is enacted with such lack of interest from its key players.

Moreover, in practice, the «choice» program has been plagued by lack of accountability (no state testing requirements), fraud (private operators taking off with the state aid check, leaving the kids without a school to go to, and MPS to try to deal with it), refusal to accept handicapped children, continued leeching off public schools for lab courses, and — most significantly — absolutely no educational advantage whatsoever for the «choice» students compared to their public school counterparts, which was the ostensible justification for this whole fiasco in the first place.

He's not inclined to take the shortest, most direct route to his ostensible destination; he likes tangents.

The ostensible issue is that these Big 3 Middle Eastern carriers have been accused of taking government subsidies in violation of the Open Skies Agreement.

An initial take on the ostensible «grow operation» commandeering the Chicago Artists Coalition's project space asks, «What else can an exhibition venue be?»

This reveals an explicit preference for the «art» side of the ostensible dichotomy between art and craft, where art, unlike craft, takes place within and engages historical discourse: for example, Ono's «written instructions» make more sense alongside other conceptual art of the time.

9 In many of the skyscapes of the 20th century, the sky would cease to function as a mere backdrop, but take on a central role becoming an ostensible protagonist of visual and rhetorical effects.

In an ostensible reading room, iPads are set up so that visitors can take a selfie and locate their own face from within the database of images generated by the infrared drone cameras.

My take is that you're just wanting something, anything, to do in our dotage to keep your mind occupied and lacking the mental prowess to do anything noteworthy in computer science you decided to dive into a controversial subject outside your ostensible expertise.

The fact that such an emancipative step would be taken in direct contravention and ostensible frustration of an electoral result would be an egregious manifestation of Neil Walker's claim that the original sin of the European project is a lack of popular legitimacy.

And «If ostensible democratic societies are to persist with judicial review, then a variety of steps can be taken — reduced judicial powers, specialized constitutional courts, responsive appointment procedures, legislative overrides, greater judicial accountability, periodic constituent assembles, etc. — to de-sacralize and defrost the constitutional order.

Particularly in families with international connections, it is not unusual for there to be anxiety that the other parent's ostensible plans to take a child away on holiday are truly plans to abscond abroad permanently without returning.