Sentences with phrase «with ostensible»

For instance, if you purchase a health plan of Rs. 5 lakh at an age of 25 years then you might just pay a premium of Rs. 5000 but the same policy would cost you much more at an age of 35, even with no ostensible change in your health indicators.

Plagiarism isn't automatically found — a committee deals with each ostensible instance on a case by case basis.

It is thus misleading for you and those who share your cultural framework to contrast your preference for «market forces» with the ostensible resistance you see to these in those who favour mitigation.

He has made his name in the past few years creating, with ostensible effortlessness, messy yet sophisticated paintings that feature bug - eyed figures in craggy landscapes.

But the book's story begins with the ostensible failure of public education and its rapidly rising costs, mediocre student achievement results, poor high - school graduation rates, and limp international rankings.

Having out - witted the powers that be in the first Hunger Games — a TV spectacle in which children compete to the death for the entertainment of the privileged few — and survived with her ostensible romantic partner Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), deepens her rebellion here.

However, while Harris makes for an appropriately smart and menacing adversary, the loss of Rachel McAdams (only briefly seen this time) as Holmes's romantic foil proves to be a more sizeable step backward; while she was not the most comfortable fit in the first film, her chemistry with Downey was promising — which becomes all too painfully clear when neither Downey nor Jude Law (as trusty sidekick Dr. Watson) show much rapport at all with her ostensible replacement, Noomi Rapace as a gypsy who (platonically) joins the duo's mission.

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.

Israel has erected a wall inside the West Bank, deviating substantially from the 1949 armistice lines (the internationally recognized borders of the state of Israel) with the ostensible aim of stopping Palestinian terrorist attacks.

The impact of these facts upon our minds, with the resultant meaning they bear for us, depends upon our response to more fundamental realities which are intermingled with the ostensible factors (of politics, economics and the rest) but are never fully covered by them.

Not exact matches

On March 3, the system will have a dozen games on shelves, though with Breath of the Wild, 1 -2-Switch and Snipperclips, the Switch's launch lineup looks in some ways stronger than its ostensible rivals.

Even with Project Scorpio's ostensible performance perks, it's hard to imagine Microsoft's Xbox One selling so well, month over month, that it manages to outpace Sony by sufficiently consistent margins to reverse the broad trajectories of this console generation.

With the airwaves full of ostensible experts yelling at one another in cynical displays of political theatre, people were eager for a wonky stats guy who promised to cut through the bullshit.

I recently sat down with Gladwell in Inc.'s headquarters to discuss his counterintuitive new book and how its lessons apply to the ostensible underdogs of the business world: entrepreneurs.

That foul - up proved costly: The Securities and Exchange Commission slapped Nasdaq with a $ 10 million fine, and the exchange said it would reimburse firms up to $ 62 million for their ostensible losses.

Disillusionment with Wall Street fund manager performance and an increasing focus on low fees remain the ostensible drivers.

The prerequisite of entrusting an surrogate with a private cryptocurrency pivotal creates many of the confidence risks that cryptocurrencies were ostensible to eliminate.

As ostensible Republicans in Michigan the Romney family worked closely with the Democrat - UAW - AFLCIO troika.

If a man becomes a philanthropist with the deliberate intention of expecting to see his name in the New Year honors, we rightly feel that there is something hollow about his ostensible concern for others.

The issue of freedom is particularly acute with respect to liberal education, the ostensible function of which is to fulfill the ideal of liberty.

For one thing, there is no real or ostensible connection between Whitehead's notion of God or religion and the symbols of the Christian tradition, although of course this does not mean that they are necessarily incompatible with one another.22 Whitehead does value religion, however, and does have a place for God.

Attitudes are closely related with real beliefs, and these are in turn affected by, although not identical with, ostensible beliefs.

He even met with people who hold a potentially different worldview from his in an ostensible effort to understand different perspectives around the country.

When the Sun Devils announced they were replacing Graham with Edwards, their ostensible plan was to keep all or most of Graham's assistants in place and put Edwards on top of a «New Leadership Model.»

At the same time, while there tends to be little ostensible evidence in the UK of the blatant buying off of politicians and officials, the murky networks that connect political parties with private funders, and see the frequent movement of officials across the private and public sector, raise serious questions about the integrity of the public service ethos at the highest levels of power (as even Conservative commentators recognise — e.g. Ferdinand Mount, The New Few).

The measure on the Senate calendar today would allow candiates to select a panel of up to three people who would appoint a treasurer for their campaign committee in order to ensure the remaining money is used with the candidate's ostensible best wishes in mind.

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.

The ostensible link might augment our understanding of what causes the complex constellation of symptoms associated with PTSD.

The result is that today we have created a dangerous pattern of milk production with these modern methods, which require pasteurization for ostensible protection from pathogens.

Health & fitness is not an elusive task reserved for the ostensible elite or the people with white knuckled spartan resolve who resign being miserable.

Collaborating with author Lawrence Wright, on whose 2013 book this documentary is based, director Alex Gibney follows a chronology of the church, beginning with Hubbard's origins as sci - fi pulp writer and world traveler, his development of Dianetics in the 1950s, and how his ostensible breakthrough in modern mental health slowly, and by design, metastasized into the legally protected, tax - exempt religion that exists today.

A child with a machine gun vehemently exacts revenge on two ostensible reporters with white skin who have come to view the carnage.

The question is, can that skill with everyday people be ported over to someone like Erik Prince, the ostensible «Blackwater» lead character?

The ostensible reason for her journey is to discover who her real father is - she assumes he is residing at the villa - and she also hopes to rekindle a relationship with a young man she met four years earlier.

Patrick and Angie are the ostensible naïfs thrown to Beantown's wolves, drifting from dive to backroom to warehouse to crackhouse, armed with some tenuous sense of right in a morally grey world.

Theoretically, it's possible that Vice, an ostensible action vehicle driven by Thomas Jane — with Bruce Willis sitting quietly in...

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.

The real laugh is that the film's ostensible moral is to act your age while virtually every joke is stolen from a genre intended for stars and audiences ten - plus years younger than anyone involved, meaning all the sexual insecurity and juvenilia is infected with considerably more than the usual touch of the pathetic.

That pretty much sidelines Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), the ostensible hero of the tale, while redirecting the focus to characters who never appeared in the original novel or in Tolkien's universe at all, namely the above - mentioned Orcs with a grudge against Thorin (Richard Armitage), the Dwarf who would be king.

Hollywood hasn't really known what to do with the actress since her ostensible breakout role in Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor (2001).

The ostensible reason for the bust - up is her fling with a dull office worker (Kevin Bacon), but mainly she just seems tired, confused, upset — in other words, according to the rules of this remarriage genre, she is likely to come back to Cal once she figures things out.

Shyamalan understands too well his own formula and with Signs, his third overtly supernatural film after The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, he displays an unbecoming self - consciousness that renders his ostensible subject allegorical subtext, with his own favourite issues (the father / son dynamic, the comic book spirituality) the only reason for the film's existence.

Really only Tsui Hark has managed to make a great movie out of an origin story (with A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon), and that was by turning the ostensible hero into a side character for much of the film, allowing it to be driven by his mentor.

Where John Wayne's Ethan Edwards went looking for a young girl abducted in a Comanche raid, Bidegain's ostensible hero is a father searching for a daughter who has left her family of her own volition to be with her Muslim boyfriend.

But this ostensible satire on American cops, crime movies, American values or lack thereof, intellectualism and anti-intellectualism, racism, and so on, is so hackneyed, tired, labored and overstuffed with contempt not only for all of its targets but also its own self that one gets the feeling that the talented Mr. McDonagh has gone mad with rage.

And it's still the most energetic sex filmmaking, qua filmmaking, around: 2,800 setups, Meyer told an SFS preview audience, and they do go blazing past, so frenetically, and some of them downright dynamically, that anybody with camera - and cutting - sense is going to have a hard — make that a difficult — time keeping his mind on the ostensible subject.

Matthew Fox is the ostensible star as Jack, the doctor who steps up as group leader in the first episode, but it quickly settles in as a dense ensemble show with characters who have vivid backstories: tough, raven - haired beauty Kate, whose fair looks hide a rough outlaw past (Evangeline Lilly), con man Sawyer (Josh Holloway) who hides his bitterness under a country - boy voice and a suspicious smile, Iraqi communications specialist and Gulf war veteran (he fought on the other side) Sayid (Naveen Andrews), steely survivalist John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), who has a mystic, one might say miraculous, connection to the island, pregnant single mother - to - be Claire (Emilie de Ravin) running from a fortune - teller's prophecy, washed - up rock star and heroine addict Charlie (Dominic Monaghan), Korean couple Jin and Sun Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim and Yoon - jin Kim) with mob connections and no English skills (or do they?)

Boseman and especially Letitia Wright (as his technical genius of a sister) are marvelous, but Jordan, who has appeared in all of Coogler's films to date, is utterly magnetic, infusing his ostensible villain with genuine pain and swagger that makes his already sympathetic aims (if not sympathetic methods) become even more attractive.

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.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes both earned visual effects artists Daniel Barrett, Joe Letteri, and Dan Lemmon nominations in this category, and all three (along with Joel Whist) are nominated here for War for the Planet of the Apes, the ostensible final film in the rebooted Planet of the Apes series.