The Labour governments of that period also began to dot the Jordan valley and Golan Heights with Jewish settlements, ostensibly in order to guard the new borders against a still hostile Arab world.

ECONOMIST: Iraq, Israel and the United Nations

The prosperity we enjoy today suggests that the poor are helped most meaningfully by economic progress progress that we are forsaking in order to redistribute wealth ostensibly on their behalf and to fight wars of questionable merit and constitutionality.

FORBES: No Taxation

This transaction would support the sale of U.S. oil field equipment to the Chernogorskoye Joint Venture, ostensibly a private sector project, in order to develop a new oil field in Western Siberia.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | The Brody Confirmation: Will Eximbank Be Allowed To Go The Way Of A Scandal-Ridden CCC?

As I reported in November, the administration ostensibly supports the act but likely opposed its passage in order to preserve leverage for the upcoming debate over comprehensive immigration reform.

FORBES: Steve Case: Crowdfunding Will Augment - Not Replace - Venture Capital

Despite this history, Paul, Weiss attorneys were apparently so confident that the DOJ could be cowed into submission that they provided the court with exhibits-letters, emails and court filings-documenting gross violations of the protective order by other habeas attorneys whose access was not cut off, ostensibly to show that Paul, Weiss was being treated unfairly.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Gitmo's indefensible lawyers