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In the opening scene, we discover that Rudi has an undisclosed ailment that will obstensibly kill him in due time.
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The money from the new registration tax is obstensibly for transportation improvements such as the Sellwood bridge, but before they can get any meaningful momentum on that it will have been diverted to some other frill and so on ...
Oregon to spend "leftover" $35 million on Amtrak trains (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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So, it would appear that a city council position these days is obstensibly nothing but a highly paid internship where the greedy crooks hang out until a more lucrative 'consultant' position opens up with one of the many developers (or team owners) that they give away land to and give a free pass on taxes.
Portland neighbors vs. apartment bunkers, Round 938 (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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The warrantless wiretapping declared illegal last week was one of the most controversial expansions of executive power during the Bush Presidency, advocated obstensibly to fight the "war on terror".
Janine R. Wedel: Shadow Elite : Warrantless Wiretap Case & Obama: Abuse of Executive Power? 2010
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The warrantless wiretapping declared illegal last week was one of the most controversial expansions of executive power during the Bush Presidency, advocated obstensibly to fight the "war on terror".
Shadow Elite : Warrantless Wiretap Case & Obama: Abuse of Executive Power? 2010
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The people saying the most stupid counterproductive things obstensibly on behalf of Hillary are her top campaign aides and, indeed, the one doing the most damage on a daily basis has been paid 4.7 million samoleons thus far for his brilliant efforts.
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Hill and Bill liquidated their securities holdings into cash and cash-equivilents when this thing started, obstensibly to avoid conflicts of interest, but it was noted at the time that it also converted their fortune into a gigantic emergency campaign warchest.
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The real problem is that we now have an entire class of purported journalists -- people who are obstensibly actual news reporters -- who share the "politics as court gossip" outlook.
Times Public Editor Hammers Maureen Dowd's Coverage Of Hillary 2009
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Hilly's current plan, at least obstensibly, is to close the pledged delegate gap to around 50 and then argue "fifty, zero, what's the diff?" to the remaining uncommitted supers.
Delegate Scoreboard: Obama Has Erased Hillary's March 4 Gains 2009
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One big difference between the campaigns bears noting, however: The people saying the most stupid counterproductive things obstensibly on behalf of Obama are unpaid supporters.
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