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And leaders with the ostensible authority to drive systemic change have been “managed out” before being given the chance to do much of anything.

Bush declined to throw his support behind the ostensible leader of the Republican Party during the presidential election, offering no endorsement for any candidate.

But the movie is more effective as a grim, involving cop thriller than it is as an ostensible statement on the Order’s reverberations in the present.

Straddling the two is “Juror #2’s” ostensible hero, Justin Kemp, who knows that the murder defendant didn’t kill his girlfriend.

Despite the obvious love and respect the two have for each other, there was no brother-to-brother backing off, no ostensible sibling sympathy in Baltimore’s 30-23 victory.