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Bringing guns into the AAPI community will only increase gun violence in our community. That’s exactly what happened in Monterey Park. An ostensibly harmless elderly Asian man’s mind was captured by the idea of guns. He decided they were a good idea and brought them into the community. Look what happened. – Josh Sugarmann	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While Twitter ostensibly has an anti-hate policy that includes antisemitism, it is unclear the degree to which it is being enforced. – Jonathan Greenblatt	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Antisemitism has no place on any social media platform that doesn’t want to further the harassment and exclusion of marginalized communities, while Twitter ostensibly has an anti-hate policy that includes antisemitism, it is unclear the degree to which it is being enforced. – Jonathan Greenblatt	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Blinken is now coming to the region to ostensibly let America's Middle East allies air their grievances, it's unlikely this will change the Iran deal in any tangible way. – Jonathan Schanzer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Democrats used to be the party of the working class, but today they are instead seen as a party defined by ostensibly legalizing property crime, crippling the police, and injecting social justice into math classes. – Sean Westwood	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Journalism's mission is ostensibly to' hold power accountable' - so why, when it comes to covering education issues, are reporters acting as the handmaidens of the powerful ? by failing to tell the full story about the conflicts and disagreements in local communities, journalists are further undermining their own profession. It's little wonder that trust in media is at a historic lowpoint. – Founder Nicole Neily	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Mike Pence life was at risk, there were people who had gallows erected on the lawn of the Capitol ostensibly to hang the vice president. There were people on them threatening the life of the vice president. The vice president could not leave the Capitol of the United States because of the riot. He was sequestered in an area in the Capitol. So his life was in danger. – Bennie Thompson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
His life was at risk, there were people who had gallows erected on the lawn of the Capitol ostensibly to hang the vice president. There were people on them threatening the life of the vice president. The vice president could not leave the Capitol of the United States because of the riot. – The Mississippi Democrat	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Team Pence life was at risk, there were people who had gallows erected on the lawn of the Capitol ostensibly to hang the vice president. There were people on them threatening the life of the vice president. The vice president could not leave the Capitol of the United States because of the riot. He was sequestered in an area in the Capitol. So his life was in danger. – Bennie Thompson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a 'disastrous' and 'humiliating' 'fiasco,' in the words of the mainstream media’s ostensibly objective foreign-policy journalists, yet this political fiasco is not a development that the media covered so much as one that it created. – New York	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is the best thing Gov. Cuomo could have asked for: a total news blackout on his myriad scandals during the network’s ostensibly highest-rated hour. – Tom Elliott	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s a delayed start to a summer that’s been a long time coming. To have late June be ostensibly the start of summer is unusual, but better late than never, a big Fourth of July weekend is coming up, with virtually every genre represented, and a week later we have 'Black Widow,' so we’re on the road to recovery. – Paul Dergarabedian	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Given that her focus is on the [southern] border, it seems like an unusual trip and in New Hampshire, it’s never too early to talk about the next presidential primary, it wouldn’t surprise me that she would be here ostensibly to carry out administrative objectives but in the back of her mind and that of her team, they’ve got to be thinking about what’s next. – Jim Merrill	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Softer jobs growth and tighter social mobility restrictions ostensibly lower the hurdle for a policy response from (U.S.) Congress. – Stephen Innes	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It is so completely normal to be shaken down ... that he didn't even bother to check up before sending the money, for that to happen, especially right now when we are ostensibly in the middle of an anti-corruption campaign, shows that much of it is window dressing. – John Githongo	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I also think Effie Lucille Nicholson Pharr's curious that this resolution -- which ostensibly is about honoring the' daughter' -- really seems to be an excuse to glorify the Confederate cause. – Nina Silber	Found on CNN 5 years ago
As long as the government remains in the business of picking winners and losers, the engine of creative destruction that is necessary for true innovation in this or any other sector is unlikely to take root in Sri Lanka,” Pathmalal cautioned. “History doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes. The local economic policy-making bodies bear a striking resemblance to Venice’s Great Council, which was comprised of the business leaders of the time and informed government policy. It ostensibly fostered economic growth but by its design was a protectionist old boys club. In 1330 Venice was the size of Paris and three times larger London. It is now a city that is literally under water and a museum for tourists.” – Damitha Pathmalal	added by anonymous 5 years ago
They are citing spurious national security concerns to evade congressional oversight while leaking information to The Washington Post ostensibly about classified meetings, congress has a right and a duty to get this information and we will succeed in getting this information, regardless of whatever fantastic stories the DOJ and FBI spin to The Washington Post. – Devin Nunes	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We encourage the end of all funding, both directly and indirectly, for NGOs that participate in the demonization and delegitimization campaigns, when you have organizations that are receiving money ostensibly for peace, human rights, and democracy but they refuse to work with Israeli partners, they refuse to meet with Israelis, and push for boycotts, those are in direct contradiction and seems to be a complete waste of taxpayer money. – Naftali Balanson	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It is surreal, it truly is, but… almost every other, ostensibly negative thing has somehow worked in Trump's favor, so I wouldn't be surprised if this proves to be another one. – Charles Lane	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Kids who have eczema or atopic dermatitis use more lotions and creams and ointments, etc. Ostensibly, their caregivers who purchase these products to use on the kids' skin, give preference to products using these meaningless marketing terms. – Carsten Hamann	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

Bringing guns into the AAPI community will only increase gun violence in our community. That’s exactly what happened in Monterey Park. An ostensibly harmless elderly Asian man’s mind was captured by the idea of guns. He decided they were a good idea and brought them into the community. Look what happened.

– Josh Sugarmann

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While Twitter ostensibly has an anti-hate policy that includes antisemitism, it is unclear the degree to which it is being enforced.

– Jonathan Greenblatt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Antisemitism has no place on any social media platform that doesn’t want to further the harassment and exclusion of marginalized communities, while Twitter ostensibly has an anti-hate policy that includes antisemitism, it is unclear the degree to which it is being enforced.

– Jonathan Greenblatt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Blinken is now coming to the region to ostensibly let America's Middle East allies air their grievances, it's unlikely this will change the Iran deal in any tangible way.

– Jonathan Schanzer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Democrats used to be the party of the working class, but today they are instead seen as a party defined by ostensibly legalizing property crime, crippling the police, and injecting social justice into math classes.

– Sean Westwood

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Journalism's mission is ostensibly to' hold power accountable' - so why, when it comes to covering education issues, are reporters acting as the handmaidens of the powerful ? by failing to tell the full story about the conflicts and disagreements in local communities, journalists are further undermining their own profession. It's little wonder that trust in media is at a historic lowpoint.

– Founder Nicole Neily

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Mike Pence life was at risk, there were people who had gallows erected on the lawn of the Capitol ostensibly to hang the vice president. There were people on them threatening the life of the vice president. The vice president could not leave the Capitol of the United States because of the riot. He was sequestered in an area in the Capitol. So his life was in danger.

– Bennie Thompson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

His life was at risk, there were people who had gallows erected on the lawn of the Capitol ostensibly to hang the vice president. There were people on them threatening the life of the vice president. The vice president could not leave the Capitol of the United States because of the riot.

– The Mississippi Democrat

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Team Pence life was at risk, there were people who had gallows erected on the lawn of the Capitol ostensibly to hang the vice president. There were people on them threatening the life of the vice president. The vice president could not leave the Capitol of the United States because of the riot. He was sequestered in an area in the Capitol. So his life was in danger.

– Bennie Thompson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a 'disastrous' and 'humiliating' 'fiasco,' in the words of the mainstream media’s ostensibly objective foreign-policy journalists, yet this political fiasco is not a development that the media covered so much as one that it created.

– New York

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is the best thing Gov. Cuomo could have asked for: a total news blackout on his myriad scandals during the network’s ostensibly highest-rated hour.

– Tom Elliott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s a delayed start to a summer that’s been a long time coming. To have late June be ostensibly the start of summer is unusual, but better late than never, a big Fourth of July weekend is coming up, with virtually every genre represented, and a week later we have 'Black Widow,' so we’re on the road to recovery.

– Paul Dergarabedian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Given that her focus is on the [southern] border, it seems like an unusual trip and in New Hampshire, it’s never too early to talk about the next presidential primary, it wouldn’t surprise me that she would be here ostensibly to carry out administrative objectives but in the back of her mind and that of her team, they’ve got to be thinking about what’s next.

– Jim Merrill

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Softer jobs growth and tighter social mobility restrictions ostensibly lower the hurdle for a policy response from (U.S.) Congress.

– Stephen Innes

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It is so completely normal to be shaken down ... that he didn't even bother to check up before sending the money, for that to happen, especially right now when we are ostensibly in the middle of an anti-corruption campaign, shows that much of it is window dressing.

– John Githongo

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I also think Effie Lucille Nicholson Pharr's curious that this resolution -- which ostensibly is about honoring the' daughter' -- really seems to be an excuse to glorify the Confederate cause.

– Nina Silber

Found on CNN
5 years ago

As long as the government remains in the business of picking winners and losers, the engine of creative destruction that is necessary for true innovation in this or any other sector is unlikely to take root in Sri Lanka,” Pathmalal cautioned. “History doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes. The local economic policy-making bodies bear a striking resemblance to Venice’s Great Council, which was comprised of the business leaders of the time and informed government policy. It ostensibly fostered economic growth but by its design was a protectionist old boys club. In 1330 Venice was the size of Paris and three times larger London. It is now a city that is literally under water and a museum for tourists.”

– Damitha Pathmalal

added by anonymous
5 years ago

They are citing spurious national security concerns to evade congressional oversight while leaking information to The Washington Post ostensibly about classified meetings, congress has a right and a duty to get this information and we will succeed in getting this information, regardless of whatever fantastic stories the DOJ and FBI spin to The Washington Post.

– Devin Nunes

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We encourage the end of all funding, both directly and indirectly, for NGOs that participate in the demonization and delegitimization campaigns, when you have organizations that are receiving money ostensibly for peace, human rights, and democracy but they refuse to work with Israeli partners, they refuse to meet with Israelis, and push for boycotts, those are in direct contradiction and seems to be a complete waste of taxpayer money.

– Naftali Balanson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It is surreal, it truly is, but… almost every other, ostensibly negative thing has somehow worked in Trump's favor, so I wouldn't be surprised if this proves to be another one.

– Charles Lane

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Kids who have eczema or atopic dermatitis use more lotions and creams and ointments, etc. Ostensibly, their caregivers who purchase these products to use on the kids' skin, give preference to products using these meaningless marketing terms.

– Carsten Hamann

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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