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Cairo streets are lined with campaign banners and posters extolling el-Sissi, who has done little in the way of traditional campaigning, and has not publicly mentioned his ostensive challenger, Moussa Mustafa Moussa.
El-Sissi has done little in the way of traditional campaigning, and has not publicly mentioned his ostensive challenger, Moussa Mustafa Moussa.
Dreher’s operative definition of media bias is identical to Jim Roberts’s ostensive one.
Evidently, it isn’t easy ending the lives of others, even those who pose an ostensive threat to national security, survive a five-car collision or mildly resemble Drake.
Not only does Putin relish flying in the face of American diplomacy, but he also doesn't fear doing so militarily: He recently sent his air force into Syrian skies with little concern for the possibility that it could produce live fire between U.S. and Russian fighters, bombed positions of ostensive U.S. allies and dramatically increased Russian submarine patrols off Alaska.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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