Finally, I could see some of the benefit that had been promised so ostentatiously.
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Unfortunately, this raised unrealistic expectations and, since the ruling class was ostentatiously corrupt, resentment.
Most journalists have anecdotes of being sneered at or, worse, ostentatiously ignored by him.
Indeed, he ostentatiously stands for nothing, having taken both sides of several important issues.
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Moreover, the Defense Department is playing the usual Washington game of threatening to make ostentatiously unpopular reductions.
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The only piece of the Nixon Shock still in force was the piece most ostentatiously designated as temporary.
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And even wealthy people who are not feeling the pinch may have become more cautious about spending ostentatiously.
Mr Mallon is ostentatiously green (he drives an electric two-seater car) yet tough.
The officer corps, for instance, has its own privileged networks of farms, factories, schools, shops and ostentatiously smart clubs.
She has been almost ostentatiously independent of the president, but her greater independence is a matter of public attitude only.
In this connection, ships equipped with nuclear-capable sea-launched cruise missiles should be ostentatiously deployed within striking distance of North Korean targets.
In June a missile-carrying Israeli submarine ostentatiously sailed through the Suez Canal.
Now he ostentatiously defies the law on public meetings to invite arrest.
So, more ostentatiously and like many Pakistanis, have the country's modern players.
And after accusing Netanyahu of lacking the courage to embrace the cause of peace, Clinton ostentatiously hosted Livni for an hour-long private meeting.
Rural and inland voters may have felt a sense of cultural and even economic affinity with the less wealthy and ostentatiously western-looking Ennahda candidates.
Another figure who looks unflustered is Boris Berezovsky, perhaps Russia's biggest tycoon and best-known manipulator, who has been ostentatiously close to Mr Chernomyrdin this week.
He has ostentatiously failed to back his party's nominee, Nicolas Sarkozy, a man he heartily dislikes who is in effect running on an anti-Chirac ticket.
He is ostentatiously not attending next week's G8 summit in America.
In the past, Ivanishvili was actually a major supporter of Mikhail Saakashvili, perhaps the most outspoken and ostentatiously anti-Russia politician in the entire Former Soviet Union.
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In the long term, the monarchy's best chance of survival is to become less autocratic, and for some of its members to become less ostentatiously corrupt.
Readers of more ostentatiously literary fare may find relief in an artistic novel that does not lavish 25 pages on a trip to the post office.
On May 13, the Saudi Air Force held an air show at Tabuk for the benefit of King Abdullah and senior princes where the F-15s where ostentatiously displayed.
Never having to worry about losing irrevocably in their wars against Israel, rogue states like Syria, Iraq, and Iran ostentatiously build up non- conventional capabilities to destroy Israel.
The government has ostentatiously solicited public opinion about the change.
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If you are holding onto your notes for dear life, reading from them, flipping the pages ostentatiously, your audience will penalize you in their assessment of your speaking skills.
Representatives of the Northern League ostentatiously absented themselves from all singing of the national anthem and refused to allow the flag to be waved in the regional assembly of Lombardy.
Led by Hisham Qandil, an ostentatiously pious bureaucrat who served as irrigation minister in the outgoing government, its ministers are mostly similarly grey figures, with a smattering of Muslim Brothers.
The Sultan's pair of wheels -- a top-line Mercedes and an olive Bentley -- were parked ostentatiously in front of the Palace's huge doors for the duration of the conference.
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