The Public Service Commission is a powerful and ostensibly independent board that oversees utilities and the telecommunications industry, though in practice the governor controls it.

The new group is all Russian, though ostensibly independent of the Kremlin, not the international body that human rights advocates have called for.

Even China's 800 million ostensibly independent farmers grow crops on state-owned land and sell grain to state-owned grain companies.

But there would also be a separate Team B, a group of ostensibly independent outside experts.

That didn't seem likely two months ago when he appointed Frederick Lacey, a former Federal judge, to conduct an ostensibly independent investigation.

Agenzia Stefani had remained privately owned and ostensibly independent, despite many decades of close alignment with Italy's ruling regimes.

Although ostensibly independent, the SEF was answerable to the MAC.

Under German and Italian occupation, this was the capital of an ostensibly independent fascist republic.

The S.E.C. is an ostensibly independent agency.

HealthMed, an ostensibly independent organization, used this material to promote the Rundown to public agencies all over the state.