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It may look like a farce, but it is also regarded as sound strategy.
At the time, when Trump's candidacy was still regarded as a farce and the prospect of Great Britain voting to exit the European Union was unimaginable, Heimbach framed his indictment of "rampant multiculturalism" in economic terms.
On this day, Syria was holding a vote on a new constitution, an effort at reform by the Assad government that much of the international community regarded as a farce, but that Abu Ali believed was a step in good faith to stop the violence.
After a churchgoing snitch reports her teacher's blasé endorsement of oral sex to her parents, the school forces Ruth to push an abstinence agenda, something she regards as "a farce, an attack on sexuality itself, nothing more than officially sanctioned ignorance".
The trial was regarded internationally as a farce.
But they added that most people regarded the election as a farce and a formality to endorse Mr. Bashir.
If farces are regarded as providing a good time in bad times, it's because, as John Caird argues in his illuminating book Theatre Craft, the genre will inevitably be funny if done properly: "A good farce obliges the audience to believe both in the characters and the events to the point where laughter is their only recourse".
The FARC called the move a "farce".
"That's a farce".
Positive rights are a farce!
It's really a farce.
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