Sentence examples for a mockery of second from inspiring English sources

The Mets continued to make a mockery of second chances yesterday.

Smith is shooting a ghastly 28.1 percent, making a mockery of his Sixth Man of the Year award.

Hunter wrote in his ruling that appointing private attorneys was not a solution to the lack of public defenders, saying that their appointment "without adequate resources to represent their clients makes a mockery" of the sixth amendment.

But that old legal fiction — which, in the words of Wayne LaFave, a law professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, "makes a mockery of the Fourth Amendment" — grows more indefensible every day, and becomes further at odds with personal and technological reality.

In an op-ed article last month in The Washington Post and other newspapers, Mr. Bates said Morality in Media's religious cast, the sensitivity of the constitutional issue of free speech and the outsourcing together made "a mockery of the First Amendment, chilling freedom of expression".

After Gervinho had been brilliantly denied an early shot on goal by Mats Hummels' outstretched boot, the German champions made a mockery of their fourth-seeding in this season's group-stage draw.

Shame on the U.S. Supreme Court for making a mockery of the First Amendment.

This seems a mockery of the first class to graduate into the Great Recession.

As a matter of fact, the appointment of private attorneys without adequate resources to represent their clients makes a mockery of the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel".

It takes two sides to make a real contest and Manchester City were so unimpressive in this early title showdown it made a mockery of the games's first v second billing.

He made good decisions and good throws, making a mockery of San Diego's ninth-ranked defense.