Sentence examples for a mockery on from inspiring English sources

"If we have a law which is not enforced, then it's a mockery on the part of the religious authorities," said Mohammad Azmi Abdul Hamid, Himpun's chairman.

"The court decision to publish the apology in the form we've been obliged to amounts to a mockery on the part of our judiciary," the magazine's editor-in-chief Miloš Luknár said.

He was humiliated when a popular TV satire troupe called the Chaser mounted a fake motorcade, flying a Canadian flag and featuring a rented limo with an actor dressed as Osama bin Laden in the back seat, and got within ten yards of Bush's hotel, making a mockery of an elaborate, war-on-terror-inspired security lockdown that had encased downtown Sydney in a "ring of steel".

It was an outrageous usurpation of executive authority and a mockery of the values on which this nation was founded.

Classical music tends to lionize the great composer cut down in youth, but Elliott Carter made a mockery of that trope on Thursday.

It plays with fictionality, invoking the "dear readers" that we are, and making a mockery of sequential time on the page.

His words belie his education and make a mockery of the committee on which he sits.

It risks making a mockery of the global prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.

The Russians have made a mockery of a joint declaration on energy issued at the G8 summit they chaired in St Petersburg last July.

The argument makes a mockery of the United Nations Conference on the Human'tnvironment, scheduled for Stockholm In June.

The idea of batsmen being driven on makes a mockery of the game, and there's also the chance of damage to the square and outfield.