The pair join forces to rob the chintzy establishment in which they both work: him hoping to finance a sham marriage for reasons simultaneously enigmatic and entirely unintriguing, her keen to purchase an antique wedding ring once owned by Harry Houdini's wife.
I wouldn't have minded so much if any of these men had written poetry to match their levels of dastardliness; but one night they'd tell you their marriage was a sham for complicated reasons to do with the electoral register, and the next morning they'd be back in their marital homes, ready to pen another ode to the murmurations of starlings in Suffolk.
Justice Scalia called the Law School's "holistic" admissions process "a sham," and not without reason (Grutter, at 375 [Scalia, dissenting]).
Put most forcefully, public reason is a sham: it purports to be an impartial or neutral method of moral or political justification, but it is, in fact, a form of sectarian secularism or modern liberalism masquerading as something more inclusive.
And when I am opened the almost-empty but not at-all classroom because my Rock and Wings were ankles-folded, paper-grading at the table -- when I uttered a hollow "hello" to Ms. Hamilton and told her I had just cried I did not cry again -- and she told me it was okay that that being "like a girl" was not a shame or a sham or scam, but a reason to keep climbing.
As in the previous suit, Charney says the investigation into his conduct was a "sham" designed to gin up fraudulent reasons to fire him.
With the health story exposed as a sham, Kỳ gave a series of reasons for dismissing Thi, accusing him of being too left-wing, ruling I Corps like a warlord, having a mistress who was suspected of being a communist, and being too conspiratorial.
Moreover, the defendants have not given any reason why Nevada would countenance a sham, regardless of its form.
This is just another reason why All-Star votisg is a sham.
The main opposition candidate Raila Odinga has cited one such ruling as a reason for boycotting what he calls a "sham election".
Hynes, with considerable reason, had declared that judicial elections in Brooklyn were a sham, complete with rigged outcomes orchestrated by the Brooklyn political machine.
