Sentence examples for a thin facade from inspiring English sources

Just as the government is using a thin facade of democratisation, with the election of a single police commissioner, to boost rightwing law-and-order politics, so it is using the language of devolution to further neuter local authorities.

Snubbed at the funeral, where she is forced to sit in the back row with Sandy's other gay friends, Janine soon discovers that Evelyn and Frank's acceptance was a thin facade.

Behind the thin facade of a modern state lies a long, seething history of rivalries among 140 tribes and clans, about whom we know little.

Tell me, mister, please, Saddam gone?" Secrets and Lies A rigorous system for controlling and monitoring Western journalists has been in place in Iraq for decades, based on a wafer-thin facade of civility.

It will sit well with The Slap and Christopher Wakling's What I Did (2011) on the shelves of those who enjoy seeing what happens when the cosy certainties of middle-class families are shattered, when the thin facades of decency and manners are wrenched aside, showing the brutal, violent creatures that lurk beneath the surface.

One of the systems is installed on an educational building: it consists of a thin film PV facade appropriate for commercial or office suites.

The implementation of this poisonous contract would be the latest blow to the ever-thinner facade of parity between NHS mental and physical health services, with mental healthcare pushed to breaking point by a lack of beds in some areas on some days.

All you see of the main glass facade is a thin sliver of steel running along its front edge.

Lancet windows were eliminated, the facade was smothered in stucco, a thin aluminum cross was attached and the rose window was replaced by an abstract composition.

A thin layer of sod functions as a horizontal facade stretched over the land for the benefit of airplanes or visiting aliens.

A thin case.