"The club is very dear to the family and it is a travesty for a club not far from the second tier of English football not to have a youth system".
"This was one of the longest trials in US history, and it has been a travesty of injustice from the moment of the arrest right up to the trial, sentencing, and subsequently the treatment, with two of the wives unable to visit their husbands," he said. .
Like all reality shows, "Buckwild" has its critics, and chief among them is West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who -- despite having no problem playing to stereotypes when it's suited him -- decried the show in a letter to MTV's president Stephen Friedman as a "travesty" that profits from its depictions "of the poor decisions of our youth".
To me, that is a travesty, whether it was from a parent, from an educator and most certainly from a follower of Christ.
He was also chairman of the 2005 Man Booker judging panel that caused an uproar by giving the award to John Banville's novel "The Sea" — "an icy and overcontrolled exercise in coterie aestheticism," according to a writer in The Independent, as well as "a travesty of a result from a travesty of a judging process".
This week Belafonte spoke out from Nairobi (where he was visiting as UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador) to defend Michael Jackson Michael Jackson from a "travesty of journalism".
"I am thrilled that this jury kept this tragedy from become a travesty".
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It is a travesty, then, that these recent deaths from contaminated heart medication have not yet prompted any reform of the health sector.
She called the hands-off order from the United Nations "a travesty," saying, "This is about judges helping judges, this is not about politics".
