Sentence examples for as a charade for from inspiring English sources

The same committee that functioned largely as a charade for Mrs. Kennedy still operates today, to the White House's detriment.

"It had just been a charade for TV.

However, describing the initiatives as a "charade", Draper says it is time for criminal investigations and an independent Scottish government inquiry into sexual abuse in the church.

The bloodied figure who staggered out an hour later, to search amid the wreckage for survivors, would come to view her life as a charade.

Translation: now we have dealt with Pol Pot, will the world please accept us as part of an alliance against Hun Sen?For his part, Hun Sen was quick to deride the trial as a charade.

Mr. Khodorkovsky's lawyers denounced it as a charade.

Western governments dismiss the road map as a charade.

Mr Farage described the renegotiations, which will take place at a regular meeting of the European Council, as a "charade".

But how could you win over the people of Kandahar Province if they viewed government as a charade propagated by Ahmed Wali Karzai?

Many Egyptians took the news with resignation, seeing the whole exercise as a charade with preordained results.

Tells about his attack on Sir Alec Douglas-Home, referring to an "independent" deterrent as "a charade" saying that it was neither British nor independent being entirely dependent on certain American fission material for completion.