Sentence examples for considered a sham from inspiring English sources
His trial was widely considered a sham.
Maduro was elected to a new six-year term in May, but the vote was boycotted by the opposition — turnout was the lowest of any presidential election since the 1940s — and was widely considered a sham.
Buck Chapoton, a tax lawyer at Vinson & Elkins in Washington and a former tax policy chief for President Ronald Reagan, said he had been offered hundreds of thousands of dollars to write a letter characterizing as legitimate a tax-avoidance plan he considered a sham.
While the country is nominally a multiparty democracy, elections have generally been considered a sham.
But the draft bill produced by the government was considered a sham by many who favoured recall.
It says that if a transaction superficially follows all rules but is devoid of economic substance and produces tax savings Congress didn't intend, it can be considered a sham and disallowed.
Many wonder if the judges will want to go down in history as affirming an election that almost everyone considers a sham.
Turkey's former chief of staff recently walked out of a courtroom in protest of what he considers a sham trial against him.
A thorough literature search did not find any evidence to suggest that rigid sports tape applied along the line of pull of the quadriceps femoris and triceps surae muscles would affect motor performance during repeated submaximal single-leg hopping and was considered an appropriate sham intervention as it was not applied over a joint to limit joint motion.
Republicans were hammering Mr. Clinton for not backing a missile shield, so the president, as he has done on so many issues, adopted a middle course between those convinced that a missile shield is the future of American security policy and those who consider it a sham.
Studies that aim only to determine the specific effect of acupuncture are not part of CER, because sham acupuncture is not considered an "active" comparison group or as a real treatment option.
