Sentence examples for efforts a charade from inspiring English sources

Outside the committee room, the couple's lawyer, Stephen A. Best, called the lawmakers' efforts a "charade," and said the Salahis had committed no crime.

In his emails, he expressed frustration about the inability of anti-doping officials to clean up the sport, calling their efforts "a charade".

Labor board officials dismissed the company's efforts to steer its employees into Local 17-18 as a charade.

#riofail — Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) June 21 , 2012That none of us wanted to lend our credibility to the effort by continuing to participate in what's largely become a charade.

Without an investigation, the reform effort will be at best, hit or miss, and at worst, a charade.

We have all been making efforts to ensure that there is more transparency, and now it appears that this whole thing is becoming a charade," he added.

They are a charade.

They're a charade.

It's all a charade.

Still, a charade had to play out.

"It is a charade, of course.