Sentence examples for fake meetings from inspiring English sources

Instead, those barren lawmakers have chosen to stage fake meetings with fake citizens, all to keep the government from performing any meaningful duties.

"So," says the first, "and how is... everything coming along?" They are cheering, these fake meetings, the folders offered like excuses, the crumbs of diligence that fall and are shaken away.

(Poor Richard Macer only found out after filming stopped that Vogue's British editor Alex Shulman had stitched him up like a kipper, making him sit through endless fake meetings as cover for what she was actually doing, namely secretly negotiating a world exclusive with the Duchess of Cambridge).

While a layoff strategy involving fake meetings and poorly timed emails can be interpreted as insensitive or clumsy or both, the company did offer a reference letter and freelance work.

"There was never a time when that was a fake meeting and the real thing was somewhere else," said an administration official.

"I find that harder to stomach than the fake meeting between the queens," said Mr. McVicar, while acknowledging that "there a little kernel of truth, since Leicester was twice a suitor for Mary's hand".

Anyone who has ever needed noise-canceling headphones in her own office or marked an online calendar with a fake meeting in order to escape yet another real one knows what I'm talking about.

Unlike the former naval boss, who was lured into a fake meeting on the high seas to be arrested, Mr. Injai remains free in Bissau, the dilapidated capital of the small Western African nation, where he has helped lead two coups d'état in the last three years and is widely considered the real force behind the impoverished country's nominal government.

The MacArthur Foundation, famous for its secrecy, arranged a "fake meeting with a fake undergraduate" to be sure she'd be alone in her office when they called, she says.

At least twice a week, a fake meeting would be scheduled on my Google calendar by one of my co-workers.

The U.S. embassy in Canberra, Australia issued an apology on Sunday for a fake meeting invitation that was emailed from the State Department that featured a picture of a pajama-wearing cat.