Sentence examples for false cloak from inspiring English sources

Some critics we'll call these the hard critics—assert that such apparently rights-protective constitutions cannot effectively and legitimately serve to protect individuals against the oppressive forces of governments.[24] On the contrary, they only serve to mask legal and political practice in a false cloak of legitimacy.

Instead of the curbing of rights-threatening government power for which the idea of constitutionalism is supposed to stand, we have political suppression disguised in a cloak of false constitutional legitimacy.

Let us hope that this emotional impulse is not being masked in the cloak of false pragmatism.

The U.S. has a long and disappointing history with choosing ideology over evidence, and public discourse has often been grounded in framing opinion in a cloak of false equivalence.

Or is it just a marketing ploy cloaked in false patriotism?

If opposing parties would put aside hate and racism cloaked in false piety, perhaps there could be real efforts at helping save lives and restore families.

It is politics cloaked in a false ethical cloth.

That perfectly describes the internet, a realm where everyone can choose to be cloaked in a false identity.

"The actions of the terrorists and drug traffickers, cloaked in a false veil of religion, reinforce the inevitability of military action".

To his credit, in reacting to his material -- as any writer is bound to do -- Guttridge does not attempt to cloak disaster under a false mantle of heroics.

And all the more so when they try to cloak those actions in false words of holiness.