Sentence examples for for a sham from inspiring English sources

SHAM results from a sham election for a sham parliament in other words, business pretty much as usual for poor Belarus.

Coast's troubles started when undercover federal investigators prepared plans for a sham medical study involving a make-believe surgical product to see how closely companies like Coast evaluate the studies they are paid to review.

But the New York police said yesterday that Biotech was a fraud, and that the Web site served as a billboard for a sham company that offered so-called date-rape drugs for sale around the world.

An assemblyman from one of Brooklyn's most prominent political families struck a secret deal to use his influence in Albany on behalf of a hospital chief executive in return for a sham consulting job that paid him about $175,000, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.

Rumeal Robinson, who led Michigan to the N.C.A.A. men's basketball championship in 1989 and later played in the N.B.A., was convicted in federal court in Des Moines of borrowing more than $700,000 for a sham business deal and then spending the money on a condominium, expensive furniture and cars.

MGs practised a focused attention meditation technique; ECGs were told that they were practising meditation but were given instructions for a sham meditation.

In fact, some analysts go as far as to claim that big data is nothing short of a sham for most retailers and SMBs.

He has said that attacking freedom of the press is "how dictators get started," and lashed Trump in March for congratulating Vladimir Putin for winning a "sham election".

Examples of EMG recordings for these times are shown for a sham-infected (Figure 2A) and WNV-infected hamster (Figure 2B).

Karimov is being castigated by critics for holding a sham election in which his rivals are effectively campaigning for him – but many voters are staunchly in favour of their authoritarian leader clinging on to power.

Roosevelt was later criticized for creating a sham process.