Sentence examples for in phoney from inspiring English sources

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It deserves better than this Government engaging in phoney excuses to limit its authority.

In the Netherlands, arguably the world leader in phoney disablement, a tougher government line on physical disability has encouraged more folk to claim mental disability.

Duncan accused critics who said these schools would flourish at the expense of existing state schools of indulging in "phoney debates".

In 2005 KPMG was fined $456m after it admitted to a fraud that generated at least $11bn in phoney tax losses for clients.

The IRS accused KPMG of peddling a series of tax shelters to rich investors, involving Cayman and other OFCs, which generated $11 billion in phoney tax losses and deprived the government of at least $2.5 billion in tax revenue.

She has engaged in phoney populism, calling for a temporary break on petrol taxes, praising "hardworking Americans, white Americans", vowing to "totally obliterate" Iran and waving the bloody shirt of September 11th.

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The whole crew, protective of her, coached her: in snagged crochet gloves, she gave the truest performance in that phoney film: her Hortense abandoned herself as totally as an adolescent to hope.

We are in a phoney war.

As a result, we've wasted a quarter century in a phoney argument about whether the climate was changing.

If anyone had mentioned wafer-thin mints in a phoney French accent, I wouldn't have thought it funny.

He was lured into a trap, leaving his forest hideout in a phoney ambulance on his way, he thought, to have a cataract operation.

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