Sentence examples for on a sham from inspiring English sources

Mohamed ElBaradei, one of the leaders of the new opposition coalition the National Front, said voting on a "sham constitution" was illegitimate.

That soothing response was based on a sham, she believes.

We would like to come in on a sham battle on a foggy day.

And then we twatched him embrace his wife and head off to jail for five years on a sham charge.

In testimony in March before a House subcommittee, Mr. Frank said Facebook's payment to the new charity bordered on a sham.

It hired a dozen or so white-haired extras to serve on a sham executive committee (sometimes called the "cabinet fiduciary") and furnished each gentleman with a matching blue tie.

Lord Lawson's climate-sceptic think-tank is under review by the Charity Commission, it has emerged, as one of its leading advisers was revealed in an undercover sting to have offered to write an academic paper casting doubt on global warming on behalf of a sham oil company.

"Sharing economy" firms like the car services Uber and Lyft have always been based on something of a sham: the idea that the drivers are working for themselves, not for the bosses.

It sort of depends on your definition of a sham and a mockery.

He said: It is completely unacceptable for Russia to use force to change borders, on the basis of a sham referendum held at the barrel of a Russian gun.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron said: "It is completely unacceptable for Russia to use force to change borders on the basis of a sham referendum held at the barrel of a Russian gun".