Sentence examples for phony foundation from inspiring English sources
"If it's got a phony foundation, you can use it that season.
Eventually, she is asked to take part in an operation code-named "Sweet Tooth," which involves using a phony foundation to cultivate writers who might promote an anti-Marxist, pro-West perspective in articles or speeches.
According to the complaint filed by federal investigators, Ms. Buckingham agreed to pay a bribe of $50,000 to a phony foundation in order to have someone else take the ACT college-entrance exam on behalf of her son Jack, earning him a 35 out of 36 points.
This is done through cut-outs, phony foundations, numbered accounts, intelligence proprietaries, leveraged currency speculation through proxies in unregulated hedge funds and a hundred other financial devices.
Finn and Couvée document the role of the CIA in publishing and disseminating Dr. Zhivago through a host of "front organizations and phony foundations," including Bedford Publishing Company, and in smuggling copies of the novel into the Soviet Union.
Both advisers are accused of using shady tactics, like opening phony businesses in Hong Kong and fake foundations in Liechtenstein to conceal the money from the Internal Revenue Service.
Sobinbank was no phony institution.
Be Honest -- Relationships built on false build-ups or phony facades are only as good as their foundation.
Phony cosmetics such as eyeliner, mascara, lip gloss and foundation have been found to contain toxic levels of chemicals and harmful substances such as arsenic, mercury and lead.
