Sentence examples for phony goods from inspiring English sources

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Office of Investigation in Phoenix, said customers who buy phony goods also unwittingly support criminal enterprises.

Here is Rendezvous's quick guide to phony goods in markets where Mr. Obama is stopping — Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia.

China is considered one of the worst offenders in counterfeiting foreign goods like CD's, videos, electronics and luxury watches, and the occasional crackdown is often publicized by showing a steamroller crushing the phony goods.

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So it isn't the brutal truth that is shown, but something more like office politics with an exotic setting and bizarre comrades, complete with alliances and betrayals, friendships and rivalries and aggression cloaked by phony good feeling.

B1 Police Corruption Charges Five veteran police officers were charged with accepting phony designer goods from a street peddler in exchange for providing confidential information about search warrants aimed at counterfeit goods.

Among the dislikes: "Greek Hellenistic Sculpture," "Painters — Phony," "Elegance," "Good Taste".

The pilot nails both the Darwinian grimness of Silicon Valley — where even a liquor-store clerk complains that his app hasn't been funded — and the way it gets packaged in phony do-gooder-ism.

With the arrogance of successful con men, they now want to sell us the same phony bill of goods again: more oil and food and "safe" reactors in return for more empty promises of shell-game inspections.

This latest cinematic crack at "Gatsby" certainly gives us much to criticize, but the way in which reviewers have impatiently dismissed the film, adopting the tone of aggrieved consumers sold a phony bill of goods, is disappointing.

And that there is no evidence of manipulation nor undue speculation in the trading of oil contracts on the commodity exchanges, citing the findings of the that toothless "see,hear, and speak no evil" watchdog the Commodities Futures Trading Commission CFTCC) thereby selling the beleaguered American consumer a phony bill of goods.

Kids have good phony meters.

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