Sentence examples for sham around from inspiring English sources

Embedded with Salih's unit on Tuesday, I watched as they patrolled a road in the village of Hasan al Sham, around 30 miles from Mosul.

Despite not having read any of his nearly 20 other books, I was convinced the Bolaño craze was a sham around a mediocre foreign writer who died young and was being fetishized by profile-worshipping Americans who thought he had done something new when really he was just another boring narrative writer.

Several hundred demonstrators - Palestinians and their Syrian supporters - marched to the razor-wired fencing and trenches close to the frontier village of Majdal Shams at around noon.

The Free Syrian Army, a rebel umbrella group, has around 25,000; Southern Front, around 25,000; Jabhat al-Asala wal Tanmiya, around 5,000; Faylaq al-Sham, around 4,000; Islamic Front (Ahrar al-Sham, Jaish al-Islam and al-Tawhid Brigade) around 30,000.

Sham group (SHAM).

And in the greatest democracy in the world, voters weren't going to take this kind of sham switching around names on a ballot at the whims of local party bosses".

On Day 1 the Sham rats performed around 75% reflecting how the task immediately benefited from the spontaneous alternation bias, while the Fornix rats only performed around 60% correct (Fig. 9).

And the system would be a sham if all judges went around doing this".