Sentence examples for sham contest from inspiring English sources
Opposition parties are marginalised; elections are like televised wrestling, a sham contest between carefully vetted contestants.
Aboriginal sporting traditions included wrestling, spear-throwing contests, sham fights, various types of football using possum-skin balls, spinning discs and stick games".
Closer to home, Lisa Henderson, a sophomore at Kansas State University writing on the Pork Network Web site, objected that the judges' predisposition made the contest a sham.
He was referring to Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party, the National League for Democracy, was not contesting what it called a sham election and had called for a boycott.
The attic story bore corbels supporting masts from which royal sailors manipulated awnings to protect the 50,000 seats from the sun during the gladiatorial contests, combats with wild animals, sham battles, and, when the arena was flooded, naval displays.
In fact, the entire contest was a bit of a sham because everyone knows weight drops off faster when you have more to lose.
