Sentence examples for sham issue from inspiring English sources
One would lift the ban on sham issue ads financed with soft money raised by supposedly independent groups.
It would outlaw soft money to political parties and prevent the use of corporate and union money for sham issue ads close to an election.
Public Citizen, the liberal consumer group, asserts in a new report, "These sham issue ads are really designed to help industry allies who face tough re-election campaigns".
The players feel that the league has already reneged on a promise made in 1993 not to raise the sham issue if the union ever decertified again.
"The sham issue ads provisions are harder because this is new ground for the court," Mr. Simon said, adding that they would require at least a reconsideration of the standard set in the Buckley case.
Such money is not supposed to be used to help specific candidates, but both parties now routinely use soft money to promote candidates in sham "issue" ads, thus evading federal laws that limit direct donations to political candidates.
The evil work of the Gilded Age continues because the system it put in place remains substantially the same, enabled by a political culture that has, Mr. Beatty argues, "insulated industrialism from democracy through a politics of distraction, based on the manipulation of real hatreds and sham issues".
She called his Feb. 18 White House meeting with civil rights activists a sham, while issuing a long list of utopian demands.
Ahrar al-Sham, however, issued a statement on Thursday formally withdrawing from the conference over the participation of some political opposition members "linked to the regime" and the underrepresentation of armed brigades, as well as the conference's failure to put emphasis on the Syrian people's "Muslim identity".
As has been discussed (Neale and Sham 2004), this issue is perhaps especially pertinent in the context of GWA studies.
(One defendant in the case, Ian Nisbet, wrote a book about the sham verdict Gomaa issued and the entire ordeal).
