"sham offer" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe an offer that is not genuine or sincere. Example: The company's promise of a bonus was nothing but a sham offer to placate their disgruntled employees.
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Hyatt told MediaGuardian.co.uk that "the offer they made was a sham offer, purely to suggest they were engaged in negotiations when in fact they were not".
But on Saturday, through a Foreign Ministry spokesman, North Korea said Mr. Bush's plan, which was conveyed last month in Beijing, was "a sham offer" because it required North Korea to disarm and submit to intrusive inspections before it could get the full benefits of economic concessions from the United States, Japan, South Korea and Russia.
Mockridge was also accused of making a "sham offer" to Current TV – to make it look like News Corporation, Sky Italia's owner, was engaged in normal commercial negotiations – when in fact the Murdoch-controlled media group had decided to drop the channel for what Current TV claimed are political reasons.
William was so imbued with the traditions of the Prussian monarchy that it was painful for him to accept Bismarck's foundation of the German Reich and the imperial title, which came to him by a sham offer (arranged by Bismarck) from the German princes.
Any elections, even sham ones, offer a figleaf of respectability that can be worn at international gatherings such as those of the African Union.
The main concern is that sham surgeries offer no therapeutic benefit, while exposing patients to unnecessary risks—a threat to the ethical principles of beneficence and non-maleficence.
In Hong Kong, where student-led protesters this week marked a month of sit-ins on big thoroughfares, American officials have voiced support for their main demand of genuine universal suffrage in the election for the territory's chief executive in 2017, rather than the sham version offered by China.Yet Mr Obama has held his tongue on the protests.
"The Jerome and Sham each offered 10 points for a win, four for second, two for third and one for fourth.
Thus, comparison of MCLT + MMT with the MCLT sham group offers an opportunity to investigate behavioral modifications related to focal cartilage and meniscus damage in the rat.
We're targeting bogus colleges that offer sham courses.
