Sentence examples for sham one from inspiring English sources

Proponents of participation, on the other hand, argue that an election, even a sham one, puts stress on the regime, thereby creating a chance for change.

Subjects were randomly assigned to: 1) nVNS: one 120-s electrical stimulation on each side of the neck using the gammaCore device and b) Sham: one 120-s electrical stimulation of the median nerve on each wrist using the gammaCore device.

Daesh is based on an acroyn for Al Dawla al-Islamyia fil Iraq wa'al Sham, one of the names Isis used to go by.

"Testing is a sham," one marketing consultant says.

BOSRA SHAM One of Cecil's favourites, his pain when she was beaten in the 1997 Eclipse was very evident.

Nobody believes those who would go to the extreme of defying court orders in an effort to keep a Ten Commandments monument on public land are doing so with no religious agenda--even if it is a sham one in order to curry political favor.

THERE were more harsh words for Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, this week, as well as more promises of tough action against his regime following his re-election in a sham one-man run-off on June 27th.

Any elections, even sham ones, offer a figleaf of respectability that can be worn at international gatherings such as those of the African Union.

Many claimed they had yet to decide who to elect from a bewildering array of unfamiliar candidates, and some were sceptical that the latest crop of prospective parliamentarians would be any different than the sham ones which preceded them.

Borrowing ideas from Dr Wilbur's work about the motions characteristic of telic and atelic verb signs, the team even invented nine of each from scratch: respondents accurately spotted the correct, sham ones 64% of the time.All of this, Dr Strickland says, challenges the long-standing notion in linguistics that the relation between a symbol and its meaning is arbitrary.

At day 4 after operation, metabolites changes were observed in model rats after compared to sham ones.