Sentence examples for sham- from inspiring English sources
The Ukrainian government and western powers have rejected the referendum as a sham.
But if Syriza is unable to succeed in rolling back some of the spending cuts imposed by the EU, it will not only make a sham of the recent democratic election held there... but it could also bring increased support for the Greek neo-Nazi party, Golden Dawn, which took third place in that election.
The former Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid labelled Icac a "sham" and a "star chamber" after it handed down three reports recommending the director of public prosecutions consider pressing criminal charges against him.
Steve Swerdlow, a central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, said Karimov's "sham re-election" would condemn Uzbekistan's citizens to life under virtual totalitarian rule unless the US and European Union began pressuring him to make reforms.
Inside is a leader heaping ordure over "Labour's sham manifesto" and a spread likening Miliband to Bart Simpson with the headline "Manifest-doh!".
The blogger wrote that he was initially drawn to the al-Qaida linked group Jabhat al-Nusra and another Islamist militia, Ahrar al-Sham.
The abbreviation stands for Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant ("al-Sham"), which is why some people call it Isil.
THE civil war in Syria, a nightmare for most Syrians, is a dream come true for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the latter name being variously translated as "Greater Syria" or "the Levant".
In March it led the attack on the north-eastern town of Raqqa, the largest one now under rebel control.In this section Let them remit A tale of two families The struggle to restore calm Competition among Islamists They're not ill ReprintsPolitically Ahrar al-Sham has been clever.
It has recently clashed with other Syrian groups, something Ahrar al-Sham has so far avoided.
