Sentence examples for shammed from inspiring English sources
Still, life has not been kind to her. "I've been smacked, slugged, stripped, shammed, shamed, smothered, shocked and stung," she says to Bailey.
Joshua Marquis ("The Innocent and the Shammed," Op-Ed, Jan . 26 impugns the innocence of three individuals portrayed in "The Exonerated," Sonia Jacobs, Kerry Cook and Robert Hayes.
In "The Innocent and the Shammed" (Op-Ed, Jan . 26, Joshua Marquis says that after an exhaustive study, several students and I were able to document only 340 innocent defendants who were exonerated between 1989 and 2003.
"The Innocent and the Shammed," by Joshua Marquis (Op-Ed, Jan . 26, a district attorney in Oregon, exemplifies the reluctance of prosecutors to acknowledge the severity of the problem of wrongful convictions in this country.
The recent indictment of Wegelin, a Swiss private bank being sued for helping Americans to evade tax, is peppered with references to "sham" companies and foundations, set up in places like Panama and Liechtenstein to conceal the identities of the bank's clients.
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 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.
The blogger wrote that he was initially drawn to the al-Qaida linked group Jabhat al-Nusra and another Islamist militia, Ahrar al-Sham.
