Sentence examples for such a mockery from inspiring English sources

"It was such a mockery that we called each other comrade," she said.

What a pity that Fred Wilpon has made such a mockery of these principles that personified Robinson, and so many of us hold dear.

Mr Mugabe, however, is less interested in sensible land tenure than in rewarding cronies, which is why the land he seizes from white farmers so often goes not to peasant farmers but to people like the registrar-general, who has helped make such a mockery of the election, and the chief justice, who presides over a compromised judiciary.

Take France: the same Rafale fighter jets it tried to sell to Colonel Muammar Qaddafi are now being sent into action against him.The European Union, too, is revising its "neighbourhood policy" in the hope that its claim to be promoting economic and political reform in return for greater integration with the EU will no longer seem such a mockery.

By making such a comprehensive mockery of the processes of public consultation and proper parliamentary scrutiny, Drip in all its disappointment should seed scepticism, anxiety, and restless distrust.

Others got busy slamming Southern California for making such a public mockery of the rules, like Dennis Dodd of CBSSports.com, and Bill Plaschke wrote in The Los Angeles Times that it showed the arrogance that permeates the Trojans' programs.

While some lauded what they saw as a brave political statement, the producer of the show got a rap over the knuckles for allowing such an open mockery of a state institution.But things in Iran rarely move in one unified direction.

Such quirks make a mockery of the EPA's tests.The EPA has yet to reveal its draft methodology for testing the Volt and other plug-ins.

The presence of such countries makes a mockery of the UK's much-vaunted system of arms export controls, which supposedly restrict arms sales to "responsible countries".

Not only do such impulses make a mockery of liberal ideals (freedom, tolerance, that sort of thing); they are also likely to worsen the underlying problems.

Papelbon laughed — "The whole thing got to be such a joke, a mockery, really," he said — but Wagner, turning serious, later told him not to feel threatened by his arrival.