Sentence examples for the charade that from inspiring English sources

The ease with which big-money donors are able to influence the nation's politics is nowhere better illustrated than by the charade that gives tax exemptions to obviously partisan political groups posing as "social welfare" organizations.

The charade that goes on at Bobbie's Place has lured Jewish mothers from across the city, and it has also helped Mr. Schick and his 16 cousins keep a promise to their grandmother, who died three years ago at 93.

"The charade that went on, that he had already been tried in the Dominican Republic, was an affront to the American criminal justice system," said Jeanine F. Pirro, the district attorney in Westchester County.

"I think the governors have got to come out and pick your poison," LePage said, "because I'm telling you, we've got to stop the charade that went on last night".

In a 1996 opinion, an Illinois appellate judge, exasperated by "the charade that has become the Batson process," catalogued some of the flimsy reasons for striking jurors that judges had accepted as "race-neutral": too old, too young; living alone, living with a girlfriend; over-educated, lack of maturity; unemployed, employed as a barber; and so on.

Though D'Angelo wrote one great couplet, on "The Charade," that has already been quoted too often — "All we wanted was a chance to talk, 'stead we only got outlined in chalk" — it is the timing of the release that will stand as the most political aspect of this album.

The June presidential election pitting the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, against Mohammad Khatami (a former president who once spoke in a synagogue) will be a genuine contest as compared with the charades that pass for elections in many Arab states.

He said: "You played your full part in the grotesque charade that was the 999 call whilst subjecting your dead daughter to the indignity of pointless CPR when you knew full well she had been dead for two hours".

More than merely idle, she was a destructive and even contagious force, "the epitome of the fraudulent charade that passes for being a parent these days".

The false charade that has been blowing in the wind atop flagpoles across the south has finally worn threadbare allowing the light of the ugly truth to be seen.

The report chronicles the economic hardships that most Egyptians endure on a daily basis, the way a rotten education system lets them down, and the elaborate charade that is elections in Egypt.