Sentence examples for through a sham from inspiring English sources
Hong Kong's chief executive, Leung Chas-ying, has taken us through a sham consultation.
It turned out to be owned, through a sham company, by two school principals prominent in Italian-American politics.
Mr. Smith was charged with using a bogus shelter to evade taxes on $18 million in personal income through a sham Cayman Islands entity in 1998.
According to Italian court filings, suspicious payments allegedly flowed through a sham offset contract for software with help from a Swiss-based consultant.
Mr. Lukashenko, who was elected in 1994 and has warned that Belarus will descend into chaos if his rule ends, has been accused of illegally prolonging his term through a sham constitutional referendum, but he remains popular among peasants.
Instead, our own government has taken Hong Kong through a sham consultation and we now have a very rigid framework handed down by Beijing that in effect says to the people of Hong Kong: you can have one person, one vote, provided we pre-screen all the candidates so that we are 100% in control of the final outcome.
Alison (appealingly played by Alison Fyhrie) has second thoughts on the day of her wedding to the good-natured Phil Philip Quinazz), but the two decide to go through with a sham ceremony for the sake of the guests.
As Humbert, James Mason's musical, gentrified tones go a long way to ensuring that the film retains some decorum, even while the infatuated professor goes through with a sham marriage to the girl's widowed mother (a nicely contrasting camp performance by Shelley Winters).
Collins is not the first American pro team athlete to come out – that accolade goes to 1970s baseball player Glenn Burke, whose team then offered to pay him to go through with a sham marriage – but he, thus far, seems to be having the easiest time of it, a sign that, as Clinton says, some things have definitely changed.
This prompted the latest round of harumphing about what a catastrophe Frank McCourt has been — with Bill Plaschke writing in the Los Angeles Times that it's McCourt who should be considered bankrupt, not the proud franchise he wrecked — and how baseball should have seen through him as a sham artist, writes Dan Shaughnessy on SI.com.
As long as God is in the controlling position this view assigns to him, it might be argued, the apparent moral autonomy of free creatures, and the destiny they achieve through it, is a sham — something visited upon them, rather than legitimately chosen.
