Sentence examples for travesty from from inspiring English sources

It was a political, not a judicial act, a travesty from start to finish.

There has been no mention of this travesty from any "objective" endemic media.

The law must be changed to prevent such a legal and moral travesty from happening again.

Even more regrettable is that every time a Casey Antrial-type trial captures the public's attention, someone gets the idea that we need a new law in response to the completely unrepresentative case, a law that presumably would have prevented that particularly travesty from happening.

In reading "Doping's Sad Toll: One Athlete's Tale From East Germany" (front page, Feb. 6), one could easily get the impression that the whole travesty resulted from the overly developed competitive instincts of German doctors, who are now facing trial for their sports-inspired misdeeds.

And then there's the "travesty" bit from Kevin Trenberth, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

While it's arguable that running for student government on false pretenses accomplishes little, what truly separates the Travesty candidates from their opponents is the fact that it's very clear what their motivation is in running in the first place.

Those last two informational travesties resulted from what increasingly passes for reporting: taking a story written by someone else, distilling it (badly), sprinkling it with Googled facts, and passing it off as news.*.*

If we want to prevent this travesty of voting from happening again, we need to get National Popular Vote passed in these states.

"This was one of the longest trials in US history, and it has been a travesty of injustice from the moment of the arrest right up to the trial, sentencing, and subsequently the treatment, with two of the wives unable to visit their husbands," he said. .

Like all reality shows, "Buckwild" has its critics, and chief among them is West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who -- despite having no problem playing to stereotypes when it's suited him -- decried the show in a letter to MTV's president Stephen Friedman as a "travesty" that profits from its depictions "of the poor decisions of our youth".