Sentences with phrase «afoko as a sham»

The lawsuit challenges the OCC's procedure as a sham to avoid the Administrative Procedures Act, alleging that the OCC acted as if it was simply amending its licensing manual.

Otherwise, it all comes across as the sham it is, meant to make people get over it rather than actually addressing the problem.

Because I support my country / team, I must unthinkingly venerate all those who represent my country / team, lest my support for my country / team be exposed as a sham.

By ruling they way they did, the NCAA exposed themselves as a sham organization.

Western countries have already condemned the elections as a sham, following the lead of resistance leader Aung San Suu Kyi who called for a boycott when they were announced.

Former Member of Parliament for Kwadaso, Hilda Josephine Addo, has described the suspension of the National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Paul Afoko as a sham.

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the Vote Leave campaign, said: «David Cameron's claim to be battling for Britain has been exposed as a sham by this top Eurocrat.

From his royal decrees that groups who don't agree with him are SPECIAL INTERESTS to Andy's labeling as a SHAM statutes regarding Medicaid trend factors that his own father, Mario Cuomo, did nothing to change, Andy has become the «Crazy Eddie» of politics.

Jane Feldman has gone back to Colorado a sadder and wiser woman after having been cozened into serving as a sham ethics chief for the New York State Assembly.

Lawyer Addison had after the party's parliamentary primaries questioned the integrity of the process describing it as a sham.

Philip Addison earlier boycotted the primaries, describing it as a sham.

All in all, Season 7 acts as a sham, a bluff package.

Loads of priceless gags are mined from Tim and Daisy's marriage pretense and Marsha's failure to recognize it as a sham, and by the end of the series there's even some bittersweet pathos in regard to the situation.

So, I did think twice before recommending a book that effectively writes off the entire self - help arena as a SHAM.

Adler speaks to the often cited issue of publishers fearing piracy as a result of ebook lending, a concern pooh - poohed as a sham issue by many critics of publishers on this matter.

Neoclassical economists, who have dominated the Fed for over 40 years, drove us into a huge inflation, which Volcker choked, and then Greenspan & Bernanke drove us into a liquidity trap by refusing to let recessions eliminate bad debt, creating the «great moderation,» which is now known as a sham.

At the same time, only someone desperate to eradicate modernity could write the present off as a sham or as conceptual art.

It is also understandable that they get irritated by those who try to expose CAGW as a sham, since they generally have enough wits to perceive that this would make them somewhat part of the sham, and nobody likes to be called a crook.

Without that Heartland's pretence that the truth is their business is exposed as a sham.

If the agent notices anything suspicious, he may disregard your gifts as sham transactions and reclassify them as your assets.

The more the immigrant spouse's legal rights in the marriage are limited, the more likely immigration officials are to view the marriage as a sham and the couple as engaged in marriage fraud.

They stop just short of describing the Commission's activities as a sham, if not in whole than at least with respect to its consideration of alternative structures.

Such a finding was more likely where, as in Cable & Wireless, the agency arrangements had been superimposed upon an existing employment relationship, so that those arrangements could be viewed as a sham or, at least, not reflecting the true position.

Well, if you have no idea all, it's basically this — cryptocurrencies are seen as a sham and another economic bubble ready to explode.

But all the reports regarding a cheap iPhone by Apple is proved as a sham as the company's Senior Vice President, Marketing Worldwide, Phil Schiller denied the news and states that the company will never introduce a cheap smartphone.

The IRS may look at that as a sham way of having IRA leveraged without the tax.

Not exact matches

Sham Chaabo, 24, inhales from the pipe's business end as the potent tidbit flares and quickly turns to dark smoke.

Jabhat Fateh al - Sham, which was known as Jabhat al - Nusra before it formally severed ties with Al Qaeda, has a presence in the city.

Nusra cut ties with the terror organization in August and rebranded itself as Jabhat Fateh al - Sham.

An al - Qaeda offshoot known as Hayat Tahrir al Sham has since taken responsibility for the attack, according to Long War Journal.

President Donald Trump's campaign Friday blasted as a «sham» a lawsuit by the Democratic National Committee which claims the campaign conspired with Russia and Wikileaks to attack Hillary Clinton and help get Trump elected by releasing hacked computer files.

«This is a sham lawsuit about a bogus Russian collusion claim filed by a desperate, dysfunctional, and nearly insolvent Democratic Party,» said Brad Parscale, Campaign Manager of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. «With the Democrats» conspiracy theories against the President's campaign evaporating as quickly as the failing DNC's fundraising, they've sunk to a new low to raise money, especially among small donors who have abandoned them.

Specifically, SHKRELI, assisted by GREEBEL and others, defrauded Retrophin by causing it to: (i) transfer Retrophin shares to MSMB Capital even though MS ~ B Capital never invested in Retrophin; (ii) enter into settlement agreements with defrauded MSMB Capital and MSMB Healthcare investors to settle liabilities owed by the MSMB Capital and MSMB Healthcare funds (the «MSMB Funds») and SHKRELI; and (iii) enter into sham consulting - agreements with other defrauded MSMB Capital, MSMB Healthcare and Elea Capital investors as an alternative means to settle liabilities owed by the MSMB Funds and SHKRELI.

Its stock fell as much as 12 percent in the four weeks after it agreed on Sept. 8 to pay $ 185 million to settle charges by regulators and a Los Angeles prosecutor regarding the sham accounts.

Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president for communications and public policy, and David Ginsberg, its director of research, said in a blog post on Monday that the company had made «real progress» in dealing with hoax stories and sham accounts since the 2016 election and the campaign, known as Brexit, to withdraw Britain from the European Union.

Will it continue, as backers insist, or is the bitcoin price rise a sham investment, as some industry veterans say?

Trust me, the IRS now, any corporate they go to sham partnerships with as tax shelters, they basically just have to write a check.

Folks, this is what this grand sham known as religion is all about!

Lionized in the 1920s as a trendy man of fashion, he became increasingly conservative in politics and churchmanship and notorious for his truculent contempt for the sham enthusiasms of modernity.

Sham Pearls for Real Swine by franky schaeffer wolgemuth & hyatt, 290 pages, $ 14.95 In 1948, a young American minister from the conservative Bible Presbyterian Church moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, to serve as a missionary to Europe.

«Pseudo» as in; counterfeit, pretend, a sham.

= > you mean godless unions as God would never approve such sham marriages.

Religion is a sham that has plagued mankind for as long as history has been recorded.

It resists those tendencies in the humanities to narrowly and perjoratively construe «performance» as mere fakery, sham or pretense.

If «sectarian instruction» is defined so broadly as to include that one - minute prayer, then Charitable Choice's alleged protection of the religious identity and character of FBOs is a sham.

I was a leftist, a liberal, a liberationist, yet here was a story that portrayed liberalism, in the form of the Harvard professor Henry Rutledge, as moral disorder, and leftist liberationism, in the professor's students — one a black activist, one a Jesuit — as a posturing sham.

But with Christ, hierarchal relationships are exposed for the sham that they are, as the last are made first, the first are made last, the poor are blessed, the meek inherit the earth, and the God of the universe takes the form of a slave.

It was laid on George Fox that these conventional customs were a lie and a sham, and the whole body of his followers thereupon renounced them, as a sacrifice to truth, and so that their acts and the spirit they professed might be more in accord.

Dwight Conquergood uncovers a potent meaning embedded in the etymology of «performance» to displace the usual connotations of performance as «sham» or «pretense.»

Austere as well as paternal, authoritative and kingly as well as merciful and gracious, terrific in judgment against selfishness, cruelty, and sham as well as forgiving to outcasts and prodigals, Jesus» God was revealed not so much in the words he used about him as in the life he lived with him.