Sentences with phrase «as a sham»

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

Most aspects of traditional culture will be wiped out or preserved only as a sham, for example.

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

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

If you get married and have a strict prenuptial agreement the likelihood that immigration officials will treat the marriage as a sham marriage which does not qualify to allow him to receive a spousal visa for immigration...

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.

We came across several that I viewed as a sham — either a bunch of names listed on the page with no indication that they actually engaged in ongoing relationship (which is required under ethics rules for a group of lawyers to hold themselves out as affiliates).

In these cases «the code of ethics comes out and it's instantly dismissed as a sham because the employees really know what's happening and it's not covered [in the code] or it's addressed in a different way.»

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.

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.

In any case it is this attitude which makes a total mockery and reveals as a sham, the Tory Party's claim to be an inclusive and «Gay Friendly» political movement.

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.

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.

Subjects who had had TMS performed 33 percent better, compared with those who received placebo treatments, such as sham stimulation.

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

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.

Essentially this sort of action is treating the employer plan as a sham and simply a conduit for increasing the amount of contribution to your IRA above the set limits.

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

Through pro bono representation, Ram was able to expose the documents provided by the restaurant owner as a sham.

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.

I'm sure that the IRS may kick out many notes that appear to be made as a sham, but I'd guess that such are usually not the initial reason for an audit but such determinations are made later.

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

If you get married and have a strict prenuptial agreement the likelihood that immigration officials will treat the marriage as a sham marriage which does not qualify to allow him to receive a spousal visa for immigration purposes is great.

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.

Most Muslims will regard this «conversion» as a sham, and interpret it as «making fun of the Prophet» rather than a serious effort to understand Islam.

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

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.

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.

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