Sentences with phrase «benefit of a sham»
From the viewpoint of a totalitarian regime, there is a benefit of a sham election: You can mark the ballots with invisible ink and use this to identify people who vote «incorrectly».
https://politics.stackexchange.com/ Not exact matches
The stories exposed self - dealing at the Nature Conservancy; sham deductions taken for protecting facades on urban buildings; and jaw - dropping write - offs for golf resorts, whose chemical - doused fairways and private membership seemed at odds with the goals of protecting natural habitat and providing «significant public benefit.»
The new minimum income rule will improve the benefit to Britain and stop the sham marriages of non-EU with E Europeans who even fly in for the occasion.
The researchers are recruiting for additional clinical trials involving 20 tDCS sessions and a randomized sham - controlled protocol, to look for additional evidence of benefits of tDCS.
In comparisons of actual TMS versus sham TMS, most but not all recent meta - analyses have found relatively small to moderate benefits of TMS in terms of clinical response.
However, another large randomized sham - controlled trial of TMS added to antidepressant pharmacotherapy showed no significant benefit of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex TMS.
There are also plenty of blog posts calling all bestseller lists a bunch of hollow shams that benefit no one.
Despite the fact that HSUS had worked to kill similar bills in Texas, New York, Florida, and elsewhere, I was more optimistic about shelter reform legislation succeeding in Minnesota because two HSUS representatives — a Board member and Jennifer Fearing, the person in charge of sheltering policies for HSUS — personally assured me at a meeting in San Francisco just over a month ago that the days of HSUS claiming «neutrality» (a sham in and of itself given it benefits the status quo) but then working to kill shelter reform legislation were over.