Sentences with phrase «made as a sham»

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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.

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.

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

Steve: Tell you a quick story, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh once, which I do as an exercise every once in a while, and he was talking about how, you know, environmentalism is a sham because this is actually what he said: «How can we believe, how can humans believe that we could possibly damage something that God made?»

The other group of patients underwent an elaborately crafted sham surgery, during which the patient was sedated, three incisions were made in the same location as those getting the real surgery, and the patient was shown a prerecorded tape of someone else's surgery on the video monitor.

Thoughtfully made with pure cotton, this jersey knit duvet cover and sham are as stylish as they are soft.

As we'll see, others of similar SHAM stature hail from far less convincing backgrounds; they proclaim themselves «relationship therapists» or «dating coaches,» made - up specialties that require no particular licensing yet sound credible, thus duping unsuspecting patrons by the millions.

They've mastered the art of shuffling money around and churning funds to both maximize brokerage commissions and make it look like they're adding value, but as John Bogle revealed in «The Little Book of Common Sense Investing,» it's all a sham.

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.

And, as Jeremy Bentham mocked in 1843, is their claim that special old words make contracts precise nothing more than a «sham plea»?

Sinister uses — making business, i. e. occasion for fees; making complication, thence confusion, uncertainty, uncognoscibility, materials for sham science, & c. & c. Examples: — In English common law, causes sent from King's Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer, to Nisi Prius, or Assizes, and back again: in Equity, from Chancery, or Exchequer, to town examiners» office, or country commissioners, and back again: and from the superior to a subordinate judge: — In Scottish practice, vibrations between the provincial courts and the metropolitan; and in the metropolitan, between outer and inner house: in both, as well as in the provincial courts, between the deciding and some evidence - collecting judge.

If I ever get imbursed from this claim, I will cancel every jot of service from this company and make it my life's mission as long as there is breath in my body to steer as many people as I can away from dealing with this sham of a company.