Sentences with phrase «national joke»

Dressed as clowns, they described it as «a state - funded advertising agency for Charles Saatchi» and «an ongoing national joke», adding that it should be renamed The Duchamp Award for the destruction of artistic integrity.

Who wouldhave thought that William Hague would go from national joke to a nationaltreasure?

The audience would be in on this cruel national joke at the expense of these people, and the contestants would find out the true intentions of the show by the end.

The organisers of a rival exhibition, The Real Turner Prize Show, which opened in London yesterday, denounced the prize, one of the most prestigious in the world, as «an ongoing national joke».

«San Francisco values,» once something of a national joke, drive contemporary California politics with a whip hand.

As Dawson talks about the»60s, when Marshall lost so often that it was a national joke, a door bangs open at the opposite end of the room, and a coach enters with a cameraman and a sportscaster.

This is the same Kruger the feds are investigating for corruption and who got his lofty perch by taking part in the coup that made Albany a national joke last year.

If elected, Donovan said he will dedicate his office to rooting out public corruption because New Yorkers «are tired of their state government being a national joke on «Saturday Night Live» every week.»

Pedro Espada, out of sync with and generally lacking a commitment to the state Democratic Party that he ditched last summer in a coup that reduced the Senate to a national joke?

«One District Chief Executive makes a comment which we should be angry with, but it has become a national joke and we just carry on and on.

Cuomo's speech was a break with tradition done in the hope that he will be able to break another tradition — the obstruction and corruption that has made Albany a national joke.

On election night 2010, when he won the office his father had occupied for three terms, Andrew Cuomo declared his election signified a new day for New Yorkers «angry» their state government's storied graft and incompetence had made it a national joke.

Tonya Harding, who is remembered, if at all, as a national joke; whose real achievements as a figure skater are completely forgotten, and who was at the center of a scandal that was even more ridiculous than it was shocking.

The consistently poor results and endemic corruption of Ohio's charter school system has become a national joke, and Imagine Schools is doing its part to ensure that the jokes keep coming.

Having had to face the fact that the state's skimpy teacher salaries were making us a national joke, legislators have made stabs at bringing them up to respectability — not only because of pride, but also because the state's public schools absolutely must have an ample supply of well - qualified, experienced classroom leaders.

Yesterday the Stuckists, whose co-founder Charles Thomson is standing against Culture Secretary Chris Smith in Islington, opened five exhibitions all called Vote Stuckist across London, to vie with the Turner announcement, which they described as «a national joke».

This initial protest saw members dressed as clowns; denouncing the prize as a «national joke.»

Its exhibits have divided opinion among critics and public alike and a protest group formed in 2000 - the «Stuckists» - have branded it a «national joke».

The Turner Prize is a national joke.

I'm sure the Canadian Federation of Students will want my head on a platter for this, but the artificially low tuition fees the B.C. law schools are forced to charge are a national joke when you see what other law schools cost and what lawyers have the potential to earn.

Quotes from the previous chief economist for the National Association of Realtors (NAR), David Lereah, became a national joke during the Great Real Estate Boom and Bust of the 2000s.