Sentences with phrase «of sham of»

To quote one of Woody's earlier, funny movies, Scoop is truly «a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.»

«For decades, college basketball has been nothing short of a sham of amateurism and [a] fraudulent one - year holding pen for the NBA.

For being silly enough to allow this kind of sham of a fight to even exist.

Maybe my ideal of Christian marriage is different that the author of this sham of a God - bashing article, but our love life is amazingly wonderful.

Not exact matches

It said the delays were part of a «sham process.»

The list did not include the most surprising fact of all, which was that (at least at the time) Theranos was a sham and Holmes was engaged in fraud.

Many of the «competitive advantages» listed by many media moguls are «shams,» the authors say.

«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.

The move follows a May 2015 lawsuit against four sham charities, including Cancer Fund of America and Cancer Support Services, that alleged that cumulatively, the four organizations scammed donors out of more than $ 187 million.

Judge Denny Chin called Aereo's setup a sham and said the individual antennas are a «Rube Goldberg - like contrivance» — an overly complicated device that accomplishes a simple task in a confusing way — that exists for the sole purpose of evading copyright law.

Chris Anderson, who literally wrote the book on «free,» faces off with the tech gurus who say «free» is the great sham of the digital age.

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.»

Indeed, to those who watch the space closely, there seems to be no shortage of ways to lose all your money in the blink of an eye, be it by investing in a sham startup or unwittingly sending everything you own to a hacker.

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.

Oâ $ ™ Leary was a failed and unethical businessman, who sold a sham of a company to Mattel, the toy manufacturer, in what Businessweek later called one of the worst deals of all time.

The criminal charge related to using the cover of sham consulting agreements to funnel or agree to funnel payments in the amount of US$ 2 million to two entities owned and controlled by Chad's ambassador to Canada and his spouse.

Usually, the audience has no way of determining which cryptocurrency news is a sham and which one is genuine.

Someone created a sham company in the United Kingdom that bears the name of Telegram's blockbuster crypto project, the Telegram Open Network, which has raised...

Vladimir Putin, who after a sham «referendum» completed his aggressive seizure of Crimea, denies he has plans to invade Eastern Ukraine.

this really goes to the core of how any tolerance between religions is a veneer and a sham, and we see the results every day.

Post-life, sham baptisms of anyone is just silly.

Which were then found by Joeseph Smith and strangley no one else has seen them... but the church still claims to have them in the Temple... what a sham... folks... this religion is more of a cult than mine...

Theories of electromagnetism and quantum mechanics is a sham!

Instead of this sham experiment he probably figured would get him noticed.

But if an atheist's answers are less than comforting under the looming threat of death, covering them with sham religious ornamentation will not make them more comforting, although it might make them less honest.

To the slave, Douglass told his white audience, «your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mock; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all...

My own way of explaining this phenomenon is that these young people (who are most intelligent and can not be fooled by so much sham in present society) are really looking for a meaningful faith, for a satisfying form of transcendence.

You can get a hint of this by reading the Hebrew of these words: «Saw lesaw saw lesaw, qaw leqaw qaw leqaw, ze'ir sham ze'ir sham.»

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.

It is the faith «that there is really only One Power which, while at times it may permit the sham powers of the world to accomplish something in opposition to it, never permits such accomplishment to stand.»

The outcome of the battle may be sure, but the casualties are going to be real, not sham.

I have said that his prayer, while full of Scripture and pious language, is actually a big sham.

She visits detainees and leads the apostleship of prayer group in taking radical options on certain political issues like boycotting sham elections.

Finnegan's suit alleges that the archdiocese «actively concealed their knowledge of Kline's previous offenses, lied to parishioners and created a sham sexual abuse victim assistance program for the archdiocese.»

Sorry to tell u. but ur age of grace is a sham.

It's like «Wow, that sham really picked up 8 gallons of water in 2 seconds!»

To reduce causal objectification, and thereby the immanence of the earlier in the later, to a mere repetition of eternal objects, is to make the repetition of occasions a sham repetition.

Elizabeth Smart did not approve (in any way) of her sham marriage to this man.

He refuses to take seriously the Whiteheadian affirmation of freedom in all occasions (PR 355) and makes a sham of Whitehead's attempt to avoid a bifurcation of nature.

The so called biblical definition of marriage is a sham.

Religion is Man's greatest SHAM costing him everything and is responsible for the death's of Billions during History in the names of GOD and Jesus.

«If the club of the policeman, knocking out the brains of the rioter, will answer, then well and good; but if it does not promptly meet the exigency, then bullets and bayonets, canister and grape — with no sham or pretense, in order to frighten men, but with fearful and destructive reality — constitute the one remedy and the one duty of the hour....

The problem with the «pragmatic» politics of Mike Murphy and the Republican elites is that their pragmatism and their support for inclusion was a sham.

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.

We have seen the sham of AGW and might gain ground, even socially, by noting that the «false prophets» of doom are wolves pretending to be shepherds.

It has become fashionable in some circles to argue that science is ultimately a sham, that we scientists read order into nature, not out of nature, and that the laws of physics are our laws, not nature's.

Although I think Dottie is an amalgem of anvil head, akiria, tom is an idiot, lol, Jim bye the science guy, Sam the sham, Bert and Ernie I love lucy I love me very much

The earlier secularist appearance of tolerance toward religion is now seen to have been a sham.

In a day of shams, it was a religion of veracity rooted in spiritual inwardness, and a return to something more like the original gospel truth than men had ever known in England.