Use "sham" em uma frase

1. ‘After the birth I just could not carry on pretending that our marriage was anything but a sham … so I told him the whole story

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2. To her, the art school system was a sham, 'Well I for one can't see the king's new clothes'

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3. Eventually, I also learned that he and Karen occupied separate rooms (at her request) and that their marriage was something of a sham

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4. think I realise that this investigation is a sham – meant to

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5. The discipline of the college, at the same time, may enable him to force all his pupils to the most regular attendance upon his sham lecture, and to maintain the most decent and respectful behaviour during the whole time of the performance

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6. False imprisonment and torture of five Virgin Island independence activists convicted of the murder of eight tourists in a sham trial in the 1970s

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7. All five were tortured by police and then convicted in sham trials, which included jury members threatened by police

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8. I have a sudden, horrifying thought: What if she only married him because she was supposed to, as part of her mission in the city? What if their entire relationship was a sham?

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9. When it seeped out in the cafeteria that some kid posing as “Uncle Sham” was giving a speech outside, the word spread

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10. “I want you!” Uncle Sham shouted, pointing to the small group as he balanced himself on a wooden crate

11. “The take down was all a sham

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12. The investigation into Mary Steinhauser’s death was nothing but a sham!

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13. Then again would a proper police force have seen through the sham?

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14. is nothing more than a sham

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15. The confident posture he had struck for the benefit of his young and inexperienced troops seemed to him like a sham that any moment might be revealed, to the detriment of all

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16. “Market exchange” was a sham, because the central authority fixed all wages, prices, and interest rates

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17. Even if he surrendered engineering now, which was tempting, and admitted the whole message from Intel Wing was a sham, he couldn't avoid consequences

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18. for they all knew politics was a sham and that the

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19. When there was a lot of pressure on the British, they created sham legislative governments made up Indians who had no power to do anything

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20. Sham governments without any power were created to keep educated Indians happy and also promote divisions in the society on the basis of religion and caste

21. If you ask me it was a sham

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22. ignorance then civilisation itself is a sham,” Howard stated

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23. tell the truth that these so-called miracles are a sham

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24. The spokesman then paraded his whole company before us, knowing the results of the epidemic before us, and even knowing it was a sham I still quickly moved out of reach as one of them tried to touch me, regaining some measure of composure, I looked at Coatl and could see he was totally mesmerised by the performance we were witnessing

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25. ‘Why then’, she asked, ‘did the British not allow them a place in the victory parade? ‘And why did you fail to get Churchill to acknowledge Stalin’s guilt over Katyn and his own over Teheran and Yalta? The Alliance with Britain was a hollow sham

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26. The rest were sham religions, and anyone supporting them, were less than

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27. The Grand Inquisitor, in a sham of a trial, had found him guilty last week of witchcraft and heresy

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28. five minutes the sham was complete and Lill declared the trial to be over

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29. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful

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30. With sham indifference I said, ‘Why should he want to come? He’s not

31. This sham of a religion provided cultic certainty for the weak minded and

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32. But we know that rationality is a sham

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33. one sham in his life was more than enough

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34. How was it that days filled with love and joy and laughter, days that should be treasured in your memory forever, could, with the right circumstances—or were they the wrong ones?—and the fading of time, appear from the present to be nothing more than a mirage, or worse, a complete sham, only to be remembered not as fondly as they ought to be, but instead with a poisonous resentment lingering underneath

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35. [27] Al Sham state (Greater Syria), which was comprised of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine

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36. 5 hours in either morning or evening, or with a sham negative

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37. After that, whenever Djemal Pasha met Officer Mohammad Amin, he always took the initiative to greet him with a smile, saying, ‘Hello Abu Sham

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38. ’ And he began to recount what had happened when the prefect of the Sham [53] countries, Djemal Pasha (known as ‘the Assassin’ for his terrible deeds), had entrusted him with a high-level assignment…

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39. Yes, she wept and so too did the wife of the Pasha, the ruler of the state of Sham

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40. That grave old gentleman had been sitting on a chair in front of the door of his house reading the Holy Qur’an after the noon prayer – which was a custom of the people of Sham [76]in the past

41. That era was witness to great honour due to the humane, illustrious performances and sacrifices of a certain Arab officer who outshone all his peers amongst the ruling Turkish officers in the state of Sham

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42. level of prestige with the high commander of Sham’s Armies and the other authorities; he gained too, the deep affection of his compatriots because of his unparalleled readiness to help them, and eventually his awesome reputation spread to every corner of the state of Sham

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43. ‘Of course, the same cannot be said of the rest of al- Sham

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44. He recited the first chapter of the Qur’an, the Opening (al-Fatiha Surah) for the sheikh’s soul according to the custom of the people of Sham

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45. [66]- The state of Sham was Greater Syria and comprised: Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine

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46. [80]- The state of Sham, Greater Syria, was comprised of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine

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47. [91]- Al Sham state (Greater Syria), which was comprised of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine

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48. This is really nothing but a sham that is practiced on naive people

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49. “I’ve brokered plenty of armament purchases where the origin of the funds was buried in a sham of fronts, as was as the ultimate recipient of the purchase

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50. As Steve Salerno writes in SHAM: How the Self-

51. For instance, in SHAM, Steve Salerno accuses psychiatrist Thomas Harris and similar authors of claiming that “you were

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52. What did it mean? Was it merely a sham? Or was it a result of his excesses? Or had Carton's relentless pursuit, the raid of Margot's, and the conviction of Dopey Jack, driven the Smiling Boss really insane?

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53. him, and to come to the realization that it was a sham was very

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54. He probably knew it was a sham wedding, but these were desperate times, and the pair had already been through a tough time

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55. This is the unspoken Protestant Dream: the dream of worldly success, of a career, of social respect and status, gaining recognition and fortune and fame by hard work… And it is all a sham: it is a load of utter garbage

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56. The revival that we have heard so much about these couple of days that accompanied Evan Roberts was denounced by a Congregational minister—Peter Price was his name—as a sham and a mockery

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57. I’m quoting him now, “a sham and a mockery, a blasphemous travesty of the real thing

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58. The sham of the Russian Empire being on a par with industrialized Europe was exposed to all Russians

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59. After corrupting the whole world into the worship of money, the undead are ruining the hoax on purpose; confident that living human dupes will never see through the sham

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60. He was the type who sought after to dictate over his women and she absolutely did not want that in her life…even if it was all a sham

61. “I’m beginning to think that you only came up with this sham so that you could have me to yourself

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62. She could not allow Marco to purchase something costly for a sham

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63. “It was selfish of me to force her into our sham of an engagement…I regret it more than ever at the moment

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64. Woolly Bully – Sam the Sham

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65. It was all a sham and all knew it, but it was a pleasant

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66. Though how this man knows it was a sham, is a wonder of wonders to me

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67. Worthy Sancho enjoyed himself for three days at the expense of the pair, from whom they learned that the sham wound was not a scheme arranged with the fair Quiteria, but a device of Basilio's, who counted on exactly the result they had seen; he confessed, it is true, that he had confided his idea to some of his friends, so that at the proper time they might aid him in his purpose and insure the success of the

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68. He established and created an alguacil of the poor, not to harass them, but to examine them and see whether they really were so; for many a sturdy thief or drunkard goes about under cover of a make-believe crippled limb or a sham sore

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69. But you know that's simply a farce, that's simply a sham, it's just laughing at you, and you are taken in by it!

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70. She wanted to break through the sham of it, smash the trivial coating of business which covered him with hardness, get at the man again; but she was afraid, and before she could feel one touch of his warmth he was gone, and she ached again

71. I highly commended it, I think it was the smallest house I ever saw; with the queerest gothic windows (by far the greater part of them sham), and a gothic door almost too small to get in at

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72. He filled his own moustachecup, sham crown

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73. —And here comes the sham squire himself! professor MacHugh said grandly

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74. going about with some of them Sinner Fein lately or whatever they call themselves talking his usual trash and nonsense he says that little man he showed me without the neck is very intelligent the coming man Griffiths is he well he doesnt look it thats all I can say still it must have been him he knew there was a boycott I hate the mention of their politics after the war that Pretoria and Ladysmith and Bloemfontein where Gardner lieut Stanley G 8th Bn 2nd East Lancs Rgt of enteric fever he was a lovely fellow in khaki and just the right height over me Im sure he was brave too he said I was lovely the evening we kissed goodbye at the canal lock my Irish beauty he was pale with excitement about going away or wed be seen from the road he couldnt stand properly and I so hot as I never felt they could have made their peace in the beginning or old oom Paul and the rest of the other old Krugers go and fight it out between them instead of dragging on for years killing any finelooking men there were with their fever if he was even decently shot it wouldnt have been so bad I love to see a regiment pass in review the first time I saw the Spanish cavalry at La Roque it was lovely after looking across the bay from Algeciras all the lights of the rock like fireflies or those sham battles on the 15 acres the Black Watch with their kilts in time at the march past the 10th hussars the prince of Wales own or the lancers O the lancers theyre grand or the Dublins that won Tugela his father made his money over selling the horses for the cavalry well he could buy me a nice present up in Belfast after what I gave him theyve lovely linen up there or one of those nice kimono things I must buy a mothball like I had before to keep in the drawer with them it would be exciting going round with him shopping buying those things in a new city better leave this ring behind want to keep turning and turning to get it over the knuckle there or they might bell it round the town in their papers or tell the police on me but theyd think were married O let them all go and smother themselves for the fat lot I care he has plenty of money and hes not a marrying man so somebody better get it out of him if I could find out whether he likes me I looked a bit washy of course when I looked close in the handglass powdering a mirror never gives you the expression besides scrooching down on me like that all the time with his big hipbones hes heavy too with his hairy chest for this heat always having to lie down for them better for him put it into me from behind the way Mrs Mastiansky told me her husband made her like the dogs do it and stick out her tongue as far as ever she could and he so quiet and mild with his tingating cither can you ever be up to men the way it takes them lovely stuff in that blue suit he had on and stylish tie and socks with the skyblue silk things on them hes certainly well off I know by the cut his clothes have and his heavy watch but he was like a perfect devil for a few minutes after he came back with the stoppress tearing up the tickets and swearing blazes because he lost 20 quid he said he lost over that outsider that won and half he put on for me on account of Lenehans tip cursing him to the lowest pits that sponger he was making free with me after the Glencree dinner coming back that long joult over the featherbed mountain after the lord Mayor looking at me with his dirty eyes Val Dillon that big heathen I first noticed him at dessert when I was cracking the nuts with my teeth I wished I could have picked every morsel of that chicken out of my fingers it was so tasty and browned and as tender as anything only for I didnt want to eat everything on my plate those forks and fishslicers were hallmarked silver too I wish I had some I could easily have

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75. And she lived in fear, not of losing our dad, but of having her sham of a marriage exposed

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76. ‘A sham! with what object?’ said Varenka gently

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77. danger, it would amount to my simply trying to gain a certain sham reputation by such a challenge

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78. The sham chaplain came into our cells to exhort us, carrying a black bag, supposed to be full of tracts, and so often did he come that by the third day we had each stowed away at the foot of our beds a file, a brace of pistols, a pound of powder, and twenty slugs

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79. He has convinced himself that the whole show of getting it away to sea is a mere sham got up to deceive Gamacho and his Nationals, Pedrito Montero, Senor Fuentes, our new Gefe Politico, and himself, too

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80. His courage, his magnificence, his leisure, his work, everything was as before, only everything was a sham

81. Directly his schooner was anchored opposite the New Custom House, with its sham air of a Greek temple, flatroofed, with a colonnade, Captain Fidanza went

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82. She had apparently been known to put clients on hold in order to take calls from her imaginary husband, and it was only after an acting acquaintance of T Bone Burnett had asked after “my wife” by the wrong name that the sham marriage was uncovered

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83. But you know that's simply a farce, that's simply a sham, it's just laughing at you, and you are taken in by it! Why, do you suppose he really loves you, that lover of yours? I don't believe it

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84. Dunlap turned out to be a sham who used improper accounting and false financial statements to mislead Sunbeam’s investors—including the revered money managers Michael Price and Michael Steinhardt, who had hired him

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85. But he told me his marriage was a sham

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86. She said to a girl almost at Tom's elbow—with sham vivacity:

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87. "A sham wedding," retorted another

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88. And while upon this matter of detail, it is remarkable that the long leverages of their machines are in most cases actuated by a sort of sham musculature of the disks in an elastic sheath; these disks become polarised and drawn closely and powerfully together when traversed by a current of electricity

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89. He talked with his voice rising slowly, through the greater part of the eighth and ninth days--threats, entreaties, mingled with a torrent of half-sane and always frothy repentance for his vacant sham of God's service, such as made me pity him

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90. I only remember that she shouted that " my words were a sham, the broodings of a petty soul, counted over and turned inside out