How To Use Travesty In A Sentence
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I think that is a travesty of justice if that occurs and I'm against it totally.
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I suppose that I have to ask why you have not in turn commented upon the ailurophilia of T.S. Eliot, whose work, by comparison, seems like a travesty of Smart ….
Existentialolcaturday : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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I felt this to have been a very dangerous proceeding, for if le bon Dieu had noticed Ghislaine's travesty, He might have made the wind turn, and she would then have remained a deviless and been forced to live in hell for all eternity.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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He has a good sense of humor about his situation, but it makes it nonetheless a travesty of justice and humanity.
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As an absolute and omnicompetent power, from the standpoint of psychological realism it is both an ethical travesty and a practical absurdity.
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The showpeople left calling it a travesty of justice.
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It would be a travesty if this case were to undermine the confidence of victims.
Times, Sunday Times
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Langdale described the court ruling as a travesty of justice.
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What a total travesty of anything remotely resembling justice.
The Sun
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The conviction of Iran / Contra whistleblower Celerino "Cele" Castillo III late last year on federal charges of dealing in firearms without a license is beginning to look more and more like a travesty of justice.
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What eventually took its place was a travesty of the real thing, a mockery of the power that could raise men to heaven and give them the glimpse of God for which they gladly died.
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Peyrade had the power of travestying everything, even his wit.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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The most curious feature of the performance is that here again it is from end to end a travesty of Éliphas Lévi, slice after slice from his chief writings, combined with interlineal additions, which give them a sense diametrically opposed to that of the great magus.
Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
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Liberals insisted that their trial was a travesty of justice and called for their release.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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It would have been a travesty had either side lost this out and out thriller.
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The second lesson must be that we need to understand that blaming the residents of Sighthill for the events of the past week is simply misguided and a travesty of the truth.
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Not only is it a travesty of diagnostic pathology but also it is a travesty of justice if the wrong information is given to the court.
Times, Sunday Times
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By full time, it bordered on a full-blown travesty of justice.
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Highness to rule save a tract so small that the word principality will be a travesty and a jest.
Graustark
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Mrs Thatcher had just won her first term, and we were in for a general hardening and factionalizing in the whole society, with a concomitant travestying of the realities of the factionalized groups.
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However, what each of the Gospels describes - though disagreeing quite radically on details - is nothing that deserves the name legal proceedings but rather a travesty thereof.
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Perhaps he meant his play to be a parody of a pre-war drawing room drama rather than the travesty that was portrayed on the stage of Richmond Theatre.
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My position was always agree to revote in MI & FL ASAP so it didn't gome down to this travesty.
Wolfson: Even If Florida And Michigan Aren't Seated, An Obama Victory Would Be Legit
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Clear Channel Communications, Inc is directly responsible for the travesty that is Rush Limbaugh.
Think Progress » Limbaugh’s ‘Cheap And Disingenuous’ Call For People To Jam Congressional Phonelines
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Too bad Beijing has not wised up to this travesty, and has done nothing to help the Chinese exporters yet, leading to the loss of likely hundreds of billions of dollars in Chinese IP through this predatory practice by major Western companies.
Hu Jintao's visit: the story the media missed | Dean Baker
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Perhaps he meant his play to be a parody of a pre-war drawing room drama rather than the travesty that was portrayed on the stage of Richmond Theatre.
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To even mention the possibility of creating such a travesty is a crime, and not a very organized one.
‘The Sopranos’ is Dead, Long Live ‘The Sopranos’ « Skid Roche
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Their production of 'Macbeth' was quite the worst I've ever seen - it was a travesty.
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Even from the standpoint of elementary bourgeois democratic principles, the constitution is a travesty.
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However, the big travesty is that if you live in Manhattan delivery is free – you live in the Bronx and the sale is no sale at all.
Wine prices - beating the spread online and in-store | Dr Vino's wine blog
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From start to finish, the treatment of the defendants was a travesty of legal due process.
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Their production of 'Macbeth' was quite the worst I've ever seen - it was a travesty.
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His self-penned songs track his career from despondent dreams of stardom to the travesty of having achieved them.
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If you do not put your name forward to be leader of the party it will be a travesty.
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The lieutenant governor of the colony was an ambivalent, placative man named George Arthur, who might well have preferred that travesty of humaneness.
The Song of The Dodo
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The ninth house I lived in was a funky modern architectural travesty.
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And maybe, it is not such a great travesty of justice if you go home.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a travesty of a result but we play with style and it's a trifle early to worry yet.
The Sun
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Langdale described the court ruling as a travesty of justice.
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The thing is a travesty.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the two idiots, gibbering and mouthing strange noises, danced apart, grotesque, fantastic, travestying love as they themselves had been travestied by life.
Koolau the Leper
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It hardly takes a brilliant operatic dramaturge to see through this brainless travesty, loaded with irrelevant inventions and non sequiturs.
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But United getting something out of the game would have been a travesty.
The Sun
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It would be a travesty if officials are blamed and MPs get off scot-free.
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What eventually took its place was a travesty of the real thing, a mockery of the power that could raise men to heaven and give them the glimpse of God for which they gladly died.
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It is the travesty of justice which lets the guilty off so lightly that has galvanised public fury.
The Sun
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The broad outlines of this travesty of responsible policing were already known.
Times, Sunday Times
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He called ADC’s decision was a “travesty” and said he almost didn’t attend.
Arab American Forum Marred by Discord Over Song
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The common belief that the British were obliged to shoulder the main burden of World War I is a historical travesty.
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We will walk through a travesty of language, where truth is but a signs system and actions are always appear flanked by a pair of stars.
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To me, there is one great travesty in this situation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The whole world watched the travesty that passed for election with deaths, maiming, etcetera from the hands of government forces when the masses took to the streets to protest.
Senators call for regime change in Iran, but differ on how
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Paragot's travesty of mountebankery or rags, but which singularly enough seemed hidden beneath his conventional garb -- the inborn and incommunicable quality of the high-bred gentleman.
The Belovéd Vagabond
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The participants are adults, they know what they are in for and if it is a travesty of human dignity, it is a victimless travesty because they want to do it and we want to watch it.
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Even today, in this age of designer bars and huge superpubs, the pint of lager is generally an insipid, watery travesty.
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But United getting something out of the game would have been a travesty.
The Sun
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Federal prosecutions like this are a travesty of justice - with plea bargains being used as straight-out subornation of witnesses.
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The Villain Still Pursued Her," tells as plainly as a whole paragraph could that the playlet is a travesty, making fun of the old blood-and-thunder melodrama.
Writing for Vaudeville
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Denied effective legal counsel prior to his indictment, Stewart's trial at Inveraray in September 1752 was a travesty of justice.
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Gardens in the Arab world today, for example in the Emirates, which grow where once nothing grew at all, are very worthy but a travesty of the original.
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After a travesty of a trial, Conde was given a five-year jail sentence for an alleged breach of national security.
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It's a travesty because if anything the axis of power has been tilting back towards men in recent years.
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And that is a travesty of justice by any civilised standard.
The Sun
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And if he isn't crowned King of the Jungle in 24 hours time, it will be a travesty of the highest order.
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O'Toole's clear blue eyes and brittle voice flood with so much anguish and pain that even Pitt's fixed pout and the awful lines cannot make a laughable travesty of the scene.
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Their marriage was a complete travesty.
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Losing a biome is a travesty -- it would mean loss of innocent life, the compromised ability for people and animals to feed and shelter ourselves, and the complete altering our our weather and season patterns which impacts our agriculuture and ways of living.
Archive 2008-08-01
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But the premise of the movie (that Cruise fights off the Martians) is a travesty of the book.
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TO be bishops and it's a complete travesty that they aren't already.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the revised scheme still contains this clause it will be a travesty.
The Sun
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It is a travesty of a result but we play with style and it's a trifle early to worry yet.
The Sun
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It was a travesty of the human voice, inhaling as she spoke and exhaling between words, breathing and speaking in a completely unnatural rhythm.
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It's a travesty that she's in jail at this point and she's protecting some source, who is not in jail or who is not even fessing up to relieve her of that responsibility.
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Those men and women, many of them mums and dads, have paid a terrible price for what amounts to a shocking travesty of justice.
The Sun
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Shame on F&S for publishing this! on another post, CJK wrote It's an absolute travesty that Field and Stream would run an article like this.
Man made global warming? No way!
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Everybody who truly loves food knows gorging on just one or two dishes in a good restaurant is a travesty.
Times, Sunday Times
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TO be bishops and it's a complete travesty that they aren't already.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was ‘a travesty of democracy’ that MPs were yesterday denied the right to a proper vote on the issue, she said.
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That opening sentence originally read ‘Scent and smoke and sweat hit the taste buds with an acid thwack at three o'clock in the morning’ - a limp travesty of the polished version.
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I total agree with CJK It's an absolute travesty that Field and Stream would run an article like this.
How You Can Fight Global Warming
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The planning meeting, in my opinion, was a travesty of democracy.
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It is a travesty that such a gifted person should pay such a high price for blatant discrimination in a western country in the 21st century.
Times, Sunday Times
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And of course the second thing he does through this travesty is to minimise the Holocaust itself and the crimes of the actual Nazis. and thus to betray the memory of those who died.
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Everybody who truly loves food knows gorging on just one or two dishes in a good restaurant is a travesty.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is outrageous, unforgivable and a total travesty of the law.
The Sun
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What a total travesty of anything remotely resembling justice.
The Sun
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His claim is a travesty of the facts.
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The broad outlines of this travesty of responsible policing were already known.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I called the OAS press office for a statement on the travesty in Ecuador, the person who came to the phone would only say that the OAS has "no comment.
Obama Gives Ecuador's Caudillo a Pass
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But the real travesty is Sam.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a complete travesty to change what happened.
The Sun
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And maybe, it is not such a great travesty of justice if you go home.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pennsylvania's Supreme Court addressing what it calls a travesty of justice by a judge accused of putting cash over kids.
CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2009
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But the real travesty is Sam.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would be a travesty if this case were to undermine the confidence of victims.
Times, Sunday Times
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I want back especially my Fourth Amendment rights (no warrantless wiretaps, FISA restored, an end to the travesty that is called “civil forfeiture”, and an end to no-knock SWAT raids).
Matthew Yglesias » Requests We Can Believe In
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You can spin for the Arctic char but it's a travesty if you do so.
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Their trial was a travesty of justice.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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We need to finish our business in Iraq and Afghanistan as quickly aspossible, which is why it is a travesty that the Iraqi Parliament hasgone on vacation while 130,000 U.S. troops are standing guard.
Chinalyst - China blogs in English
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iran elections a travesty mockery a victor without a victory turning green with envy the peoples verdict bought down like a debris que sera sera whatever will be will be the mandate has a right to disagree a looming shadow of doubt to some degree the curse of the holocaust will bring his ego down to his knee enter the dragon a voice of the people called mir hossein mousavi
Archive 2009-06-01
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Is a travesty of justice about to unfold?
Times, Sunday Times
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It would have been a complete travesty if she had won.
The Sun
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To me, there is one great travesty in this situation.
Times, Sunday Times
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That we are justified in thus partially travestying the technical methods of some of our modern scientists, so called -- especially those of the materialistic school -- those advocating a purely physical theory of life, we need only quote a sentence or two from
Life: Its True Genesis
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It would be a travesty to put her in athleisure.
Times, Sunday Times
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They call themselves doctors, travestying what was once a noble profession, but in reality they are medicine-men, devil-devil men, and they make for superstition and darkness.
Page 3
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His sons and he then form a group, the sausage-snake is twined about them, -- only the old story is reversed, and he bites the serpent instead of the serpent biting him, -- and all die in agony, travestying the ancient group.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
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Pensioned by the British Government, which permitted him to continue this absurd travesty, if his feeble exasperation over his predicament and his silly ostentations could be called by that name, this realmless potentate occupied his waking hours in futile revilings of the hand that at once smote and sustained him.
The Flaw in the Sapphire
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And that is a travesty of justice by any civilised standard.
The Sun
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It is the travesty of justice which lets the guilty off so lightly that has galvanised public fury.
The Sun
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Zola borrowed more, but mainly the unwholesome parts, truncating these further to suit his theory of the novel as a slice of life seen through a temperament, and travestying in the Rougon-Macquart scheme, with its burden of heredity and physiological blemish, Balzac's cumbrous and plausible doctrine of the _Comedy_.
Balzac
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Their marriage was a complete travesty.
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He pondered the matter and saw that if the announcement in plain type on the billboards and in the program that his playlet was a travesty was not enough, he would have to tell the audience by a plain statement from the stage before his playlet began.
Writing for Vaudeville
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I wish you had come a couple of days earlier and seen a concert performance they gave us, travestying the coaches.
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The result is an unhappy divorce between student and school which is a grotesque travesty of all that the IBO stands for.
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This boondoggle is a travesty to the American people.
A fitting memorial for Sen. Ted Kennedy. | RedState
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The Prom was a travesty to two great band leaders.
Times, Sunday Times
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All religious leaders have been talking of homosexuality as a disease , but nobody talks about the cancer of terrorism that they have created by their bigotry and narrow mindedness..the taliban, the fedayeen is a greater disease that kills without remorse and we spend a fortune to show that Justice prevails carrying bugger all for those that were gunned down by Kasab and his friends.. this is the travesty of justice , a system that is a terror in itself sending the wrong message home..
Archive 2009-07-01
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Celibacy, as commonly understood, is therefore a meaningless parody or travesty of the true formula.
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The thing is a travesty.
Times, Sunday Times
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In short, it is a travesty of not only scholarship, but plain common sense.
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In another travesty of justice connected to the 2009 attack for which four men were executed, two opposition members acquitted in a civilian trial in March were retried in August by a military court and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Lisa Misol: A Corrupt Dictator Tries to Buy UNESCO's Brand Name.
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It is outrageous, unforgivable and a total travesty of the law.
The Sun
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If I had the power, I would have every single one of these inhuman monsters responsible for this travesty flayed alive.
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This travesty of Richardson's novel became the most frequently reprinted edition of the early 19th century.
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Not only is this a fiscal travesty but, more importantly, our health care decisions are being made by unqualified persons with purely fiscally based agendas.
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This is indeed a shame and a travesty of national proportions.
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Liberals insisted that their trial was a travesty of justice and called for their release.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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What a total travesty of anything remotely resembling justice.
The Sun
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Blurry, washed-out and uninspired, it has gone from being a graphical masterpiece to a visual travesty.
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That would be a travesty of justice.
Times, Sunday Times
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However defeat for Seamus Grant would have been a travesty of justice given all that he has delivered to the county for fifty years and more.
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The first organisational meeting of the IUS was a travesty on Democratic procedures.
Europe Is Dying
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It's a travesty, a mockery of our Constitutional system, and they will not rest until this hideous distortion of all that is good and decent has been ended once and for all.
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The sight of him, so sitting, tragically travestying man, has been considered, and is considered, "educative" by multitudinous audiences.
CHAPTER XXXIII
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Okay, first, I was eight when the Sixties ended and had nothing to do with the whole harvest gold - avocado green travesty.
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Still, if the only way you can sell - I mean, with free seating, give away - the classics is by travestying them, why bother?
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Hillary and the two Australians set out in November 1998 on what became a travesty of the Scott epic.
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Even a travesty of justice must follow correct procedure.
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And if this travesty is allowed to stand, very few new and fabulous writers will be able to follow the path I've walked.
Urgent reading for all Aussie book lovers
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That would be a travesty of justice.
Times, Sunday Times
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We, at the appeals tribunal do not think Mr Fawkes received a fair trial - and consequently we believe there has been a travesty of justice.
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When I survey the world of the New Humanities, what I see is a travesty of what I understand by the life of the mind.
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O'Brien described his trial as a travesty of justice .
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This misuse of public money is not a new travesty.
The Sun
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My earlier post on this travesty is here, including a link that casts considerable doubt on any pretensions of "impartiality" by Mark Thompson himself.
Archive 2009-01-01
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If the revised scheme still contains this clause it will be a travesty.
The Sun
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O'Brien described his trial as a travesty of justice .
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Not only is it a travesty of diagnostic pathology but also it is a travesty of justice if the wrong information is given to the court.
Times, Sunday Times
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We hate it and regard it as a travesty of justice when applied to others, especially others whose sins hurt us.
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Denied effective legal counsel prior to his indictment, Stewart's trial at Inveraray in September 1752 was a travesty of justice.
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The Prom was a travesty to two great band leaders.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet to the extent that Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) is remembered at all today, he is usually misremembered, which is a travesty.
The Wizard of Tuskegee
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How that one got past the speaker is a travesty of fiscal accountability.
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It's a complete travesty to change what happened.
The Sun
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The trial was a travesty of justice .
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The trial was a travesty of justice .
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Council leader Jenny Dawe called CAE's decision to blame the council "a travesty".
Undefined
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This misuse of public money is not a new travesty.
The Sun
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Her research suggests that Smith's reputation today is a travesty of what he really stood for.
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Is a travesty of justice about to unfold?
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a travesty that there is still misogyny and sexism in the labor movement.
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The participants are adults, they know what they are in for and if it is a travesty of human dignity, it is a victimless travesty because they want to do it and we want to watch it.
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I have until this year been a champion refusenik of the tournament, a money-grubby, on-dragging, mobile-phone-touting travesty that traditionally brings me out in a nasty case of apoplexy.
Why cricket's World Cup underdogs have knocked me for six
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It would have been a complete travesty if she had won.
The Sun
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But let me warn you—it's really, really hard watching so much taxpayer cash wastefully go up in flames, especially when the travesty unfolds so slowly.
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Their trial was a travesty of justice.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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I may not approve of all that Jones has done but seeing Al Davis in Oakland year after year destroying a franchise is a travesty.
Gang Green
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The broad outlines of this travesty of responsible policing were already known.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet I labour day by day travestying it, caricaturing the beautiful thoughts that come into my mind.
Red Pottage
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Though I have maintained medical insurance throughout my adult life – at great expense, especially during periods of unemployment – This I vow: if this disgusting travesty is signed into law I will immediately and permanently drop my coverage.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Health Care Bill At 60
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I am of an age when I can hear the style as a travesty. of course segar has the contract, so…
SPELUNKING - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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It is an odd thing that people will facilely assent to Don Adriano's protestation against a certain travestying of Hector, -- "Sweet chucks, beat not the bones of the dead, for when he breathed he was a man," -- even while through the instant the tide of romance will be setting quite otherwhither, with their condonation.
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
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Doesn't this travesty cast into doubt the whole case for combining an empowered president with a pliant court?
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July 13th, 2009 10: 27 am ET this is a travesty of justice; trying to, and probably will succeed in installing this incompetent judge.
Sotomayor's confirmation hearing set to begin
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We Americans sent her home to Alaska in the election because we didn't want another hairbrained idiot in Washington (Bush!!!) and figured we'd just send him home and try something new since what we had didn't work in any form except in murdering our kids, making a travesty of our economy, creating unknown depths of hatred around the world ...
Palin set to let the tweets 'fly'
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Those men and women, many of them mums and dads, have paid a terrible price for what amounts to a shocking travesty of justice.
The Sun