So why does Mr. Khamenei, the paramount leader, even bother with the charade of popular elections?
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Sam got another 2 years tagged on to the 20-year sentence for his charade.
That helped keep the charade going until news of Fastow's off-the-books paychecks emerged in 2001.
Even if American investors are content to continue this charade, the Chinese are not.
He described the legal battle with IBRC, the former Anglo Irish Bank, as a 'charade'.
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At a recent conference in Qatar, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestine's president, tried to stop the charade.
The facts are however, that the whole affair was little more than a charade.
To make matters worse, we'd already been warned that this charade was about to happen.
For his part, Hun Sen was quick to deride the trial as a charade.
In reality it was more a carefully scripted charade than any serious conflict of ideology.
According to the report, the SEC started the whole charade by delegating its authority over accounting principles back in 1938.
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For the charade to continue, borrowers pretended they could pay and lenders pretended that they would be paid.
Robert DeNiro plays a spin doctor who hires Dustin Hoffman (as a Hollywood producer) to oversee the charade.
It's difficult to get very engaged by the charade of interplay in which these children are supposedly engaged.
But for the two authors of the charade, Filip Remunda and Vit Klusak, it was only the beginning.
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Indeed, by taking part in a democratic charade, the NDF might merely provide a figleaf for the dictatorship.
It exposes the charade playing out in Congress over the war in Iraq.
He was executed by the brutal government of General Sani Abacha after a charade of a trial in 1995.
Perhaps the real political question is how long this catastrophe charade can continue before it's laughed out of town.
Assuming this gesture was not part of the charade, he needn't have bothered.
We engage in charade after charade which legitimize union control of the schools.
The habitual doctoring of books and records, the fictitious trades, the phantom accounts were the core of the charade.
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"This is pretty outrageous, above and beyond the four-year charade that's already occurred, " said Steve Everley of Energy in Depth.
The programme is a charade because the CIA never admits to it and Pakistan pretends that it does not co-operate.
From Lula's perspective, there is no reason to participate in the US charade of preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
Mr Mousavi has also claimed victory, calling the result a "dangerous charade", as his supporters vowed to appeal for a re-run.
After which, the blindfold was to be put back on and the whole charade repeated for the return journey back to the London studio.
Still, the very fact that Mr Ben Ali is going through the charade suggests that he is responding to pressure for change.
At a minimum, it could refuse to go along with the charade that the country is still a democracy with free elections.
Before the vote, Rep. Mike Pence, an Indiana Republican, called the bill "a charade, " denying it would do what its backers claim.
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