All this junk food with a veneer of virtue is enough to turn Michael Jacobson's stomach.
Anti-dumping is a particularly pernicious form of protection, because it lurks beneath a veneer of respectability.
It only assumed a veneer of credibility because it was stamped with the imprimatur of his profession.
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The wonder may be that Lebanon has held together at all, and even maintained a veneer of democracy.
His rejection of any foundational economic principles may have a veneer of humility.
Analysts say that silence allows Israel to maintain a veneer of deniability and eases pressure on enemies to retaliate.
Golkar, which formerly gave a veneer of legitimacy to Indonesia's long-entrenched tyrant, General Suharto, is an organisation famed for infighting.
The cleverness of the Daily Mail is to combine tabloid froth with a veneer of smartness that has been beyond the Express.
It will not work to simply layer a veneer of small business on the existing structure and expect it to have the necessary impact.
But Southerners were careful to give the voting restrictions a veneer of legality, wrote William Everett Henderson, a Wilmington lawyer exiled by the coup.
This mainstreaming of unscientific medicine has leant it a veneer of legitimacy it does not deserve, and has changed the language in real medical texts.
Combined with a veneer of South Side Chicago ruffian that he wears when it serves his purposes, Ellison attains an aura of power and danger.
Labour participation in the coalition is said to give his rightist-religious coalition a veneer of respectability, which is why Mr Netanyahu lavished ministries and deputy ministries on half of Labour's members of parliament.
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The alleged chicanery served to falsify hundreds of millions of dollars in profit and sales to give a veneer of stability and strength to WorldCom, a wobbly amalgam of 70 acquisitions made over 20 years.
And the electoral machinery the U.S. designed in 1946 provided a veneer of democratic process beneath which a handful of families, allied to American investors and addicted to payoffs and kickbacks, controlled Philippine land, economy, and society.
Nowadays, people just jump out of the dark all of a sudden and screech (cheap scare) or creatively disembowel screeching second-string actors (more gross than actually frightening.) Couple that with a veneer of macho stylishness, and you've got yourself a relative facsimile of a motion picture.
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Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, not only won a veneer of bipartisanship with Ms Snowe's vote, but has also crafted a bill that is more moderate than the four other health bills that have already been passed (one by the Senate's health committee, and three by various House committees).
Strategery represented a flimsy veneer of forethought over a largely reactive and often ineffective game-plan.
Yemen's new government and the international community want to add a legal veneer to the handover of power with a referendum scheduled for Feb. 21.
"The comparisons (to Swift Boat) are apt, particularly with the Bain outsourcing of jobs charge because there is a thin veneer of truth to that just as there was a thin coating of truth with the attacks of Kerry not deserving his medals, " Arterton said.
Nearly everything discussed or written is but a thin veneer over the truth.
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The sprouting of fancy shopping centres, yacht marinas and housing developments along Tunisia's breezy coast provided a shiny veneer of prosperity.
Until the last half hour or so, when things finally start to take on a thin veneer of competence, the framing in particular is hilarious.
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An array of vibrant colours and oversized, abstract characters cover Kelburn, bringing a thoroughly modern veneer to the 13th-century building.
The key to success in the luxury-car market seems to be to combine a reliable German motor and a lustrous British veneer.
Birds-eye figure is (surprise) a grain pattern reminiscent of hundreds of small bird's eyes scattered across the face of a board or veneer.
It appeared as if carved out of stone, but in fact was made of vast segments of hot-wire-cut polystyrene with a light beech veneer.
All wood trim elements of the S-Class are painstakingly created by hand from hundreds of individual pieces and have the look and feel of a miniature ship veneer.
"If you've lost a piece of veneer on an Eames piece, take it to someone who knows the task of veneer, " said Don Menveg, an art conservator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, who worked on the installation of the "California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way" exhibit.
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