| Sadly, phoney clinics offer spurious tests which will diagnose allergies in virtually anybody. |
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| So what touchstone can we use to distinguish genuine from phoney forwardists? |
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| Perhaps he can find some money to put towards some genuine tax reform by clamping down on these phoney charities. |
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| But any moment the spell might fail, their eyes would be opened and they would realise I was a fraud, a phoney. |
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| The kulfi in The Wee Curry Shop looks and tastes like bad industrial ice cream with phoney laboratory flavours. |
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| A phoney secret agent and his wife are in custody awaiting sentence for their campaign of terror against a family. |
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| If I had seen the phoney letters, with their Italian stamps and postmarks, I would have concluded that Donald was in Italy. |
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| I'm weary of this phoney controversy and tired of defending the jug-eared nincompoop. |
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| The British are particularly sore at the moment, because they believe the IRA has the upper hand in what is essentially a phoney war. |
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| All loose ends are tied up satisfactorily without feeling forced or phoney. |
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| Companies arranged for competitors not to bid, or to enter phoney higher bids. |
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| These offer a phoney impression of simplicity, reducing complex manifesto policies to a few slogans. |
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| Labour has cooked up this phoney row just to manufacture cheap headlines on the eve of a general election. |
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| We all know this is a phoney parliament, but this demonstrates just how pointless it is. |
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| Mr. Lawrence was a lawyer who issued phoney letters of comfort to the investors knowing the certificates were false. |
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| The offender had run a phoney investment scheme promising fabulous rates of return. |
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| Those income tax reductions are too often phoney promises hidden under calculation adjustments which, ultimately, yield absolutely nothing. |
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| In many cases it also allowed the government to use that phoney surplus to give corporate tax cuts and other tax cuts to other concerns. |
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| It is a perfect illustration of how the government operates: phoney words, phoney promises, no real deeds, no real results. |
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| I will give him an opportunity to redeem himself out of this phoney balanced theme he mentioned. |
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| Responsible Canadians are tired of that phoney, two-faced approach to government. |
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| It adopts no postures of phoney charms to placate its visitors. |
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| From the photograph down, everything was a fraud and a phoney. |
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| The phoney e-card is the latest scam in the eternal battle for online traffic, playing cynically on people's goodwill to bombard them with adverts or promote dubious websites. |
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| The build-up has the atmosphere of a phoney war as the rivals perfect the various practical jokes and wind-ups that will help unsettle their enemy's preparations. |
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| If it were up to national governments, the conversation would remain at this phoney level forever. |
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| I am quite deliberately saying product counterfeiter, rather than refer to a peddler of phoney products, which sounds very harsh. |
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| My vote for the most untranslatable word would go to nyakaa, a Bengali word that could mean coy, or teasing, or bashful, or suggests fake niceness or phoney innocence. |
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| In my province right now, the CCRA of the government is attempting to undermine to a phoney collection system and destroy a junior hockey club. |
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| Who could have failed to see that there were no manufacturer's name or address or ingredients or shelf-life on the packages of the phoney milk powder? |
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| Access to the properties is gained by putting a phoney offer down. |
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| Meanwhile, the government is happy to create phoney committees to study the reasons for the forestry industry crisis. |
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| Warburton says that after months in the waiting, the Welsh players realise the phoney war is over and the real business is about to start. |
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| Mr. Speaker, the Liberal-Conservative coalition has chosen to create a phoney committee on employment insurance that will sit for more than two months while everyone agrees on the course of action. |
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| This Court was not established to be a phoney institution, whose rulings were only respected by those committing minor and sometimes questionable infringements of human rights. |
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| That is another example of the disingenuousness, the phoney promises, that I think hurt the credibility of politics and government in the country and certainly of the Liberal Party. |
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| Would it not be a better idea for the coalition to implement the proposals of this standing committee reached in consensus than to try to save face with a phoney committee? |
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| In the Netherlands, arguably the world leader in phoney disablement, a tougher government line on physical disability has encouraged more folk to claim mental disability. |
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| We have to prove in an effective way what we know to be true: that under the phoney humaneness of collectivism there is a deadly but hidden inhumanity. |
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| Alternatively, the company can be bankrupted by a lawsuit from a phoney creditor, who can then appoint a liquidator of his choice. Lawsuits sometimes offer protection to investors. |
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| Showy piety, legalism and quietism were all abominations, almost as much as the cheap oil and harsh flavours of phoney ethnic food. His own scorecard had some blots. |
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| The election campaign is into its first week, not quite out of the phoney war stage yet, with Thursday's seven-way TV debate promising to be an atonal chorus of evasion and conceit. |
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| Letters from phoney lotteries, prize draws and criminal clairvoyants offering promises of future health and wealth are among those typically hitting people's doormats. |
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| That is just a phoney excuse for not moving on this. |
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| The bill would have gone through the House and we could have had action on this issue instead of all the phoney rhetoric from that side of the House and the phoney promises from the government. |
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| That is how we build unity, not through these phoney programs. |
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| The second is that the Conservatives and Liberals set up a phoney committee to discuss these issues behind closed doors and it is wonderful to finally have a chance to hear the positions of all the parties in the House. |
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| The emails generally ask you to confirm your personal information by clicking on a link to a phoney website where you are asked for personal information such as identifiers or passwords. |
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| This joint project has been timed to coincide with the holiday season, to increase public awareness of this issue and help prevent donations from going to phoney charities. |
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| There is none of that phoney mwah, mwah air-kissing of minor acquaintances. |
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| If the Durham quickie is struggling to cope with a phoney war, how on earth is he going to cope when the real thing starts? |
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| This phoney war must stop, it is now time for the Government to put up or shut up on helping those being unfairly penalised by banks. |
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| Tonight's game is something of a phoney war as both teams are already assured of their places in the last eight of the 20-over competition. |
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| Actor James Doohan, he of the phoney Scots accent, has done the bizzo with his 43-year-old wife, Wende. |
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| Unlike the greaseball politicians with their phoney smiles and even more phoney promises, Tony has the guts to say he was wrong. |
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| They placed phoney satellite navigation devices inside dummy cars and waited for the young thieves to take the bait. |
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| Whether they have built a race-winning car this season remains to be seen as testing is renowned for being a phoney war when times are primarily irrelevant. |
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| The phoney war now over, manager Tom Wade is confi-dent his side can build on last season's sterling efforts when the real action gets under way this weekend. |
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| A good jeweler should be able to tell a real stone from a phoney one. |
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