| The government's plans to build eco-towns have turned out to be so many Potemkin villages. |
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| The younger brother of the Battleship Potemkin has found a small round in his aging revolutionary magazine and fired it off with great jollity. |
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| It was a Potemkin Village of technology, camera-ready but a long way short of leaving the ground. |
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| Potemkin distillers are going to have all the juice they need for years to come. |
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| The lobbyist-journalist-politician scandal has dynamited the Potemkin village that is Indian journalism. |
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| It may not be a surprise that in such questions it is still Potemkin's homeland which is the largest Potemkin village. |
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| In reality, the situation resembled something closer to a Potemkin village. |
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| The GOP's regressive positions are camouflaged behind a disintegrating Potemkin village of plutocratic marketing and co-opted populist outrage. |
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| He was completely taken in by the Potemkin village of a relief camp the district administration of Mianwali prepared for his visit. |
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| The country seems modern and progressive on first glance, but this is largely a veneer, a Potemkin village of tolerance. |
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| All the experts agree that it is nothing less than a Potemkin village. |
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| Also successful films have been based on Ukrainian people, stories or events, including Battleship Potemkin, Man with a Movie Camera, Everything Is Illuminated. |
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| In its eagerness to attract football fans in the teeth of a global recession, South Africa has been afflicted by a kind of Potemkin village mentality. |
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