The US position was a travesty.

The result, historians agree, was a legal travesty.

And their marriage, under these circumstances, is a travesty.

The same travesty appears to be playing out in Europe.

The defense is being permitted to reenact... what was a travesty of justice in the first place.

Because it's a travesty that someone who still has all of that in him isn't able to communicate it.

Growing inequality, combined with a flawed system of campaign finance, risks turning America s legal system into a travesty of justice.

He'd call out terrorism for what it is, not only criminal but an obscene travesty of everything he believed in and struggled for.

He'd call out terrorism for what it is, not only criminal but an obscene travesty of everything he believed in and struggled for.

The global spread and reach of nuclear weapons reduce to a travesty the objective of achieving genuine peace and security within a narrow regional framework.

The lives of those people had become a metaphor, as well as a reality, of misery and injustice, in which the concept of home was a travesty.

The hearing at which he appeared was apparently a travesty, and his case was reportedly perceived as an example of abuse in the conduct of oral proceedings.

Anyway, that completely unselfish and fruitful travesty of logic is dressed up as a total absence of national ambition and as total concern for the welfare of the general membership.

The Pussy Riot trial was, of course, a travesty of justice, with the prosecution quoting the canons of the Quinisext Council, which took place in Constantinople in 692, under Byzantine Emperor Justinian II.

It appears, therefore, that the reduction of Xanana Gusmão apos s prison term from life imprisonment to 20 years was an inappropriate response by Indonesian authorities to harsh international criticism over a trial considered to be a travesty of justice.

Thus, the situation in Bosnia can be summed up as constituting a clear contravention of basic principles of the United Nations Charter, a travesty of justice and abject surrender of the notion of the primacy of law over the use of force.

I wonder how those who shed crocodile tears for the so called violation of freedom of expression can justify their support for this travesty of all norms and rules of ethics and decency and this flagrant abuse of the principle of freedom of expression.

Thus, what only a few months ago had looked from Washington like a successful transition to some sort of representative government is obviously a travesty just as under Saddam, power today grows out of the barrel of the gun only now the state does not hold a monopoly on the means of violence.