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window-dressing
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The consultation process appeared to the public as little more than a piece of window dressing for a decision which to all intents and purposes had already been taken.
Post Office talks a "sham" by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
LDP leader Jovan Manasievski assessed that the proposed Budget revision is just window dressing aimed at creating the impression that the Government is taking measures.
Opposition criticizes budget revision by INFOMAC Daily News Service
The former Europe Minister later accused Gordon Brown of having a two-tier Cabinet and of using women as window dressing - a claim ridiculed after the glamorous MP posed in a glossy magazine photo shoot.
'Caroline is very ambitious and she went off in a huff' SHORT ON FLINT by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
 
 
 
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