| He said the police initiative did not appear to be window dressing and the chamber felt it was a serious move to clamp down on crime. |
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| Some poets in Tottel's text did employ religious vocabulary as rhetorical window dressing. |
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| Tell him of your down-the-line fears and your wish not to be window dressing, if that's what he has in mind. |
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| The general formula is middle-of-the-road songwriting layered with U2 inspired bloat and some alternative or indie-rock window dressing. |
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| It would be easy to conclude that his politics were merely window dressing for mayhem. |
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| If only consultative, the lay voice will remain mostly window dressing for clerical decision makers. |
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| My impression of Xena from the TV days was of a frivolous show with attractive window dressing. |
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| However, these vast Roman vistas are processed through the Rococo penchant for grandiose ornamentation and are window dressing, pure decoration. |
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| Or was it, as his rivals claim, merely window dressing designed to conceal as well as reveal? |
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| While harnessing wind energy and burning willow coppice may seem good ideas, in reality it is not much more than green window dressing. |
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| Superficially, there may appear to be a change but it takes more than window dressing to affect real change. |
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| Many faculty see shared governance as window dressing for rather dictatorial rule. |
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| When all the facts came out, though, those contributions were revealed as little more than window dressing, an early ante up for the real bribery and pay-offs. |
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| Colombia is another case of blatant violation of workers' rights, despite the window dressing of official enshrinement of ILO conventions. |
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| In the final quarter of the year, more investors might be lured into the market, partly due to window dressing. |
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| It is not only a matter a window dressing intended for the benefit of competitions. |
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| They wondered whether the interest in employment equity was real or whether it was just more window dressing. |
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| Unless supported by some form of accountability, human rights run the risk of becoming mere window dressing. |
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| One person suggested such initiatives are window dressing and do not make much difference to policy and funding decisions. |
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| But as enjoyable as this sort of literary trainspotting can be, I also consider it window dressing. |
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| Adding to the excitement and jostling are new shopping malls and arcades enhancing the mood what with dazzling illuminations and eye-catching window dressing. |
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| And it was in the same decade that the idea of window dressing as a career first intrigued Hoey. |
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| Has The Walking Dead become a parable about the sanctity of all life, hidden behind the window dressing of a horror story? |
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| Gone are the days when democracy was a window dressing for an oligarchy. |
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| Curtains are becoming more simple and swags and tails, while the classic window dressing, now look a little incongruous and dated in a modern house. |
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| It may be a house of cards or window dressing to those of us who understand security, but the vast majority of the population does not understand security. |
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| The big question is: will the 2000 budget really make a difference in the lives of families with children or will it be little more than window dressing? |
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| Therefore, absent a sham or window dressing or similar vitiating circumstances, courts should not be concerned with the sufficiency of the income expected or received. |
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| Curtain finials complete your window dressing and make it even more playful and personal. |
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| The funds provided for in the budget to recognize foreign credentials are little more than window dressing and are unlikely to help immigrants access jobs or combat racism. |
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| We all know these commissions are only window dressing. |
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| Fotoprix, believes the best way to meet this commitment to customers is through continuous training of its franchisees through seminars on sales techniques, window dressing and management techniques. |
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| Some of them are for window dressing, imposed by donors. |
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| It is window dressing because in true transparency, the government never said without question that it would apply a third here, a third there and another third there. |
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| The focus of the case will shift to historical, sociological or psychological claims that are simply window dressing for more basic assertions about the dangerous or dishonest nature of the members of certain groups. |
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| By refusing to speak out on the country's political situation, Total may be censured in much the same way as the Myanmar regime, and its humanitarian program may be perceived as mere window dressing. |
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| They're window-dressing, yes, but important window dressing. |
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| But if free trade becomes the guiding principle, these goals will become nothing more than window dressing, and a handful of wealthy people will once again be the ones to benefit. |
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