Unlike the king, who had been given time to prepare a defence, the queen's trial was far more of a sham, considering the time she was given ( less than one day ).

This study concluded that "... daily left prefrontal TMS as monotherapy produced significant and clinically meaningful antidepressant therapeutic effects greater than sham ..." A follow-on open-label extension study for the NIMH-sponsored trial reported similar outcomes to those observed in the company sponsored open-label study.

The U. S. criticized the act as a " sham trial " and has since worked towards the release of the two journalists.

A meta-analysis of eight randomly controlled trial studies assessing the efficacy of CES on anxiety found that CES improved anxiety significantly as compared with placebo / sham treatment.

In a trial that was " dismissed as a sham by the victims ' families and international human rights organisations ", three intelligence ministry agents were sentenced in 2001 to death and twelve others to prison terms for murdering two of the victims.

* In a multicenter, prospective double-blinded randomized controlled trial ( RCT ) involving 131 participants who were patients with one or two painful osteoporotic vertebral fractures, vertebroplasty did not result in greater improvement than a sham procedure in overall pain, physical functioning, or quality of life at 3 or 6 months after treatment.

* In a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial involving 78 participants with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures, patients who underwent vertebroplasty had improvements in pain and disability measures that were similar to those in patients who underwent a sham procedure.

Neither of these reviews included the results of his own rigorously conducted randomized trial of neurofeedback against sham feedback reported at a recent scientific meeting that found no benefits of biofeedback compared to the sham control condition.

A Federal judge described as " a sham " the defendant's 1924 trial in which a vengeful prosecutor withheld vital evidence.

* Acupuncture may help chronic pain ; however, a more recent randomized controlled trial suggested insignificant difference between real and sham acupuncture.

McNamara reveals to Hart that the " defense ", like the trial itself, is a sham, an elaborate distraction to hide a planned escape and attack on a nearby ammunition plant which the Allies mistakenly believe to be a shoe factory.

Even though the trial was a total sham, all but three of the present magistrates had given Gorton the death sentence, though a majority of the deputies refused to sanction such a sentence.

Saleh Majali, the father of the man sentenced to death, angrily stated that the whole trial was a " sham ", with no respect to human rights.

Notwithstanding the newspaper's support for democracy, human rights, and free speech in South Korea, in June 2009, the Hankyoreh described the arrest and imprisonment of two US journalists in North Korea, condemned by Reporters Without Borders as a sham trial, as a " not entirely negative signal " of North Korea's openness to communicate.

The Shem chapter consists of " Shaun's character assassination of his brother Shem ", describing the hermetic artist as a forger and a " sham ", before " Shem is protected by his mother, who appears at the end to come and defend her son.

However, before that happened, her mother, the Princess, clinging to any thread that offered some hope for a cure, came under the spell of Greet Hofmans, a faith healer with heterodox beliefs, who was considered by " her many detractors " to be a sham.

In July 2006, one week before creditors would vote if they should file for bankruptcy, Steven Theede resigned his function because he believed the outcome of this vote was already fixed and therefore this meeting would qualify as a " sham ".

The second was in 2002 on Adam Cole's Key 103 afternoon show, where, as Cosmic Dave, Walker took on the persona of a sham psychic and spiritualist, who physically abused his oompa-loompa assistant and fluffed even basic attempts at reading the minds of listeners and the host, before eventually being tracked down to his ' deep secret underground bureau ' by the Oompa Loompa Protection Front and apparently dying.

In August 2006, Johnson was asked to testify before a Senate panel about his participation in a sham tax shelter.

Store manager Grover ( Douglas Dumbrille ) wants to kill Rogers before he can sell his share, seduce Martha into a sham marriage, then kill her to become sole owner.

Realizing that it was only a matter of time before the city fell, and fearing vengeance and looting if the city fell to the Filipinos, Governor Augustín had suggested to Dewey that the city be surrendered to the Americans after a sham battle.

Common tap steps include the shuffle, shuffle ball change, flap, flap heel, cramproll, buffalo, Maxi Ford, single and double pullbacks, wings, Cincinnati, the shim sham shimmy ( also called the Lindy ), Irish, Waltz Clog, the paddle roll, the paradiddle, stomp, brushes, scuffs, riffs, and single and double toe punches, hot steps, heel clicks, single, double, and triple time steps, over-the-tops, military time step, New Yorkers, and chugs.

According to the 1967 constitution, Presidents were at that time elected by both Houses of Congress in joint session, with representatives of all State Legislatures ; this was widely recognised as a mere sham as, since the March 1964 coup d ' état, each " elected " President had been a retired general chosen in a closed military caucus.

On 13 May 2005, Bainimarama spoke out against the proposal, calling it " Reconciliation bull " and vowing that he and the military would oppose the legislation, which detractors say is a sham to grant amnesty to supporters of the present government who played roles in the coup.

This Hibernian Brigadoon was a sham, a mockery, a Shamrockery of real Ireland and a remarkable exhibition of plastic paddyness.

He began by revealing that his pose as fool was a sham designed to protect him against an evil king.

A 2003 meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials found that spinal manipulation was " more effective than sham therapy but was no more or less effective than general practitioner care, analgesics, physical therapy, exercise, or back school " in the treatment of low back pain.

Therefore the title ' Head of the Commonwealth ', the third major change, was " essentially a sham.

Jagiello's baptism failed to end the crusade of the Teutonic Knights, who claimed his conversion was a sham, perhaps even a heresy, and renewed their incursions on the pretext that pagans remained in Lithuania.

The Fox network's subsequent apology was labeled a " sham " by PTC president L. Brent Bozell III, who argued that Fox could have easily used audio delay to edit out the obscene language.

Although he realizes his previous existence was a sham, he also despises the ugly, bland, and generally inadequate nature of the " real " world.

Between Thomas and Gaiman, the character's existence was revealed to be a sham created by two nightmares who had escaped to a pocket of the Dreaming, who would later attempt this again on Sanderson Hawkins, sidekick to Wesley Dodds, the Golden Age Sandman ( who himself made several appearances in the Gaiman series ).

Thiệu then passed legislation to restrict candidacy eligibility for the 1971 election, banning almost all would-be opponents, while the rest withdrew as it was obvious that the poll would be a sham ; Thiệu won more than 90 percent of the vote and the election was uncontested, while Kỳ retired from politics.

In 2011, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ( AHRQ ) a division of the Federal Health and Human Services Department issued a comparative effectiveness report which concluded that the strength of evidence was “ High ” for TMS compared to sham treatment for patients who had one or more failures of prior treatment, and that those receiving rTMS were “ more than three times as likely to achieve a depressive response as patients receiving sham procedure .”

Robert Grant, Christian Voice's acting President, stated in a news conference that the Religious Right was a " sham ... controlled by three Catholics and a Jew.

" The Roman constitution ", he wrote, " was a screen and a sham "; Octavian's supposed restoration of the Republic was a pretence on which he had built a monarchy based on personal relationships and the ambition of Rome's political families.

While Cardinal Desmond Connell called her action a " sham " and a " deception ", Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said it was ironic that " the Church was condemning an act of reconciliation and bridge-building between the denominations.

Siegel, who heard the company's actual name was not Clonaid, decided that the Clonaid project was a sham.

His concept of velayat-e-faqih (" guardianship of the jurist "), held that the leading Shia Muslim cleric in society – which Khomeini and his followers believed to be himself – should serve as head of state in order to protect or " guard " Islam and Sharia law from " innovation " and " anti-Islamic laws " passed " by sham parliaments.

A show election, also known as a sham election or rubber stamp election, is an election that is held purely for show, that is, without any significant political purpose.

On the complete volte-face and surrender made by Charles to France in 1670, Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, a Roman Catholic, was entrusted with the first Treaty of Dover of 20 May — which besides providing for the united attack on Holland, included Charles's undertaking to proclaim himself a Catholic and to reintroduce the Roman Catholic faith into England, — while Buckingham was sent to France to carry on the sham negotiations which led to the public treaties of 31 December 1670 and 2 February 1672.

When the Estates-General convened in Versailles on 5 May 1789, however, it became clear that the double representation was something of a sham: voting was to occur " by orders ", which meant that the collective vote of the 578 representatives of the Third Estate would be weighed the same as that of each of the other Estates.

On August 18, 2005, the New York Sun reported that in May 2005, Multicultural Radio Broadcasting filed suit against the owners of Air America Radio, Piquant LLC, for $ 255, 000, alleging that the transfer of assets from Progress Media to Piquant LLC was a " sham " transaction designed specifically to avoid the claims of Air America's creditors.