The US position was a travesty.

The result, historians agree, was a legal travesty.

The same travesty appears to be playing out in Europe.

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

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.

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.