Abacha's regime has been severely criticized by critics and human rights organizations, which says it holds opponents without trial, tortures them and trumps up charges against them.
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Suppose they really were involved and that one of them knew a friendly hometown DA who would trump up a trial that blamed the CIA and a colorful gang of New Orleans characters.
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The gun lobby trumps up images of fear in the face of statistics that show that gun ownership itself puts people at much higher risk of being killed _ by their own weapon.
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A judge sentenced Karel Vas, 85, to seven years in prison after a court found him guilty of helping trump up espionage charges against a general who opposed the communist regime.
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No such luck : the news division managed to trump up yet another " breaking news " event, this time in the form of a speech by President-elect Bush.
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"The U . S . administration and Britain have in the past and continue to attempt to trump up facts and evidence pointing to Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction.
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Among his own investigators, these goals stirred concern that they would be forced to search for far more misdeeds than might exist, waste their time on trivia and be pressed to trump up cases.
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On three of his four shows ( a guest host handled Friday ), O'Reilly tried to trump up controversy by finding cases in which Islam seemed to intrude on his idea of American life.
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Last Thursday night's premiere featured the usual elements of a first episode of " Survivor " : Host Jeff Probst trumps up the inherent dangers of living in an environment manipulated by Mark Burnett.
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In a campaign that is expected to stretch to a runoff vote on Nov . 15, da Silva has a trump up the sleeve of his union shirt : the endorsement of Romario, Brazil's star striker.
