Might those students have been "Potemkin" protesters?.    From Wordnik.com.  ["It is my honour to burn for the sake of the nation's ideals and defend the system."] Reference

EU Referendum: President "Potemkin" Putin skip to main | skip to sidebar.    From Wordnik.com.  [President "Potemkin" Putin] Reference

Instead, the head of the pollution monitoring center said Beijing had relied instead on another kind of Potemkin pollution solution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Pasternack: How Beijing Cleans Its Air (and Fakes It Too)] Reference

Recovery Summer - LOL - Is Biden's middle name "Potemkin"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

In hindsight, it was all too noticeably "Potemkin" and vulnerable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia Blog] Reference

One of the best matches is found in the chapter of "Potemkin" that introduces the peasants.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The imagery in "Potemkin" is designed to bypass the intellect and head straight to the outrage bone.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It was just that no one actually participated in it, and so it was sort of this kind of Potemkin village.    From Wordnik.com.  [doggdot.us] Reference

Putin may well be happy with his Potemkin military.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollow Tipped Threat] Reference

And that fits his Potemkin candidate profile perfectly.    From Wordnik.com.  [New McCain Ad Slices And Dices Obama Quote To Falsely Suggest Obama Echoed McCain] Reference

Third, Kyoto is nothing but a Potemkin Village of a treaty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy Hour Roundup] Reference

Potemkin, a first-class battleship of the Black Sea squadron.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Russia] Reference

It really came across as kind of a Potemkin (ph) village exercise.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2007] Reference

It would ruin the fictional narrative about your Potemkin candidate.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Urges Action, But Insists On Improvements To Bailout Package] Reference

McCain is talking to the American people, not the Potemkin candidate.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Obama Ad Sketches His American Story] Reference

Did we not recognize the incompetence of Hamid Karzai's Potemkin army?.    From Wordnik.com.  [John R. MacArthur: Of the IRA and the Afghan War] Reference

The Potemkin Chancellor might be found out now that he is Prime Minister.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...] Reference

The problem, Davis came to feel, was that Turner is living in Potemkin village.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Paramount] Reference

Behind the Potemkin façades of spruced-up St. Petersburg, the view is unsettling.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Wrong with Russia] Reference

As it is, my quick research shows "Team Hillary" looks a lot like a Potemkin village.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Politics is Local, Or is It?] Reference

We might also be critical about the Potemkin Village-ish spectacle the city is putting on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Pasternack: Please Let Nothing Bad Happen] Reference

As Andrea Mitchell of NBC News said, it was “the Potemkin village of victory celebrations.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Wins Maine By Large Margin, Signaling Dark Stretch Ahead For Hillary Camp] Reference

Panicked, surrounded by Potemkin houses, he folds himself inside the lead-lined cavity of a refrigerator.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Jump the Shark,’ Meet ‘Nuke the Fridge’] Reference

It was a Potemkin policy, a measure which claims to protect consumers but actually does the exact opposite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Consumer Protection: Progressive Momentum and Forbidden Love] Reference

Rodina picked up 9.7 percent of the vote -- transforming it from a Potemkin opposition party into a genuine threat.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of Hate] Reference

Needless to say, I regard seating the delegates coming out of the Potemkin elections in the two states to be a bad joke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Florida And Michigan Governors Demand Seating Of Delegates] Reference

But in the great Potemkin tradition, Russia's "reformers" were perpetrating grandiose fraud in the name of privatization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Potemkin Prosperity] Reference

Lyndon Johnson's Model Cities program, so confidently proclaimed in 1966, seems now to have built only Potemkin villages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price Of Neglect] Reference

The result is a modern Potemkin village -- splashy riverfront development backed by a shell that was once downtown Detroit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desperation In Detroit] Reference

The summit was a Potemkin village that ignored the far more immediate crisis of 45 million Americans without health-care coverage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: Undercovered] Reference

Going by the Milbank Article from last week, I'd say she's in as long as the media is willing to perpetuate the Potemkin Candidacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two New Polls Put Obama Way Ahead In Oregon] Reference

Up to now, the EU's own regular meetings with Russia have achieved little: Mr. Leonard of the ECFR called it "a Potemkin dialogue.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Weakened Russia Seeks European Ties] Reference

Theresienstadt was a Potemkin village, designed to give the Red Cross and the world the impression that Jews were being well treated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeleine M. Kunin: Verdi's Requiem] Reference

But other parts of it were carefully staged, a German Potemkin Village movie honed for propaganda and construed to discredit the Jews.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Z. Chesnoff: "A Film Unfinished"; The Warsaw Ghetto As Seen Through Nazi Eyes] Reference