1. In October 2006, she was denounced in a show trial before hundreds of people.

2. After a brief show trial they were put in solitary confinement in appalling conditions until March this year.

3. She has likened the proceedings to a Stalin-era show trial, and accused Mr Yanukovich of trying to turnUkraineinto a Soviet-style prison camp.

4. In August 1936, the first Moscow show trial of the so-called "Trotskyite–Zinovievite Terrorist Center" was staged in front of an international audience.

5. These are more notional than real, as the farcical second show trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oil boss and a Putin rival, which is taking place on Mr Medvedev's watch, demonstrates.

6. These are more notional than real, as the farcical second show trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oil boss and a Putin rival, which is taking place on Mr Medvedev's watch(Sentencedict.com), demonstrates.

7. ‘But that wrecked show-trial wasn't the only media scheme that ganged Agley in November 2005.’ ‘I should have expected that plan to gang Agley.’ ‘The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft Agley.’ ‘Sometimes we fail simply because we are poor, dumb, fallible, feckless human beings whose best-laid schemes gang aft Agley.’