Potemkin village

But there is still a Potemkin village quality about some of our aspirations.

His experience is nothing but a carbon copy of Potemkin village.

In reality, the exhibition was nothing more than a "Potemkin village".

This apparent fiscal health is actually an economic Potemkin village.

But the process has a Potemkin village quality about it, as inevitably a deal is reached with management.

Having no court "is better than a Potemkin village."

"Good thing we didn't stay upstairs in that Potemkin village.

At a cost of some $400 million, they have created something of a Potemkin village.

It's a showpiece, and something of a Potemkin village at that.

This has particularly been the case with the often referred to and little understood 'Potemkin villages'.

As with the term Potemkin village, sea-change has also been used in business culture.

Or is this all a Potemkin village, meant to impress regulators?

When they are staged, they have a Potemkin village quality.

For all this, there is something of a Potemkin village about the Chinese state.

But often these performances seemed to be a musical Potemkin village, all surface and not much underneath.

Did you feel you were getting the Potemkin Village treatment?

"It was a Potemkin village," he said, confirming what the visitors suspected at the time.

Still, the Dora market is a Potemkin village of sorts.

In effect, China has created a Potemkin village of intellectual property protections.

Critics claimed that he created Potemkin village tours for outsiders, but this was far from the truth.

Russia, of course, gave the world the Potemkin Village.

Hong Kong is no Potemkin village, but it also isn't a city on a hill.

These schools, in District 14, were educational Potemkin villages.

Or was it a Potemkin village on a South Pacific island?

Even at the level of a Potemkin village, Pyongyang fails to work anymore.