They cared so much about how their performance reflected on them that they resorted to lying.
Cameron's people this morning resorted to lying, pretending Labour wouldn't debate with the SNP.
She said she had trouble teaching the new math curriculum imposed by the city and had resorted to lying to her superiors, pretending she was using it.
To avoid this sort of "You broke my Internet" issue, even savvier techies like Google's Matt Cutts have resorted to lying clever work arounds.
When Dr. Phil's cameras captured a day in the life of three heroin-addicted sisters, viewers were outraged and shocked by the three women in their 20s who traded sex for drug money, resorted to lying and stealing to get high, and shot up in their parents' home.
-I can only say that I neither attacked Norwegians, nor did I resort to lies or excuses.
When all else fails, some women resort to lying in bed to bring relief.
Most collectors are compensated based on how much money they extract from debtors, which encourages some to resort to lying, threatening and harassing tactics.
He needs to learn and then how to deal with all the forces, pressures and temptations without resorting to lying.
The true skill, the real talent in arguing your side of the case, is knowing how to say things in a certain way to make people "think things" the way you want them to, WITHOUT ever resorting to lying.
At the time, Michael J. Garcia, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, said: "They resorted to lies, tricks and fraud".
