Sentence examples similar to a deceptive term from inspiring English sources

If the gun lobby is allowed to define the gun debate on its own deceptive terms, we face a future in which death and injury from gunfire will continue as part of the American landscape for as far as the eye can see.

Let's take a look at some of the more deceptive terms you might see inside of -- and even on -- the envelopes you find in your mail box.

They are intended to ensure consumers don't receive home loans with deceptive terms or onerous debt burdens.

Like the president, Mr. Dodd supports the creation of a new consumer financial protection agency to both write and enforce new rules protecting households from credit cards and mortgages with abusive or deceptive terms.

Critics have attacked the sales practices at Associates, which is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department, as epitomizing "predatory" tactics that strip away the equity in homes of unsophisticated borrowers by making loans with deceptive terms and fees.

They were misled by deceptive terms and conditions, buried deep in the fine print.

They cloak their assault in deceptive terms such as "right-to-work," and their divide-and-conquer tactics exploit the frustrations of citizens still reeling from an economic crisis that threatened jobs and retirement security.

The "peace negotiations" were a deceptive farce whereby biased terms were unilaterally imposed by Israel and systematically endorsed by the US and EU.

About lying in music: A "deceptive cadence" is just a term for an unexpected turn that finds its proper resolution just a bit later.

The term "new media art" is a bit a deceptive.

In the deceptive condition, subjects were required to make a deceptive judgment about the pictures and give response opposite to the truth.