Sentence examples for a major deception from inspiring English sources

The result is a major deception".

It would certainly be a major deception to pretend that pro-Bonaparte feeling in Britain existed on a scale to match the national hostility towards him, especially as late as 1815.

Operation Fortitude included Fortitude North, a misinformation campaign using fake radio traffic to lead the Germans into expecting an attack on Norway, and Fortitude South, a major deception designed to fool the Germans into believing that the landings would take place at Pas de Calais in July.

Operation Fortitude included Fortitude North, a misinformation campaign using fake radio traffic to lead the Germans into expecting an attack on Norway, and Fortitude South, a major deception involving the creation of a fictitious First United States Army Group under Lieutenant General George S. Patton, supposedly located in Kent and Sussex.

As Brantley Foster, a Kansas farm boy who goes to New York determined to make it big, he makes major deception (taking a new name, claiming an empty office and demanding executive perks while working in the mailroom) look innocent and perfectly justified.

The first point to note is that the problem of major deception that arose in the original experiments by Milgram was avoided here – since every participant knew for sure that the Learner was a virtual character, and therefore no one could believe that they were inflicting pain on anyone else.

Cascade was a major success for Clarke; it supported most of the subsequent major deceptions for the remainder of the war (by providing established fictional units) and proved that deception on a grand scale was a realistic strategy.

To maintain uncertainty right up to the last minute, the Allies began one of their major deceptions, Operation Fortitude.

There are two major deceptions in their story.

Families were picnicking on its lawn beside the banks of the Thames; crowds were hanging around Turbine Hall, the museum's cavernous main entrance; and people were clustered inside the galleries, many glued to the video screens of "A Story of Deception," a major exhibition devoted to Francis Alÿs, a Mexico City artist known for politically charged work.

Operation Bertram was a major Second World War deception operation practised by the allied forces in Egypt led by Bernard Montgomery in the months leading up to the Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942.