Sentence examples for ability to deceive from inspiring English sources

Insuring that your ability to deceive kept pace with their ability to see through you.

If intelligence includes the ability to deceive, then further evidence of that proposition has just been published by Culum Brown and his colleagues at the University of Sydney, in Biology Letters.

He ranks fifth among bowlers in test matches and No. 1 in both one-day internationals and Twenty20, and draws on a mix of control and exceptional ability to deceive the batsman.

In the enigmatically repetitive portraits he has been producing since the 1970's -- especially of the interiors of ornate movie theaters and of sea and sky -- he compounds the camera's ability to deceive.

In it she concealed as much as she explained about her motives for cross-dressing, but Shevelow concludes that she was most at home in a world where artifice was valued for its ability to deceive and delight.

Alex Fishman, a military affairs analyst at the newspaper Yediot Aharonot, wrote, "The Iranians ought to be worried by Israel's ability to deceive and achieve surprise at such a vast distance from home — if it was Israel that carried out the attack".

Several studies have revealed the ability of SLNs to deceive P-glycoprotein (P-gp) pump and reduce efflux by this molecule [20].

The conversational or testimonial practice is robustly maintained despite wide variation in circumstances and vulnerability to misunderstandings, as well as to speakers' hasty or ill informed judgments and their ability to lie, deceive, and mislead.

This indicates that the patients' impaired ability to lie cannot be attributable to forgetting who to deceive.

Thus, the decision to deceive has to take into account the ability to manage one's own reputation.

A revealing series of interviews with 17 fraudsters and corrupt officials has shown there are a wide range of paths to corruption, from naked greed to grooming, but perpetrators tend to share a capacity for impulsiveness, glibness and a heightened ability to manipulate and deceive to get what they want.