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Discover LudwigThe phrase "accepting lies" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is willing to believe or tolerate falsehoods or deception.
Example: "In a world filled with misinformation, some people find themselves accepting lies as truth without questioning them."
Alternatives: "believing falsehoods" or "tolerating deception".
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In this theory knowledge has an instrumental character, with the disadvantage of also accepting lies as truth as long as they are useful [18].
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I will never accept lies just because they're easier to digest.
We have made torture a national policy, we have besmirched our good name in the eyes of the world, we have been passive accessories in repealing some of our most cherished liberties, we lie with impunity and we accept lies from our rulers as natural and necessary.
Don't accept lies from your man.
At a council in Rome in November 1078 Gregory himself announced that clerics were not to accept lay investiture and extended and formalized the prohibition in March 1080.
If he accepted lay authority in church government as exerted through the council, his personal influence averted both the subservient Erastianism (the supremacy of lay authority in ecclesiastical matters) of Lutheranism and exhausting conflict, as at Geneva.
Pope Gregory VII (1073 85), however, still accepted lay investiture at the start of his papacy, but his increasing estrangement from King Henry IV (1056 1105/6) over the sovereign's refusal to obey papal commands eventually disrupted the traditional harmony between the two offices.
Among the questions, chief sports writer David Walsh asks whether Armstrong told doctors in 1996 that he had used EPO, human growth hormone, cortisone, steroids and testosterone, whether he intends to return his prize-money, and whether he accepts "lying to the cancer community was the greatest deception of all".
The questions include whether Armstrong, who recovered from testicular cancer, accepts "lying to the cancer community was the greatest deception of all" and if he intends to return the prize money he has won.
We wouldn't need a #MeToo thread if it wasn't for the commonly accepted lie that #MeToo doesn't extend to every woman we know.
And if that means accepting white lies about your pop idols - such as the one that suggests their dance routines are the products of sexual exuberance rather than hours of hard graft - then this has got to be better than the bland, prosaic truth.
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