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An act of deceiving is not an act of deceiving unless a particular result is achieved.
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Davis' final question ponders "How capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling".
Davis' final question in that story ponders "how capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling".
And of deceiving Fiona — as, of course, he had.
And of deceiving Fiona as, of course, he had.
She accused Thai officials of deceiving her and Russian diplomats.
Mr. Eckhardt was a man of deceiving appearance.
A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, called the announcement nothing more than a "symbolic act to deceive the people," and he added that "it won't help resolve the main problem, which is the occupation of Afghanistan by foreign forces".
The women are close, too, so each act of adultery deceives not only a spouse but a friend.
For some, morality also requires charitable actions, but failure to act charitably on every possible occasion does not require justification in the same way that any act of killing, causing pain, deceiving, and breaking promises requires justification.
Often, overweight people shovel food in - they don't taste it, they get the serotonin high we get when our bodies are engaged in survival activity, but the act of shovelling it in again deceives the body into thinking it's in famine mode.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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