Sentence examples for alter facts from inspiring English sources

"I can't tell a lie even for art, apparently," Bishop wrote to him in 1962; "it takes an awful effort or a sudden jolt to make me alter facts".

This is a contract that should not be broken lightly and why I have disagreed with writers of memoir (in particular) who happily alter facts to suit their narrative purposes.

Such progress, they believe, will be possible only if Netanyahu curbs the settlements, which Palestinians and the larger Arab world see as part of an ongoing effort to alter "facts on the ground" to preclude a two-state solution.

Although a drawing reflects a cartoonist's judgment and point of view and the visual commentary often exaggerates circumstances, responsible editorial standards do not allow the artist to alter facts.

Ari Fleischer, a spokesman for the Bush campaign, said that the vigor that the Bush campaign was bringing to the rebuttal of Mr. Gore's charges about the Texas budget was an offensive of its own, aimed at showing voters how readily Mr. Gore would alter facts to tear down his opponent.

They try to twist and alter facts so that we may not get a clear picture of reality.

Diedrich Knickerbocker, the putative narrator, begins with a mock-pedantic cosmogony and proceeds to a history of New Netherlands, often ignoring or altering facts.

Yet today power and fortunes are gained precisely by altering facts and evidence.

A new examination found, by comparing the reported diagnoses in the paper to hospital records, that Wakefield and colleagues altered facts about patients in their study.

They alter the facts to fit the views - which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering".

Especially since a novel is likely to alter crucial facts and remove key details.