Sentence examples for altering facts from inspiring English sources

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.

"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.

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

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.

I was nervous not only of altering the facts to suit the drama but of even seeming to have altered them.

Fearing that she had lost her creativity, she blamed circumstances while at the same time altering the facts of those circumstances.

What's more, all the characters are morbidly depressed and, if still breathing, seriously considering altering that fact.