Sentence examples for attempt to deceive a from inspiring English sources

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For United, Adnan Januzaj looked eager to impress, even if he let himself down with his latest attempt to deceive a referee inside the penalty area.

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At about the same time the Campbeltown raised the German naval ensign in an attempt to deceive any German lookouts into thinking she was a German destroyer.

Her scene with Diomedes that Troilus witnesses is her attempt "to deceive deceivers".

It was hard, after it, to see Norwich gaining anything from a game in which they had worked hard but been able to create little, and their loss might have been heavier but for Bunn, who made good second-half saves from Victor Moses – who also shot just wide after bringing down a cross superbly on his chest – and from Mata's attempt to deceive him with a quickly-taken free-kick.

A spokesman for just plain Ron Estes called the challenge an "attempt to deceive Kansas voters" in a statement to the Eagle in May.

Because of a cosmic rift in the heavenly sphere prior to the creation of the world or the announcement of the revelation, angels, depending on their relationship to the Creator, might attempt to deceive man with a false revelation or to reveal the truth about man's true nature (or identity), origin, and destiny.

He is pretending to attempt to deceive him with a double bluff, in order to actually attempt to deceive him with a triple bluff.

The grade inflation was less an attempt to deceive, the authors concluded, than a reflection of healthy overconfidence and a statement of aspirations.

Other forms of intended deception that are not lies do not attempt to deceive "by way of a trust invoked through an open sincerity" (Simpson 1992, 626).

In a letter today to the CEO of low cost carrier Spirit Airlines, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) says the airline is engaged in a "deliberate attempt to deceive the flying public about a new Department of Transportation DOTT) rule that will improve the transparency of airfares for consumers".

Whether this was a deliberate attempt to deceive or not, the National Academies of Science Council issued a statement clarifying "the manuscript has nothing to do with the National Academy of Sciences".

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