Sentence examples for attempting to deceive from inspiring English sources

"Readers don't want to be fooled, they don't like the notion that someone is attempting to deceive them".

Should an alchemist be found guilty of attempting to deceive the king, the penalty was execution, and in high gilded style.

"Rather than attempting to deceive the public about teaching's financial rewards, the DfE needs to be addressing the issues that are having a disastrous effect on the profession.

Last May, a federal judge in New York ruled for the author, stopped the publication of the book, and found that Viner's company "was attempting to deceive the public into buying a misrepresented book".

It demands refunds of the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition, and accuses the university of "attempting to deceive and mislead the consuming public" or "at best to obfuscate" students' rights under the law.

Generally, an account will not be removed if, for example, it happens to have the same name as you, includes no Tweets, or makes it clear that it is not affiliated with or actively attempting to deceive and mislead others.

Whereas Orwell in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" targets those who attempt to deceive, Carr targets the people.

Erik Lamela released Christian Eriksen and he attempted to deceive Serigne Mbodji, the last defender, only to be tackled by him.

According to FIFA's Laws of the Game, "attempts to deceive the referee by feigning injury or pretending to have been fouled" are punishable by a yellow card.

The very process of being "panel interviewed," however, produces an artificial environment that may induce defensiveness, suspicion, and even attempts to deceive the interviewer.

NEW YORK — "The insurgent leader … does not attempt to deceive us," Abraham Lincoln said at the end of 1864, speaking of the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis.