Sentence examples for because a small lie from inspiring English sources

Mr Kolesov said he could not take part in such a trial, because a small lie leads to a bigger one.After a few days of tense silence, the court reopened the case to the public.

It was only a small lie, but God drew the people together and said: "Because someone lied, I'm going to drop a grain of sand on the world".

"It starts with a small lie," he said.

A small lie wouldn't have done any harm.

A small lie could've bought us an upgrade, but that would've been no pilgrimage.

Because a small part of the constellation lies to the south of the celestial equator, this can not be a completely circumpolar constellation at any latitude.

In his 1925 tract, "Mein Kampf," he wrote that "the broad masses" are more likely to "fall victims to the big lie than the small lie," because "It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously".

This statistical glitch is different from the Bradley Effect, named for the black mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley, who lost the California governorship in 1982 despite polls that had showed him in the lead, apparently because a small percentage of respondents would rather lie to a pollster than admit to opposing a candidate on the ground of his race.

"In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie".

A small boy lay motionless on the pavement beside him.

She remembers, as she fled, seeing a small girl lying in a pool of water, unconscious.