Sentence examples for by deceitful from inspiring English sources

Obviously, members of Congress cannot exercise any actual oversight over programs which are being concealed by deceitful national security officials.

However, nothing has undone the harm caused to families unnecessarily by deceitful and unethical adoption practices.

In the past, people of color and the poor were methodically driven from voting by deceitful measures like a 'poll tax.' The calculated and dangerous tactics at play now are just as troubling, if not more, to our fundamental democratic principles and the notion of free and fair elections.

In 1980, Mr. Mallah was killed by some deceitful followers, and Ms. Devi was taken by force to Behmai.

Le Carré's "old traitors," he wrote, "betray the state because they are, by nature, deceitful.

Nation states should free themselves from the voluntary shackles offered by cynical, deceitful, anti-democratic, sneering control freaks.

In Lukas Moodysson's devastating 2002 film, "Lilya 4-Ever," a teenage girl in Estonia is tricked by a deceitful boyfriend into sex slavery in Sweden.

Fans of The Wasp Factory will also notice echoes of that novel: both feature a strange teenage narrator kept in an isolated house by a deceitful father figure.

For that fool of a boy had not been doomed by the deceitful power of comic books, which after all were only bundles of paper, staples, and ink, and couldn't hurt anybody.

The government said Friday that the recent Ethiopian attack inside Eritrea was "provocative" but that Eritrea "will not be entrapped by such deceitful ploys," signaling a possible easing of tensions.

"I sit here today and look back at my life, and it seems like we're back where we were 40 years ago," mired in a war waged by a deceitful administration, he said.