Anyone is capable of lying, and even a convicted felon may be capable of telling some truths.
If these men were capable of lying to protect the church, might they not also be capable of lying to destroy it?
Kryuchkov seemed perfectly capable of lying with a serene sense of self-possession and righteousness.
I wasn't angry at the deception – I already knew my parents were capable of lying to me.
She is capable of lying and cheating as well as eliciting the sympathy of the reader," wrote 14-year-old Gabbi Freemantle.
They might not have seen that their government was capable of lying to them, that their president – whose office has near-sacred status in the United States – was quite ready to abuse his power, to trample on the constitution and to have his aides engage in the most sordid of crimes, from breaking and entering to money laundering.
After all, the English legal system is founded not on the assumption that everybody will behave with decency and restraint but on the rather more reliable conviction that most people, including the police, are capable of lying and may do so if it is to their advantage.
Or maybe it is because of the proliferation of personal trainers, gyms and fitness centers, where once there was but the local Y.M.C.A., and specialists capable of discussing in lay terms arcana like metabolic enzymes, hip adduction and glycemic indexes.
We used the Composite International Diagnostic Interview [ 19], because it is a structured diagnostic interview for use by lay interviewers, capable of giving DSM/ICD life-time diagnoses for mental disorders.
As White demonstrates, he acquired credibility as his pursuers lost theirs: Joseph McCarthy, Vietnam and Watergate proved the government capable of vicious lying and exposed the corruption of Hiss's initial prosecutors, most notably a young congressman, Richard M. Nixon.
