Sentence examples for deceitful campaign from inspiring English sources

He said Labor had done so because the government had run a "deceitful campaign" by pretending it would retain the measure.

He said Sir John Major, the former prime minister, was speaking for himself when he said Johnson and Gove posed a danger to the NHS and were running a deceitful campaign "verging on the squalid".

The book portrays powerful vested interests that wage a deceitful campaign in an unnamed state, pouring millions of dollars into successfully electing a Supreme Court justice, who then works to overturn an important lower court environmental ruling.

But I know the donors funding these lying deceitful campaigns are the Wall Street tycoons, Big Oil interests, outsourcers, and others that oppose the progressive agenda in Washington, D.C.

"The latest Christmas ads are nothing short of the most appallingly deceitful and misleading campaign, and the BBC should be utterly ashamed of using licence fee money to persuade people to buy a radio that might not even work".

In an extraordinary attack on his fellow Conservatives, Major produced a withering assessment of leading members of Vote Leave, calling their campaign deceitful, untrue, depressing, awful and "verging on the squalid".

The Vatican has denied that he was at fault, and Vatican officials have variously described the reports as "deceitful," an effort to undermine the church and a "defamatory campaign".

Efforts to boost sales of DAB digital radios this Christmas are descending into farce, with one outspoken critic decrying the switchover plan as "an utter shambles" and the government-backed advertising campaign as "deceitful and misleading".

Yet we tend to be more tolerant of deceitful speech in political campaigns than we are of deceitful speech in advertising or in the courtroom.

ACCURACY The ad's most devastating line - Mr. Obama saying, "If we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose" - is also its most misleading, and has already come under attack from Democrats and Mr. Obama's re-election campaign for being "deceitful and dishonest".

Campaign ads are often deceitful, offensive or infuriating, cynically exploiting religion or families and distorting an opponent's record.