They range from inspiring ones like freedom, liberty, and self-reliance, to unspoken and less admirable ones like the right to crush your competitors by any means necessary, the right to deceive consumers out of their hard-earned savings, or the right to indulge in gross overconsumption and meaningless excess at others' expense.
The court heard how he deceived clients out of millions of pounds by presenting himself as a lawyer and using the Italian word avvocato on business cards and documents, despite having no legal qualifications or being registered to work as an advocate in the UK or Italy.
Back in May 2004 I wrote how some letting agents were "deceiving tenants out of huge amounts of cash with myriad charges and fees that verge on the criminal".
Obviously, one should not set out to consciously deceive in a piece of writing that purports to be true.
In a 6-to-0 ruling, the court said that the justice, Joseph S. Alessandro of State Supreme Court in Westchester County, had intentionally strung along his campaign worker and her lawyer "with repeated assurances that he would soon obtain financing to repay the loan," and that he tried to deceive her to get out of doing so.
And of deceiving Fiona — as, of course, he had.
This is how sellers of purple arrange their weighing machines to deceive, by putting the cord out of the true centre, and pouring lead into one arm of the balance, or by employing wood for the side to which they want it to incline taken from the root or from where there is a knot.
We zone out, we chicken out, we deceive.
In the eleven years leading up to the robbery, Boudin had more or less made a profession out of misrepresenting herself, deceiving probably hundreds of people, some to quite serious effect... Some key details of Boudin's account of her role in the crime have been challenged by witnesses.
In the eleven years leading up to the robbery, Boudin had more or less made a profession out of misrepresenting herself, deceiving probably hundreds of people, some to quite serious effect... Some key details of Boudin's account of her role in the crime have been challenged by witnesses..
1961 Guggenheim Sues Pollock Heir Peggy Guggenheim, of Venice, Italy, filed a $122,000 suit today [June 9] against the widow of Jackson Pollock, abstract painter, charging she has been "deceived and defrauded" out of at least 15 Pollock works.
