Sentence examples for deceive over from inspiring English sources

In order to hack the network, you would have to deceive over half of these computers at the same time, a progressively more difficult task and, even today, a very formidable one.

The HPC said Mr Brennan's actions were premeditated and designed to deceive over a number of years.

I had absolutely no reason to believe that these authority figures would lie and deceive over such a disaster.

"There are so many things that we've been deceived over," he said, waving toward books on the devastating famine of the late 1950s and early 1960s, an episode that official histories have muffled in euphemisms.

The plaintiffs, two Afghan-born brothers, Jamal and Ajmal Staneckzai, claim he "tricked, defrauded and deceived" them over the 2001 purchase of a house in Fresno, California.

However, environmentalists argue that the plan is feeble, does not close the loophole that allows these vehicles to consume more petrol than cars and would not cut oil imports.The Securities and Exchange Commission brought a civil lawsuit against two former executives of Bristol-Myers Squibb, accusing the pair of concocting a $1.5 billion scheme to deceive investors over the firm's performance.

US banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay $4.5 billion £2.88 billion) to investors over claims it deceived them over bad mortgage investments in the run up to the financial crisis.

The FTC alleged that Snapchat deceived consumers over the amount of personal data it collected and the security measures taken to protect that data.

But yesterday he highlighted how the army had deceived him over the existence of important documents that he received only a few months ago.

Berlin's letters cover the permissive society and the admission by John Profumo, the Tory secretary of state for war under Macmillan, that he had deceived parliament over his relationship with Christine Keeler, which helped to bring down Macmillan's government.

Volkswagen, for decades the ultimate symbol of lean, beautifully engineered German industry, is a byword for shoddy corporate practices since it admitted to deceiving regulators over emissions from its diesel cars.