Sentence examples for deceive readers from inspiring English sources

It is old-fashioned greed which propels an established author to use fake identities to deceive readers and harm rivals.

At issue were transactions that seem to have been structured to deceive readers of Enron's financial statements.

All popular non-fiction involves a conjuring trick: the art is to deceive readers into thinking they have been told something they can understand.

In particular, if there is a continuing policy to query the State Department about covert matters and, if the government requests, to actively deceive readers to protect covert operations (even illegal ones), I would like to know precisely what the bounds of that policy are.

They're far more prevalent and they do actually deceive readers because they're far more subtle.

In addition, since contributions are anonymous or at any rate not easily trackable, contributors may vandalize pages or actively try to deceive readers by spreading false information.

"The principle is a sound one — you don't want to deceive your readers," he said.

How long, as a matter of policy, is The Times willing to deceive its readers for the sake of national (or an individual's) security?

Your ethical instincts are excellent: it is wrong to deceive the readers, even implicitly, and that's what your editor asked you to do.

If the answer is something other than "as long as the State Department asks," then what are the criteria The Times uses to decide how long to deceive its readers?

These are all important issues, and if The Times really does mean to deceive its readers as little as possible, there is no reason not to spell out explicit guidelines for these issues, articulated and published not by the public editor, but by the main editors who make such decisions.