Sentence examples for deceived on from inspiring English sources

FitzRalph makes a distinction between a prophesy through which people are deceived, on the one hand, and lying on the other; thus a person may be deceived by the prophesy and yet God did not lie to them.

Jim Sysko, a deputy state attorney general, says he accepted Chase's contention it was deceived on the rent payments, but was weighing the bank's overall role when Chase offered to help the buyers by reducing their mortgages.

— Muhammad returned to the mountain and came down, abashed, to state that he had been deceived on his previous visit: the Devil had appeared to him in the guise of the Archangel, and the verses he had been given were therefore not divine but satanic and should be expunged from the Koran at once.

Bulky yet easily swayed, he is spouting hip-hop in a St Petersburg nightspot when he hears of his father's murder, and soon sets off on a surreal journey from Russia's moneyed playground to the forgotten foothills of a former Soviet republic, being battered, rejected, recruited and deceived on his way.

At a later point was it days or weeks, or months?—Muhammad returned to the mountain and came down, abashed, to state that he had been deceived on his previous visit: the Devil had appeared to him in the guise of the Archangel, and the verses he had been given were therefore not divine but satanic and should be expunged from the Koran at once.

The script was all too familiar as Wales flattered to deceive on an evening when the 14,061 spectators will have departed questioning whether anything has changed since John Toshack stepped down.

Ibrahimovic's virtuoso display provided an emphatic response to those who claim he flatters to deceive on the big stage.

Despite a perceived fearsome reputation the USSR flattered to deceive on the world stage and, akin to England, enjoyed their best tournament in 1966 when they finished fourth.

"If she's smart enough to lie & deceive on FB to get attention she should be smart enough to apologise & admit her wrong" said Ifetola Fadeyibi from Nigeria.

When Fernando Alonso was fastest in first practice on Friday and then second to Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes in the second session, the suspicion was Ferrari were flattering to deceive on new team boss Marco Mattiacci's first day at work.

This skipping of meals, hiding, lying and deceiving went on throughout the rest of primary school and into secondary, where it was even easier to hide.