Sentence examples for deceiving one another from inspiring English sources

The recent controversy swirling around NBC News anchor Brian Williams prompts a larger question about our motivations for deceiving one another.

Xenophanes Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are disgraceful among mortals, stealing and adulteries and deceiving one another.

Spies are not above deceiving one another, even when they are ostensibly on the same side.

Government officials deceived one another, as well as the public.

Though there is some evidence that they can deceive one another, chimpanzees generally hold nothing back.

Page after page of taped dialogue reveals the rambling, ugly fog of scandal as Nixon and his top aides scramble to deceive one another and save themselves.

People deceive one another for all sorts of reasons: they might lie to stay out of trouble, for example, or to make themselves seem more interesting, or to urge a business deal toward its consummation.

Scott-Young's shows, in which female protagonists regularly break into physical altercations and deceive one another, have drawn controversy for what her critics describe as negative portrayals of black people.

To the contrary, they are highly competitive and willing to deceive one another in pursuit of individual goals [ 5].

Appearances can be deceiving (one of the film's lessons), though, and murder and drug smuggling befoul the air and complicate the narrative.

(Mr. Morrissey was suspended for having wrongfully taken almost a million dollars out of an escrow account belonging to a company he represented and for deceiving one of the firm's executives).