Sentence examples for deception a from inspiring English sources

He has made deception a career, prosecutors said.

Maybe she'd wanted to protect me, but it felt like an act of deception, a family conspiracy.

This hoverfly takes the deception a stage further and looks exactly like a bumblebee – it even flies like a bumblebee.

Legal systems based on common law traditionally distinguished between theft (taking without consent) and fraud (obtaining with consent through deception), a distinction still preserved in many jurisdictions.

But in the late 16th century, upward mobility was beginning to be possible or at least imaginable, making "deception" a widespread way of life.

In hiding it, the administration contributed to the whole complex of deception, a good part of it illegal until it became public.

"They want you to believe there is a deception of a computer," he said.

Sometimes the atmosphere creates a deception and a false trust because of the surroundings.

Glaxo Smith Kline was fined a few billion dollars for their deception--a fraction of their profit from the drug--and a small penalty to pay for the mass murder of almost 50,000 people.

He thought her attempt to enjoy a life for which she was so obviously unfitted a self-deception, a reproach to himself.

A reviewer once noted that the characters in Alison Lurie's novels engage in "the rational process of self-deception," a phrase that resonated with Steven Haft as he poked around the profiles of his Facebook friends.