Sentence examples for deception and it from inspiring English sources

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Take, for example (from the 1910 translation by Lionel Giles, the first authoritative one in English): "The best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good"; "all warfare is based on deception"; and "it is the business of the general to be still and inscrutable, to be upright and impartial".

Brown said Iran was guilty of "serial deception" and it was time for the international community to draw a line in the sand.

In the Mount Vernon version, the threat is "change": change is "an empty promise" and "a dangerous deception," and it comes from the American people — that is, from those of us who are to be found in the nation's universities and the federal government.

Like the battle over the Brooke Astor estate — minus $100 million or so, but still worth plenty, thanks to the popularity of CBGB T-shirts — the case is filled with accusations of fraud and deception, and it adds a bitter coda to the story of a beloved New York institution.

APSCU includes ITT, EDMC, Kaplan, Corinthian, Bridgepoint, DeVry, Globe and other companies now accused of fraud and deception, and it has harbored egregious abusers like FastTrain College and ATI up until they've been shut down by authorities for systematic fraud.

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"In order to recognise [Montaigne's] true worth," Zweig explains at the beginning of the work, "you should not be too young, too deprived of experience and life's deceptions, and it is precisely a generation like ours, cast by fate into the cataract of the world's turmoil, to whom the freedom and consistency of his thought conveys the most precious aid".

Which means no privacy-hostile defaults: So opt ins, not opt outs, and consent that is freely given because it's based on genuine information not self-serving deception, and because it can also always be revoked at will.

In this murky world of hidden identities, deception and secrets, it is good to have a book as level-headed as this one, based on thorough research.

Cloaked in deception and secrecy, it has earned prominence on lists of moral prohibitions and is understood as more than a sin; in divorce courts it is a crime.

Do you realize all that you might achieve if you took the energy that you spend on deception and put it into achieving something positive and meaningful in this world?

The tragedy is that our leaders, keenly aware of the deception and how it sows division amongst the people, allow the outrage industry to craft such hate speech in the first place.

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