Sentence examples for deception effort from inspiring English sources

"What has been happening in Baquba and Wajihiya specifically has been somewhat of a deception effort," said Maj. Gen. Mark P. Hertling, the commander of American forces in northern Iraq.

On 13 December, she participated in another operation to escort a convoy to North Africa, but the attempt was broken off after a British radio deception effort convinced the Italians that the British fleet was in the area.

Glimmer and Taxable played on the German belief, amplified by Allied deception efforts over the preceding months, that the main invasion force would land in the Calais region.

Compared to its solitary counterpart, self-deception within a collective is both easier to foster and more difficult to escape, being abetted by the self-deceptive efforts of others within the group.

The surfaces of his tales are always deceptions", requiring effort to "detect the embedded secrets".

Some of the company's most brazen deceptions concerned efforts to prevent black-lung disease, a potentially fatal ailment caused by inhaling dust.

Such observations have contributed much to our understanding on evolutionary patterns of floral deception; however, few efforts try to establish the evolutionary process of floral deception, and there is still little knowledge about these [ 17].

What emerged at Enron, as described in the report, was a culture of deception, where every effort was made to manipulate the rules and disguise the truth as part of an effort by executives to falsely pump up earnings and earn millions of dollars for themselves in the process.

They also noted that the bill created definitions that were "unprecedented in consumer protection law," including definitions for knowing deception, "good faith" efforts to comply and "reasonable practices" to avoid violations.

Exploring Iraq in 1994 as an inspector for the United Nations, he helped shatter the wall of deception around Saddam Hussein's effort to construct a germ arsenal.

The archival record reveals the magnitude of a deception that undermined American efforts to avoid bloodshed.