Sentence examples for deceptive commercial from inspiring English sources

The Federal Trade Commission has taken up some of these cases in its role as a monitor of fraudulent or deceptive commercial practices.

A French court has convicted and fined Uber and two of its executives for deceptive commercial practices and illegal business activity over its lowest-cost ride service.

More than 200 UberPop drivers have been fined under fast-track procedures in France, and the company has already been convicted of deceptive commercial practices and fined some $170,000 over UberPop by a Paris court.

As the nation's consumer protection and competition regulator, the FTC must respond to this dynamic marketplace and advise business leaders on what practices are legitimate and what constitutes unfair or deceptive commercial activity.

The Paris criminal court ordered US-based Uber to pay 800,000 euros ($900,000), half of it suspended, and imposed smaller fines on Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, head of Europe, Middle East and Africa for Uber, and Thibaud Simphal, the company's general manager for France, guilty of deceptive commercial practices and being accomplices in operating an illegal transportation service.

One might think Californians would succumb to this drumbeat of deceptive corporate commercials.

The litigation against Sony sounds silly, as if anyone really bought tickets to the film because they read that Ledger gave the performance of the year, but the fact that litigation was taken shows that in this age deceptive promotion as commercial speech is not tolerated, at least not when its duplicity is blatantly revealed.

Tom Shea, a spokesman for Mr. Corzine, said the commercial was deceptive when it said Mr. Corzine would spend $60 million by Election Day.

It seems to me that a government mandated program should be devoid of any commercial offers, especially deceptive ones that claim to be "free" but actually cost money if you fail to cancel in time.

The authority adopted rules in 1997 that allowed transit officials to reject advertising they considered obscene, deceptive or "directly adverse to the commercial or administrative interests of the M.T.A.," among other reasons.

Weight Watchers International filed a lawsuit this week in a federal district court in New York against the Jenny Craig division of Nestlé, charging that Jenny Craig was making deceptive claims against Weight Watchers in a commercial featuring Valerie Bertinelli.