Sentence examples for degree of deception from inspiring English sources
Before what Lawrence Summers called "the popularization of politics," Lyndon Johnson required a degree of deception to pass civil-rights legislation.
Major Matthew Alexander, a US interrogator in Iraq who eschewed torture in favour of traditional interrogation techniques, "based on relationship building and a degree of deception" told the Independent's Patrick Cockburn at the weekend, "The reasons why foreign fighters joined al-Qaida in Iraq was overwhelmingly because of abuses at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib and not Islamic ideology".
A degree of deception is required in order to be civil.
McNamara concluded the degree of deception was so great at one firm, A to Z Marketing, that it could not be profitable if run legally and ethically.
The norms of that sector (and many other nonfinancial sectors in the United States) would not stand for this degree of deception and malpractice," said one critic of the successful Republican campaign against her nomination as first Bureau Director.
Sawyer's cast is exquisite in every particular, from Witten's anguished and sincere Martin, to Morrissey's perfectly callow Billy, to Kirkwood's morally equivocal Ross, who is comfortable with any degree of deception, greed and casual infidelity as long as it jibes with the mores of his old-boy elites.
Not only the serpent, but Adam, Eve and even God himself engage in varying degrees of deception, she points out (God tells Adam and Eve they'll perish right away if they eat the apple; they don't, unless you count getting evicted).
The victims, who were beaten if they resisted, sold their bodies to customers for as little as $35.Trafficking is distinguished from mere immigrant-smuggling by the degree of coercion, deception and exploitation.
The deadly attacks Tuesday must have required help from foreign governments, several officials sources said, citing the degree of coordination, deception and training needed to mount such a complex and determined operation and elude detection by U.S. intelligence.
The best gift we can expect is a sort of shocked humility at the degree of self-deception we are capable of.
