Sentence examples for degrees of deception from inspiring English sources

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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).

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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".

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.

We could not find any indication that the studies were approved by an institutional review board and they used some degree of deception in order to gather data.

The degree of deception could be reduced by randomizing two-thirds/one third rather than half/half, and introducing the word 'probably'probably

Rather than being a last resort, some degree of deception appears more an essential prerequisite to doing methodological research of the type presented here and also to be useful in evaluations of behavioral interventions that exert small effects and are vulnerable to biases associated with research participation.

Andrée resisted Ekholm's criticisms to the point of deception.

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 best gift we can expect is a sort of shocked humility at the degree of self-deception we are capable of.

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