Sentence examples for deliberate dishonest from inspiring English sources

A former Deutsche Bank managing director and an accountant have been sent to prison for "persistent, prolonged, deliberate, dishonest behaviour", drawing a line under the UK financial watchdog's eight-and-a-half year insider dealing inquiry.

Dodgson and Hind were convicted after a 12-week trial and, as he sentenced them on Thursday, Judge Jeffrey Pegden QC described them as having taken part in "persistent, prolonged, deliberate, dishonest behaviour".

"No rational person could think Mr Biggs was a racist – it was a deliberate and dishonest campaign.

Cases against the CPS, police and Home Office which do not concern allegations of deliberate or dishonest conduct will be taken completely out of scope.

As she sentenced Clarke, Judge Joanna Korner said: "It was no exaggeration when prosecution counsel said in opening that these offences were premeditated, deliberate and dishonest".

The LAA said that following cuts imposed by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (Laspo) Act 2012 she was not entitled to support because there had been no deliberate or dishonest abuse of power.

"He engaged in a dishonest, deliberate and sustained course of misconduct which lasted for several months.

The FRC said Willford's conduct could have undermined confidence in other accountants but that his behaviour was not dishonest, deliberate or reckless.

Lord Bingham said: "The passage of time and the familiarity of the accusations made against them cannot and should not obscure the unpalatable truth that this was a deliberate, blatant and dishonest misuse of public power.

It begins with an epigram from John F. Kennedy ("For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived, and dishonest — but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic") and the reassurance that it is "not a propaganda document".

Only Britain objects so strongly to a small number of ECHR rulings that it is contemplating pulling out of the convention altogether – and engaging at the same time in what many in Strasbourg, including senior British officials, see as a deliberate and often dishonest campaign against the court.