Sentence examples for deluding us from inspiring English sources

The Tooth Fairy did it by printing money, by bogus accounting and by deluding us into thinking that by borrowing from China or Germany, or against our rising home values, or by creating exotic financial instruments to trade with each other, we were actually creating wealth.

So wishful is this thinking, and so successful have our own governments been in deluding us, that in all of the controversy over the SS-20's, Pershings and cruise missiles, no one seems to have asked the question: "Why did the Russians in the mid-1970's begin to put those SS-20's in place?" They didn't have to, if it was merely military security they were concerned about.

To what degree has Tony deluded us — and himself — with his simplistic account of the love triangle among himself, Veronica and Adrian?

But it should not delude us into thinking that the Fed can push unemployment lower without risking higher inflation.

Pearce will not be whipping the British nation into one of those frenzies which deluded us into imagining that Italy would be getting a hiding, less than a month ago.

It takes a glittering cast to camouflage the play's compromised positions and to delude us into believing we are in terribly clever company.

The politicians' real aim is to brag that they have "done something" when all they have really done is delude us.

We have let the Press Complaints Commission delude us into thinking that it is genuinely independent and has a bite that everybody is frightened of.

The danger, if there is one, is that the easy, on-demand access to reams of information from the internet may delude us into mistaking the data we download for genuine wisdom worth acting upon.

Such a man must plainly either have such confidence in his rhetoric as to adventure to prove that what has been once for all decided is still undetermined, or be bribed to try to delude us by elaborate sophisms.

"Today we can see clearly that Olmert and Livni deluded us and maybe themselves when, after the second Lebanon war two years ago, they said that Hezbollah had become much weaker," he said.