Sentence examples for dishonest assertions from inspiring English sources

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WASHINGTON — Outgoing advisers of the National Park Service who stepped down this week over frustrations with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke are swinging back at what they called "degrading," "slanderous" and dishonest assertions from a department official.

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These ranged from the just plain dishonest assertion that he has a plan to cover preexisting conditions, to his completely false claims about government energy loans.

"It appears to me that sometime shortly after the trial had finished but before judgment had been given - and after he had invited me to visit the web site - he had arranged for the contents to be altered to support his dishonest assertion", said Mr Justice Laddie.

Some dishonest parliamentary assertions amount to little more than white lies.

This is yet another example of Trump being willing to cast doubt on information, individuals or institutions that he believes threaten his legitimacy, challenge his authority or question his actions — from attacks on "phony polls" or the "dishonest media" to assertions now of vast voter fraud.

Pankaj Mishra (Why Salman Rushdie should pause before condemning Mo Yan on censorship, Review, 15 December) makes a series of confused, dishonest and wrong-headed assertions.

On Friday, the commission said it pledged to investigate assertions of dishonest marketing and to examine whether there had been any systemic weakness in management controls.

But Rushdie said that Mishra's piece "makes a series of confused, dishonest and wrong-headed assertions", and also "misrepresents me".

Rushdie fired back in a letter to the Guardian, saying that Mishra's piece "makes a series of confused, dishonest and wrong-headed assertions" and, on the New York Review of Books blog, Perry Link defended Rushdie's right to criticize Yan and weighed in on the also-controversial question of whether Yan deserved to win the Nobel Prize.

Prang isn't the first or only candidate to finesse a first-place but inconclusive finish into "winning" a primary, and his assertion is hardly dishonest or disqualifying.

Spinmeisters like Lord Mandelson continue to advance transparently dishonest claims, such as his ludicrous assertion that the government could not give projections of public spending cuts – which we all know must come – because they would be based on "speculation".

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