Sentence examples for false circumstances from inspiring English sources

"The actual incidence of voters casting a fraudulent vote or voting in false circumstances is minimal verging on non-existent".

Mr. Brokaw wasn't explicitly talking about mainstream media, but he might as well have been: he described how a war that was sold under false circumstances was still being fought, how people encouraged to buy homes now found themselves underwater, how globalization had buried the hopes of many.

Well let me tell you something, the taxpayer and our nation will never get back the lost wealth taken under these false circumstances and this colossal breach of fiduciary duty.

What the speaker of (12a) said would be false in circumstances in which Alice was unlikely to jump off the cliff if she jumped.

This is because, as propositions are the objects that are true or false in counterfactual circumstances, if p = p*, then p and p* have the same truth value in all counterfactual circumstances.

Pretexting – when an attacker creates false, usually urgent, circumstances to compel the victim to provide information – for example, they might masquerade as a senior IT manager at your company asking for your login details. "The threat is growing all the time," says social engineering consultant Jenny Radcliffe.

Therefore, given definition 2, sentence (23) should be false under these circumstances.

According to Molina, a true proposition is part of God's free knowledge if and only if it is a contingent truth (an actual truth which could have been false under different circumstances) which is within God's control.

A true proposition is part of God's natural knowledge if and only if it is a necessary truth (a truth which could not be false under any circumstances whatever) which is beyond God's control (nobody, including God, could make them false).

It must do so because, according to the theory, part of the role of 'The F' (at least in such declarative sentences) is to say that there is an F. Contrary to this, Strawson claims that we would not always regard a saying of 'The F is G' as false in such circumstances.

That is false in many circumstances.