Sentence examples for false tales from inspiring English sources

Those attacks caused the stock market to plunge after the group planted false tales of explosions at the White House.

The S.E.A. nearly crashed the stock market, for example, by planting false tales of White House explosions in a recent hijacking of The A.P.'s Twitter feed.

And he has had to beat back false tales, spread in viral e-mail messages, that he is a Muslim who attended a madrassa in Indonesia as a boy and was sworn into office on the Koran.

AN ENTERTAINMENT — THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONT (AS TOLD BY HIMSELF) The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies ("Dinner With Friends") was inspired by the life of an adventurer in Victorian England who gained renown for outrageous, and false, tales of his experiences after a supposed shipwreck.

But the big banks continue to spin their false tales.

"The issue, for me, isn't that Fox has been caught off guard, and didn't realize O'Reilly was telling possibly false tales.

Why had she told a false tale to the very prosecutors who begged her to be honest with them?

Such was her renown that certain myths about her circulate widely as fact like the false tale that she once rode a donkey down a main Riyadh shopping street until the religious police stopped her.

Prosecutors contend that the two concocted a false tale about the reasons for Ms. Stewart's trade and that she made it after learning that members of Dr. Waksal's family were selling their own ImClone stock.

He spread the false tale that Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve, planned to enrich himself at taxpayers' expense, and listed (with sexual foibles) Nixon's enemies, to trap them later.It wasn't so much the trickiness that caught the eye, however, as the take-no-prisoners fervour with which he did his job.

There's a funny "piece-a" pizza fan-fiction which tells a false tale of the history of the pizza.