Sentence examples for fictitious item from inspiring English sources
In one case complainants' witness swears to an entirely fictitious item placed in complainants' book as a test, which was duly appropriated by defendants.
Adding a fictitious entry to a list of items is a device that has been used by poll takers over the years to test respondents.
Yahoo's shopping section, like SimplySearsCollege, offers profiles of fictitious college students along with matching items — in this case, from a range of merchants that pay to list their items on Yahoo.
The consequence illustrated in each fictitious situation depicted was created to reflect the content of questionnaire items used by Eccles et al.[ 26] to ask about risk perception and anticipated consequences; and the discriminant beliefs identified by Walker et al.[ 17] as predictive of GPs who do and do not intend to manage URTI without antibiotics.
The online poker operators sought to avoid detection by banks and legal authorities by funneling payments through fictitious online businesses that purported to sell jewelry, golf balls and other items, according to the indictment.
I recruit respondents to rate fictitious female job candidates - both white and black and lesbian and straight - on various items, such as perceived competence, warmth, and morality.
"It began to dawn on me that although fiction was undoubtedly fictitious it could also be true or false, not with the truth or falsehood of a news item but as to its disinterestedness, its intention, its integrity," he wrote later.
Similar to Republican efforts to implement restrictive voting laws to address the fictitious rash of fraud, this demeaning legislation aims to prevent welfare recipients from spending their assistance on entertainment items like tattoos, body piercings, spas, lingerie, theme parks and fortune-tellers, a remedy to a growing trend that simply doesn't exist.
(Names used are fictitious).
