That is the number that apparently persuaded the governor that the Legislature's vote to give $700 million to school districts--a bill that the governor vetoed--was an act of partisan mendacity designed to portray him as the Grinch that stole education.
So ministers resort to mendacity.
The Gwent chief confessed to a "perverse incentive" to mendacity.
The old ones' weapons of choice were muskets and bayonets; the new ones confine themselves to mendacity, demagoguery, and obstructionism.
But he'd seen enough evidence of murder and mendacity in other cables, so, as Manning, under oath, told a court, he tried to give it all to the New York Times to have knowledgeable reporters review the cables confidentially for life-saving information.
And the relevance to our own time is hard to escape, given our own recent experiences with disastrous policies, official mendacities and a sometimes error-prone and manipulated press.
"It is important not to attribute mendacity to Burchfield," she said, "but rather to give the early editors recognition for their contribution toward making the OED a truly global text.
The last thing the soon-to-be governor wants is to fall victim, as his predecessor did, to the mendacity of hope.
A stalwart of the Palestinian PR machine, Sarah Colborne of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who was on board the boat, was generally given free rein across the media to accuse Israel of inexplicable mendacity.
Given the Iraqi dictator's history of systematic mendacity, especially his well-documented and largely successful attempts to deceive the previous lot of UN inspectors, who withdrew from Iraq in 1998, the elected leaders of America and Britain may feel entitled to find such a question insulting.
