Sentence examples for had trumped up from inspiring English sources

He said prosecutors had trumped up accusations that he laundered drug money.

In an interview, Mr. Gambrell said that Interior Department officials had "trumped up" claims of document destruction and insubordination as a way to get rid of him.

But advertisers and regulators doubted his story from the beginning, and in a 1962 interview, Mr. Vicary acknowledged that he had trumped up the findings to gain attention for his business.

But KAC had trumped up the allegations against Dr Mallalah to put the lid on a story of corruption in which its then chairman was himself involved.That story began exactly five years earlier in Cairo, where KAC had set up temporary headquarters after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990.

The prime minister contends that the left-leaning judiciary has trumped up the charges to destroy his political career.

The prime minister's supporters contend that a politicized judiciary has trumped up charges against him.

Someone who has trumped up a résumé should not compound the lie with another lie, Ms. Ford advised.

A Washington Post editorial argues as follows: "The [State Dept.] analysis underscores the extent to which activists have trumped up a relatively mundane infrastructure issue into the premier environmental fight of this decade, leading to big marches and acts of civil disobedience to advance a cause that is worthy of neither.

In 1890, the latest in the line, one William Waldorf, having trumped up a coat of arms ( "a silver goshawk perched on a gloved hand"), thus bought an Italianate mansion on the Thames at Cliveden, a house so large and ostentatious, meals were despatched from the kitchen to the dining table by miniature railway.

But having trumped up a phony crisis, and survived, Netanyahu returned to Israel "a conquering hero".

And though the widespread assumption is that the Egyptian court must have trumped up the charges, no journalist has bothered to investigate the matter independently.