Sentence examples for in deceitful from inspiring English sources

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission agreed today to suspend its investigation into accusations that a utility based here participated in deceitful electricity trading with a subsidiary of Enron.

Despite Yes Loans making changes in a bid to prevent its licence from being revoked, the OFT said that evidence of prolonged engagement in deceitful and oppressive business practices, and the continuing presence of some of the staff responsible for running the businesses, makes the company unfit to hold a licence.

They also say that it is a gross misrepresentation of the facts to say that they engaged in deceitful editing.

In Eph. 4 Paul says that God has given us teachers, etc. in the church to teach us, "So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes".

Although remembered primarily for her comedic skills, Lombard was also a highly capable dramatic actress, as evidenced by her performances as a noble and selfless nurse in Vigil in the Night (1940) and as a waitress mired in a deceitful mail-order romance in They Knew What They Wanted (1940).

Nick Clegg has accused the Tories of acting in a "deceitful" way over their plans for £12bn in welfare cuts, as he defended the decision of his Liberal Democrat colleague Danny Alexander to expose previous Conservative proposals prepared in 2012 to cut child benefit and tax credits.

The Automobile Club of New York, which filed the lawsuit challenging the toll increases, also cited reports issued in April by both the city and state comptroller that contended that the authority had engaged in numerous deceitful practices, including secretly shifting more than $500 million in surplus money from 2002 to 2003 and 2004 to build a better case for an immediate fare increase.

You have this character that is in a deceitful world, trying to catch the enemy that he could never trust.

It is McCain himself that is damaging to our democracy because it calls into question the legitimacy of our election process in a deceitful way.

Is it any wonder that in this accumulation of misery these unfortunate women are easily persuaded to seek solace in the deceitful and seductive properties of gin or beer?

That is where Serb generals engaged in ruthless, deceitful exchanges with Bosnian and UN leaders with some captive Dutch soldiers sitting nearby to concentrate people's minds.Thanks to hundreds of hours of testimony before the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague, it is now possible to piece together the outlines, at least, of what happened in these places.