Sentence examples for it was lied from inspiring English sources
If the House believes that it was lied to, or that Justice Department officials obstructed its investigation, those would surely be grounds to begin an impeachment investigation, as former President Richard Nixon can attest.
Did Andersen simply approve of the apparently deceptive Enron balance sheets, its off-balance-sheet partnerships and its nouvelle techniques for reporting trading revenue perhaps in part because it was lied to?
The tools that come out in a year or two will be more secure, because the tech community feels it was lied to".
Under a barrage of sometimes angry questions from a press corps that feels it was lied to, he has been unwilling or unable to acknowledge that his previous statements are, to use a phrase famously invoked by a predecessor, inoperative.
But I also felt like, 'Hey, I was lied to.' It was him hiding it that was hard to get over".
"I was lied to, manipulated.
At this point Nicholas Purnell QC, for Thomas Cook, made it clear that it was his client's position that it had been lied to.
Tom Copley, Labour's housing spokesperson in the London Assembly, said he opposed the help-to-buy scheme because it made house prices even higher, but added: "It's dreadful that people who took it up were lied to".
Alas, it remained rather blissfully unaware that it was being lied to by corporate America... a hundred times a day".
