Sentence examples for lay instead of from inspiring English sources

The journalist, along with people who say "lay" instead of "lie", Ireland's abortion laws – an issue over which Keyes has marched – and the Catholic church are all on Keyes's own shovel list today, but she's no longer fussed about the genre thing.

"It always amazes me when people choose to just outright lie instead of simply admitting the truth and then being proud of their decision," he wrote.

He just regrets that President Clinton shied away from delivering the Shrum version, and that the Clinton legacy was thus diminished by the president's choice to deliver his own defiant lies instead of the more artful lies of a celebrated speechwriter.

Most entrepreneurs aren't born liars, but we're brought up in a system that rewards bad behavior and taking the easy way out by lying instead of being truthful, something that eventually catches up with you.

It's basically the premise of Charlie And the Chocolate Factory except in this story, Willy Wonka manufactures death panel lies instead of everlasting gobstoppers!

When he asked how my day was, I felt like I had to lie instead of telling him a man paid me hundreds of dollars to make me lunch.

In order for our participants to grasp the concepts being discussed it was necessary for the survey items to be in a context they understood, including using the answers of 'truth and lies' instead of 'yes and no.' An additional obstacle encountered during the survey administration was the use of Likert scale answer keys.

Acknowledge why you feel a desire to lie instead of speak honestly.

It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

4. The path to workforce engagement is neither top-down nor bottom-up, but lies instead at the intersection of the two, where a collective consciousness can form.

Its origins lie instead in the Westphalian system of states and the modern scientific revolution.