Sentence examples for lies agrees from inspiring English sources

"It's hard to tell where the line lies," agrees Radford.

"Local partners are where the gold dust lies," agreed Sampat.

As Napoleon observed: "History is a pack of lies agreed upon".

"History is a set of lies agreed upon".

Napoleon Bonaparte once famously observed "history is a set of lies agreed upon".

"What is history, but a set of lies agreed upon?" is a quotation usually attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, although ironically it's not clear whether or not he ever actually said it.

Why not 67 or 72? Obviously, it's a gimmick, and the real problem with poll-tested positions of this kind lies in agreeing on the means to address such issues and the likely trade-offs to be made along the way.

A condition of ambiguity emerges where the problem lies in agreeing on the appropriate values, priorities, assumptions, or boundaries to be applied to the definition of possible outcomes.

That she is sorry she did not know this sooner, that she hadn't meant to lie — she agreed because she'd wanted to believe that she could, but she cannot.

But their room for manoeuvre will be constrained by the terms of the EU/IMF agreement, which both parties have suggested they will try to renegotiate.The new government's biggest difficulty, argues Garret FitzGerald, a former taoiseach who led a Fine Gael/Labour coalition in the 1980s, will lie in agreeing on a balance between spending cuts and tax rises.

O'Neill insisted that the Ulster governing body remained fully committed to the promotion of hurling and said that the fault lay in agreeing to postpone the game after the Down v Derry replay had forced the provincial programme back by one week.