Sentence examples for managed to deceive from inspiring English sources

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That he managed to deceive his KGB colleagues during this time was remarkable.

But in the end Butler managed to deceive one of the most senior courts in the land and won sympathy from the press.

The new facility has been inspected regularly, and unless the Iranians barred inspectors or managed to deceive them, any effort to produce uranium at bomb-grade levels would most likely be detected.

As perplexed as the British once were about Iraq ("so complex, its ways so labyrinthine"), Filkins writes with obvious fascination about Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi expatriate who managed to deceive some of the shrewdest politicians and journalists in America.

He had managed to deceive his family and friends for so long that by the time he was caught, one person who knew him said many people felt sympathy for him – with the wider music community choosing to push what was seen as an "aberration" under the carpet.

Bogros states that breeders of Norman horses managed to deceive the French government, through powerful lobbying groups, by selling the military rejects from the breeding programs.

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The witty finale of the Bridge variations, a fugue whose exposition contains absolutely no counterpoint at all, still manages to deceive listeners, including Kildea, who includes it in a list of examples of "strict fugal writing" in Britten.

The larvae's chemical signal merely approximates the bee pheromone, so it only manages to deceive a small subset of the population.

They think if they manage to deceive their partners successfully enough, they will get to enjoy the benefits of both a committed monog relationship and the excitement of casual sex.

So, how does the plant manage to deceive the parasitoid?

Only one possibility, Eva ruminates, could be worse than living with his mother, "cold, suspicious, resentful, accusatory, and aloof": that would be living with the father he had managed so completely to deceive for 15 years - "Getting stuck with Dad the Dupe".

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