Sentence examples for minor deception from inspiring English sources

And I justify my minor deception by arguing that I'm doing myself and the woman a favor.

This minor deception was necessary to justify the disfluencies in the study.

This minor deception was designed to yield a double-blind trial of the psychological intervention.

It irks him that his father believes he is "no longer radical," though he attributes this, in part, to his own minor deceptions.

Protecting ourselves -- our minor social deceptions are frequently in service of saving face and shaping the perceptions of others.

"Many people are clearly and easily willing to act out some minor kind of deception when the risk of getting caught is not large," said Dr. David Nyberg, a professor of education and medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the author of "The Varnished Truth: Truth Telling and Deceiving in Ordinary Life" (University of Chicago Press, 1993).

It examines how the accounting irregularities in evidence at Toshiba spread from a relatively minor case of accounting misrepresentation to corporate-wide deception ingrained in the cultural fabric of the organization.

Dornberger's staff subsequently decided to continue minor construction at Watten "for deception purposes".

Sins of omission -- probably the most common kind of deception is leaving out a minor detail that has the potential to completely change the complexion of a situation.

He compounds his deception by claiming it is a minor error.

Add the fact that the program sweeps up huge numbers of noncriminals and minor offenders — and has been plagued since its inception by miscommunication, deception, opacity and suspicion — and you have a program whose plug desperately needs pulling.