Sentence examples for misstatement by a from inspiring English sources

1. Concealment or misstatement by a juror upon a voir dire examination is punishable as a contempt if its tendency and design are to obstruct the processes of justice.

This is either an embarrassing misstatement by a White House official or a stunningly unsupported charge against fellow citizens.

Zeke Miller, White House reporter for The Associated Press, said Gidley's comments were either an "embarrassing misstatement by a White House official or a stunningly unsupported charge against fellow citizens," while reminding his followers that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Russia was engaged in "information warfare" against the U.S. .

That has now been called into question because of a series of misstatements by an F.B.I. agent testifying for the government.

Instead, they focus on whether someone has been deceived, either through a misstatement or by a failure to disclose information.

The comment referred to a misstatement by Mr. McCain earlier this year, when he struggled to explain the distinction between the majority and minority ethnic groups in Iraq.

To recover damages for securities fraud, plaintiffs have to show that they relied on a material misstatement by the company.

And we found that subsection (b) did not (under the circumstances) cover an investment adviser who helped draft misstatements issued by a different entity that controlled the statements' content.

The act, they said, would "help to blaze a trail of truthfulness and accurate disclosure in what has become a jungle of falsification, unjustified secrecy, and misstatement by statistic".

Lawyers Winckworth Sherwood are considering possible grounds for action on the basis of negligent misstatement by Lloyds TSB directors in the merger prospectus, the withholding of information by HBOS directors, a judicial review of the government's conduct and a derivative action against banking and accountancy advisers.

The S.E.C. also announced that it had agreed not to bring charges against Carter's, which reported the claimed financial misstatements by the official, Joseph M. Elles, a former executive vice president for sales.