Sentence examples for on a lie from inspiring English sources

One said: "The Tories' campaign was built on a lie.

"Robert's Rebellion was built on a lie!" Bran says.

Its effectiveness, perhaps, is based on a lie".

We were taken to war in Iraq on a lie.

And they are either unsubstantiated or based on a lie.

If you put him up on a lie detector test, that guy would fail.

Yet his breakthrough was built on a lie, a false bottom beneath their family album.

Was his moral redemption a fake, his spiritual regeneration based on a lie?

We went to a war on a lie, and the aftermath was disastrous.

Thus Grass's demand for honesty had been based on a lie.

And it's a question of what happens culturally when something is built on a lie".