Sentence examples for on a prevarication from inspiring English sources

But, more important, how can we honor and mourn these troops and all the fallen heroes before them if we don't, as Americans, resolve that our nation will never again send our men and women into harm's way in distant lands on a whim, on bombast, on a prevarication.

That first clause is a prevarication, and the second I hope is untrue.

It transformed a prevarication into the truth.

Present everywhere is "Turkish Report" by Sanja Ivekovic, a Zagreb resident who turns a report on the status of women in Turkey into crumpled, haphazardly strewn wads of red paper — a comment on the prevarication of politicians who could enact change but rarely do.

South Korea, facing criticism after it agreed Sunday to send 400,000 tons of rice to North Korea despite the North's prevarication on a Feb 13 international agreement to shut down its main nuclear reactor, warned that North Korea might not get all the aid if it continued to refuse to live up to its commitment.

Once the financial lobby realized it couldn't win the over-all intellectual argument, it settled on a policy of stalling and prevarication, hiring consultants and eminent professors to bombard the regulators with lengthy briefs defending the bank's activities on an individual basis.

(See my piece on this widespread prevarication here).

I'm not sure what the statute of limitations is on prevarication, so I'll leave the specifics of the story assignment vague.

Truth be told, in the past I have been guilty of prevarication on an Olympian scale in almost all aspects of my life.

Others include a continued inability to define and secure our right to ply for hire on the street, ongoing prevarication on the licensing of pedicabs, inadequate provision of ranks, unnecessary phasing out of older vehicles in the unproven name of better air quality, and being treated as second-class members of the transport infrastructure in London.

The term 'Death Tax' is one of the most egregious prevarication's perpetrated on an uninformed American public over the last few decades.