Sentence examples for only a deception from inspiring English sources

The selective memory that so easily "forgets" the decisive contributions of "rationalist" Muslim thinkers like al-Farabi (10th century), Avicenna (11th century), Averroes (12th century), al-Ghazali (12th century), Ash-Shatibi (13th century) and Ibn Khaldun (14th century) is reconstructing a Europe that is not only a deception, but practises self-deception about its own past.

It only works as a deception which seems, well, deceptive.

By inviting youth to experience its beauty in the mode of promise, nature is unspeakably cruel, since that promise is and always was only an inganno, a deception.

There is no such thing; there is only a strategy of deception – and racism.

But he argues that "continuing such a deception can only result in the misappropriation of limited defence assets".

According to the study, while most children enter prostitution after being victims of force and deception, only a few made 'decisions' to enter prostitution.

The search of Cornelius's apartment last year proved this to be a deception: Investigators found not only paintings but also record books kept by his father.

There was no history for Hitler: only a timeless pattern of Jewish deception and the useful models of British and American imperialism.

"This is only a taste of the media deception to come; the granddaddy of them all when it comes to secret meetings is the vice-presidential search," Mr. Todd said.

The truth is that we each have a great capacity not only for deception but for self deception.

Yet Mr. Carrère's account of his career in deception is not only a worthy exercise but perhaps even an essential one.