Sentence examples for pervasive deception from inspiring English sources
During the past few years we have been active in defending Iran's national rights – particularly those relating to the peaceful use of nuclear energy – against the pervasive deception created by western and Israeli-influenced media and official statements.
In November 2012, a federal judge in Chicago held the city responsible for the pervasive deception of its police department after its officers refused to properly investigate the complaint of a bartender who was severely beaten by a drunk off-duty cop to whom she had denied service.
"This seems to be a pervasive culture of deception in the auto industry and it needs to stop now," he said.
Furthermore, brain scientists have noted the pervasive nature of self-deception and of different species of "confabulation", and they have begun to make progress in unmasking the underlying neurological processes (Hirstein 2005).
But deception remained a pervasive issue, and a core diagnostic issue either as a suspicion to be combated, or as a reality to be accommodated.
The contention here is that deception is a pervasive issue because that is how at least some neurologists understand their patients.
Well, that's probably not how it is at all … (S10) Others argued that deception itself was pervasive, and therefore not diagnostically helpful: … insight changes from minute to minute; we're all at times insightful and at times we're not insightful; we're all at times honest and dishonest.
In view of the empirical evidence that self-deception is not only possible, but pervasive (Sahdra & Thagard 2003), most have sought some resolution to these paradoxes.
It is this insecurity – existing, pervasive, worsening, global vulnerability of our infrastructure, communications and rights – that has been the greatest deception in this battle to date.
There is a powerful, pervasive tendency, among philosophers, social scientists, and laypeople to dismiss their self-appraisals as reflecting ignorance, self-deception, defensive exaggeration, or courageous optimism [see SEP entry on "Feminist Perspectives on Disability", Sec. 3].
