Sentence examples for possible to deceive from inspiring English sources

For all you know, when you excitedly say, "Walk," your dog hears, "I like you!" or "Let's drive home and watch 'Lassie.' " Yet clearly it is possible to deceive a dog (by pretending to throw the ball, for example) and in your case, fortunately so.

It is also possible to deceive by omitting to make certain statements, or by remaining silent.

It is possible to deceive by making a truthful and true statement that intentionally implies a falsehood.

It is also possible to deceive an addressee about some matter other than the content of the statement made (e.g., making a truthful statement, but faking an accent).

Finally, it is possible to deceive by non-linguistic conventional signs (symbols), such as wearing a wedding ring when one is not married, or wearing a police uniform when one is not a police officer.

It is also possible to deceive using truthful statements that are not assertions, such as jokes, ironic statements, and even the lines of a play delivered on stage, so long as the intention to deceive can be formed.

The president, who needed to conserve his own power by keeping the competition alive as long as possible, had to deceive with false encouragement the two or three contenders he did not intend to tap.

The practice died only when the secret ballot introduced in 1890 made it possible for voters to deceive their paymasters.

It is an uphill battle, not only because of the bitterness between the two sides that Sharon had a huge role in fostering but also because, through his unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Sharon proved that it was possible for Israel to deceive the world by portraying its actions as striving for peace, when in fact they were efforts to abort it.

He concedes that divine omnipotence is such that it is always possible for God to deceive us in ways we could never detect, although this is tempered by his confidence, for which he cites empirical evidence, that our ordinary powers of perception and inductive inference are sufficiently reliable to make "the comprehension of truth with certitude possible for us" (QM II.1: 9ra).

If the cue was lie, the participant had to lie as convincingly as possible in order to deceive the computer system, which was monitoring his neural activities.