The Department of Education also acted, the same day that the FTC filed its suit, informing DeVry that it would order the company to make only truthful claims to students regarding job placement, and, for five years, to submit its advertising claims in advance to an independent monitor.
Because the chair of the F.T.C. had stated that Herbalife needed to "start operating legitimately, making only truthful claims," the company hired a hundred and thirty people to comb through its distributors' social-media profiles, in order to remove pictures of their exotic cars and to curb exaggerated boasts about the money they were making.
An alternative to restricting attention to only truthful strategies is to use semantic meaning to constrain the starting point of pragmatic reasoning.
"As you are aware, your station has a responsibility to air only truthful ads and may be liable for those that are false and defamatory".
A direct appeal for compassion is not only truthful but also apt to be effective: several studies, both formal and more casual, confirm that most people will surrender a seat if asked, even if no good reason is provided.
Specifically, I examine two communication types: one in which subjects can send both untruthful and truthful messages, and another in which only truthful messages may be sent.
Rourke has sad numerous times that his dogs have saved his life, and most recently told us that, "Puppy love is the only thing that's truthful, honest".
We had decided during our strategic planning sessions that being truthful was the only way to go.
"If we're going to require that nations report truthful emissions, the only way to make that work is to have them verified by scientifically based measurements".
I was immediately convinced by Tolstoy's claim that the only accurate, and thus really truthful, interpretation of "Anna Karenina" was a word-for-word retelling; and, since "Anna Karenina" already existed with 100 percent word-for-word accuracy, what use was Strakhov?
