Sentence examples similar to to lay in order to from inspiring English sources

No wonder truth came hard to him, when "he needed to lie, in order to be".

As it is, we often have to lie in order to tell the truth.

Was it ethical for me to lie in order to possibly spare the life of this defendant?

And yet, I have also seen situations where accusers have been willing to lie in order to manipulate the system to extract a settlement.

He also acknowledged that some officers in the department might feel pressure to lie in order to corroborate a partner's story.

JC: Which is to say, the kind of person who feels compelled to lie in order to further our own goals?

However, in the game involving honesty, the patients with damage in that region of the brain were more willing than the other groups to lie in order to benefit monetarily.

In China, the problem is magnified by the country's size, the rapidly shifting make-up of its quasi-market system and the widespread tendency among officials to lie in order to boost their political fortunes.

Mr. Smith, who testified that the F.B.I. had instructed him to lie in order to elicit incriminating information, said on the call that he believed Galleon's trading was legitimate.

Plain good advice has thus come to be no less suspected than bad; and the advocate of the most monstrous measures is not more obliged to use deceit to gain the people, than the best counsellor is to lie in order to be believed.

During an experimental session, researchers Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong found that people who purchased "green" products that were advertised as good for the environment were subsequently less altruistic towards others and more likely to lie in order to receive a greater payout.