Sentence examples for were to deceive from inspiring English sources

For example, in mid-December weapons experts at one facility were replaced by Iraqi intelligence agents who were to deceive inspectors about the work that was being done there.

Aware of how easy it is to deceive others, he was paranoid of being a mark.

The result was to deceive investors, while inflating a bubble that burst with disastrous consequences.

They worry that to do so is to deceive their patients.

The committee staff said it was "not sure if O'Donnell is confused... or if the intent is to deceive".

Our department's mission was to deceive our people and the world, doing what was necessary to keep our leader in power.

Ms. Fougner, echoing the anger of many teachers, said she could only assume the purpose of such questions was to "deceive, demoralize, exhaust and frustrate students".

Her parents are preoccupied with her alcoholic mother's faltering recovery, and Rosie, now 17, discovers how easy it is to deceive them about her own dangerous impulses.

The rest was classic cheating, and it mostly went undetected by the refs — no surprise, perhaps, since the whole point of deception is to deceive.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Well, because it's not a "work" at all but a pastiche whose one and only intention is to deceive.

The idea is to deceive the interceptor to actively exclude the communication signal as it resembles the original whistle.