Sentence examples for widespread deception from inspiring English sources

Today's fine is for much more widespread deception on BBC shows and there is no doubt that a reprimand is in order.

The federal government said today that it would begin to crack down on what it said was widespread deception in the way discount telephone services have been promoted.

Cuna boss Paul Walsh said: "Although not everybody offering PPI was mis-selling it, everybody is paying the price of the widespread deception that went on – consumers, lenders, businesses and ultimately the UK economy.

[C8.] Halting Deceptive Telephone Ads After receiving thousands of consumer complaints about long-distance services, the federal government announced that it would begin to crack down on what two agencies described as the widespread deception in the way such services have been promoted.

We found widespread deception and omissions -- all seemingly designed to provide false assurances or to dupe the public into buying expensive puppies from mills treating dogs deplorably.

If the national society does not, the public should demand protection from the widespread and blatant deception and malpractice so common today.

Disturbingly, Fels said as recently as February that there is "a strong, powerful and quite widespread campaign of deception, fearmongering, intimidation and even some physical actions of intimidation by franchisees".

The government's lawyers say the meeting led to a widespread conspiracy of deception that remains in effect, reflecting a carefully built strategy to misrepresent the addictive nature of cigarettes, lie about the health risks of secondhand smoke and direct marketing efforts at young people to sustain a large population of smokers.

The industry also publicly attacked the Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative arm, over a series of corrections made to an undercover report that found widespread abuse and deception among recruiters at for-profit schools.

As Gretchen Morgenson reported in the New York Times, the Justice Department division responsible for checking for fraud in the bankruptcy system has found a widespread pattern of deception by banks foreclosing homes, and she concluded: "So an authoritative source with access to a lot of data has identified industry practices as not only pernicious but also pervasive.

The 1979 Belmont Report and the consequent development of institutional review boards limited the widespread use of deception in health, psychological, and social research (Rosnow and Rosenthal 1997).