Sentence examples for wish to deceive from inspiring English sources

Much as many of the region's embattled leaders wish to deceive their allies in the West, themselves and their people that this is about perfidious Persia, Shiite sectarianism or political Islam (as threat or savior), the reality is much simpler: The Arab young want competent, responsive and responsible rule.

Mitchell's best defense is that he wrote what he did out of affection and empathy for his subjects, not a wish to deceive.

This is not because he wishes to deceive you; it's because he wants you to know that his heart is in the right place.

He exchanged them with others at Mount Vernon, issuing instructions: "I wish to have it accomplished under pretext that may deceive both them and the public".

"Other shareholders may feel deceived like I do and wish to take similar action.

Like protagonists on the big screen, truth tellers are compelled to act, despite a world that doesn't wish to hear, minds primed to reject, and a power structure intent on undermining, discrediting, and deceiving.

But in Turing's setting we are not supposed to ask whether the computer 'consciously' deceives by giving the impression of innumerate humanity, nor why it should wish to do so.

They wish to clear away deception, without seeing that the people they wish to save — the dying heiress, the married woman in love with the younger man who is sure to abandon her — want to be deceived.

Americans wish to gamble.

Many collectors have been deceived by their own credulity, because they wished to believe that they were getting a good bargain and subconsciously suppressed their critical faculty.

.. flattering to deceive... like a house on fire".