She hits back, setting into motion an unlikely but highly watchable tale of deceit, double-dealing, divorce and international fraud. |
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Surely it is the politicians that have brought politics into disrepute with their spin culture, deceit, half-truths and underhand dealings? |
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It is to help those who have fallen for the lies and deceit of quack medicine and pseudoscience. |
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But the simple fact is, whether through wishful thinking or deliberate deceit, the administration uttered untruths. |
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A slip becomes a slide when the executive starts setting unacceptable standards based on deceit and untruth. |
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He said the biggest obstacle to a Yes vote was the Government, whose track record of deceit, and duplicity had now been shamefully exposed. |
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But given his deceit on foreign policy and duplicity on the nuclear issue, I think we have good reason to be suspicious. |
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Politicians always have hidden careerist agendas, and are versed in the language of deceit. |
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Although candor is praised over craftiness, history shows that leaders who practiced deceit overcame those that lived by their pledges. |
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But this is to miss the point by such a wide margin that it amounts to yet another deliberate deceit. |
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Jonson's plays challenged the audience to examine the impact of a society governed by deceit and subterfuge. |
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These contrivances that I declare unto thee are legitimate means of kingcraft. They are not reckoned as methods fraught with deceit. |
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She demonstrates how this colossal structure of deceit clouds the historical record. |
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I have to give a speech next week on media deceit and distortion, and when I saw this very same paper I thought, great! |
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At no stage, however, did the learned judge identify the deceit or deliberate falsehood. |
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All the lies, deceit, conniving and games I endured while I was with him have made me frightened to date again. |
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The city now seeks to amend the claim to plead fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit and to seek punitive damages. |
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Insofar as this is self-delusion rather than outright deceit, he is a Pollyanna. |
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I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit. |
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And it will sweep away, once and for all, the web of distortion and deceit that poisons this debate. |
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I can't take the lies and deceit anymore, the truth had to come out sometime and here it is. |
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Those who seek to prey on their fellow humans thrive on surprise and deceit to conceal their true intentions. |
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I don't need to lead you through the thickets of distortion, deceit, and self-puffery here. |
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Wonder if Janet will repent for her theft, or get caught further and further in a web of deceit. |
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Orwell argued that in a time of universal deceit the only revolutionary act is to tell the truth. |
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This kind of direct charity can, however, run into people who misuse it by constantly begging or employing deceit and dishonorableness. |
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This may be seen as part of a value system based upon personal honour, which eschews deceit and dishonesty towards members of the social group. |
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There has been some doubt expressed in the past as to the existence of a limitation period for the tort of fraud or deceit. |
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I have to face these facts, so that I won't cling on to the deceit he spun around me. |
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The most basic of checks will expose your deceit and ruin any chance of getting the job. |
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They assume that all the users online are psychos, freaks, losers, geeks, or desperate, as the internet has a bad reputation for deceit. |
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He wove a web of deceit to cover his violent past and duped the entire community into believing he was a war hero and former CIA operative. |
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Both couples suffer in unhappy marriages, and they deal with their situations through denial, deceit, and savage personal attacks. |
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Unions and victims' groups have already accused the company of fraud, deceit and corporate malfeasance. |
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The problem with being a professional liar is that one tends to forget one's past lies, thereby becoming entangled in your own web of deceit. |
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The play is a thriller about the talented Mr Tom Ripley who is a master of deceit and disguise. |
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The Prime Minister has been manning the barricades in defence of Mr Byers, who is charged with manipulation and deceit. |
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Of course, the electorate are increasingly seeing through the lies and deceit of Labour. |
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Huey, excited by Robert's ideas on deceit and self-deception, was eager for the three of us to get together. |
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At the declaration of the poll on November 18, Dias openly stated that the campaigns of the major parties had been based on lies and deceit. |
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Maybe this deceit will become the main semi-official excuse for disregarding the allied victory. |
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But the culture of deceit, fraud and corruption at different levels of society is never going to be eradicated by tribunals. |
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Yet there pre-exists in each character a component of deceit and corruption. |
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Yet Shaft keeps on operating, pulling questionable legal tricks and using deceit and deception to fool the gangland trash of the streets. |
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In the end, an amazing tale of deceit and treachery is played out between these two men. |
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Lady Macbeth feels that if her husband does not enjoy his royalty, then all of their deceit and treachery has been for nothing. |
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There is so much deceit and trickery about this mob that it needs to be categorised. |
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Dishonesty and deceit in areas critical to the public interest have been the hallmark of his Administration. |
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It would be cruel, but a pirate who ever dared such trickery and deceit would ask for no better. |
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To conclude, the April 30th referendum is a mockery of democracy and an encore of long-established patterns of political deceit in this country. |
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The ward bosses' unanticipated about-face was not motivated by conversion but cunning and deceit that cynically betrayed public trust. |
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It would appear that simulation and deceit were linked to the manifestation of power and fortune. |
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Their talk is adultery and fornication, dishonesty, greed and deceit, and easy money. |
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Her ex-husband's deceit had been so successful she did not know the full story until she sat through his trial. |
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There is something inherently sick about seeking to profit from deceit. |
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Unfortunately, it has become a game of deceit and deception, not the back-and-forth conversation that a great match should be. |
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They keep jabbering about deceit and cleaning up the government. |
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This is what happens when you use a gentle little fib, one designed to make children happy, and turn it into a full scale lie, complete with intricate webs of deceit. |
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He lines his pockets when opportunities arise, and gets ahead of domestic rivals by craft and deceit. |
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But these two pillars of support for lethal injection have always been based on a form of deceit. |
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The media has exposed deceit and fabrication behind the workings of the government machinery and the various commissions set up to look into acts of violence. |
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Our relationship, now infected with deceit, lay heavy on me. |
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If we do, that would be tantamount to lying, deceit or unprofessionalism. |
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Let us turn from selfishness and deceit, from self-pity and self-seeking to discover the spirit of God which is the true spirit of thanksgiving, dedication and commitment. |
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Unfortunately our authorities and political system are so wrapped up in institutionalised deceit that we just get fobbed of with any old tosh wrapped up as facts. |
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Hermes is god of communication, deceit, language, trickery, and magic. |
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This close observation of deceit caused her to skip her turn at jumprope. |
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Rycroft, who had his head shaved to add to the deceit that he was being treated for the illness, also poured other people's money into a string of unprofitable businesses. |
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When I asked tremulously for an ice cream at Le Caprice and was presented instead with a sorbet, I perceived deliberate deceit and collapsed into hysterical sobs. |
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What we have here is an opposition calculatedly using the tactics of deceit, promising one thing to gain office, with the intention of doing exactly the opposite if elected. |
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This is unskillful because it requires subterfuge and deceit, it means that solemn promises made at the time of marriage are broken, and it amounts to a betrayal of trust. |
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The trio agree honesty is the best policy and agree to leave the money where they found it, but an atmosphere of deceit and betrayal soon descends on the household. |
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Anybody having experienced the effects of war firsthand will understand the deceit and perversion in calling these games a reflection of global events. |
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Like the moon at night, you shine with a watchful and delicate beam of gentleness, which extinguishes the mischief and deceit used by the symbols of darkness. |
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These are instances of deception we know about, and they have two important consequences apart from the fraudulence of any policies based on such deceit. |
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However their deceit conceals not so much defiance and ineptitude as fear. |
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What is deceit or delusion, and what is genuine in this movement? |
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To say that this issue is too big for the people is to portray a myth, to portray a sham, to engage in an exercise in deceit, and to engage in an exercise in duplicity. |
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To promote and protect their interest, they used coercion, bribery and nepotism as state policy and created a culture of opportunism, deceit, duplicity, loot and plunder. |
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On Borgen, grandstanding and deceit still plague the political process. |
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In later European folklore, the figure of Reynard the Fox symbolises trickery and deceit. |
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It meant challenging the deceit and dehumanization on both sides. |
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So with that much deceit on a straight website, imagine the duplicity in a forum for fornicators. |
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The legal fiction used was that by failing to pay after promising to do so, a defendant had committed deceit, and was liable to the plaintiff. |
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He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. |
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Upon his return he killed Eriphyle for her vanity and deceit of him and his father. |
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Under the smiling, sugarcoated tourist trap facade lies a complicated web of deceit, greed and murder. |
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Masciandaro demonstrates how the wisdom of Melchizedek transforms the intended deceit and violence into mutual respect and friendship. |
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However, he also distrusted the calculated gestures of Ferdinand and referred to him as a model of the art of political deceit. |
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In fact I've rarely felt anything other than bemusement at how referees allow him to get away with his acts of blatant deceit. |
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To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin, Sith that the justice of your title to him Doth flourish the deceit. |
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They are described as preferring to defeat their enemies by deceit, surprise attacks, and cutting off supplies. |
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Scottie forces her up the bell tower and makes her admit her deceit. |
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Most state securities acts provide for rescissory damages when a sale involves fraud, deceit, or a material misrepresentation or omission of fact. |
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By 1558 the lawyers had succeeded in creating another method, enforced by the Court of King's Bench, through the action of assumpsit, which was technically for deceit. |
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A type of confidence trick, social engineering is the use of deceit to manipulate or trick victims into certain actions including divulging personal or financial information. |
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And over the North presides the Black Tezcatlipoca, known by no other name than Tezcatlipoca, the god of judgment, night, deceit, sorcery and the Earth. |
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Speaking as an alleged eyewitness, Marcellinus recounts how Theodorus and several others were made to confess their deceit through the use of torture, and cruelly punished. |
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For when the leader was come into Persia, and the army with him that seemed invincible, they were slain in the temple of Nanea by the deceit of Nanea's priests. |
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Gatecrashing a hedonistic world of pill-popping eccentrics and mad-for-it DJs, Carl and Sunny become unwitting pawns in a deadly game of blackmail and deceit. |
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