Sentences with phrase «by dishonest people»

Sole proprietors with a Schedule C and those claiming the earned income tax credit have a higher chance of being audited because they have been used by dishonest people to cheat the system.

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CNN's main purpose anymore is to create racial incidents where there are none by being dishonest with and manipulating facts and inciting black people to violence.

I would recommend people check her quotes and scriptures on LDS.org, but by the time you see the letters she posted you may already know enough that she was dishonest about this.

While I'm no fan of labels --(and «emerging» or «emergent» can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people)-- it would be dishonest for me to say that I have not been influenced by many of the writers and speakers that are associated with this movement.

Even if I learned that God really doesn't exist, I would still want to follow the basic principles of trying to live as a Christian because of the joy my actions bring to myself and others by always trying to put others first instead of being selfish and / or dishonest to get what I want like so many people who have no faith choose to do,

I'm glad I know christians in real life, because if I had to judge them by their online presence, I'd say that christians are some of the most dishonest, hateful people I've ever had the displeasure of encountering.

The farmer described Akufo - Addo as a «dishonest and an insincere» person, noting that «the highest form of disrespect towards us, as farmers and our toil is this deliberate act of misrepresentation of facts about our sector by Akufo - Addo.

A poll of young people by Nottingham Trent University academics found two - thirds viewed past and present governments as dishonest and untrustworthy.

Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at Duke University, says the results fit with research by him and others on the idea that seemingly honest people are dishonest «only because of a kind of «wishful blindness,» when we don't pay attention to our thoughts.»

My reader has the best intentions as he doesn't want to be dishonest by dating people with qualities he isn't interested in.

But the number one problem people seem to run into on mobile and online dating sites is feeling like they've been deceived by dishonest photos / profiles, so the most important thing you can do to increase your chances of success is to be honest, and be yourself.

Grounded and nuanced by Sally Field, she feels like a real person, making mistakes and never above being a little selfish and dishonest.

After having visited other dealerships and being turned off by dishonest and untrustworthy sales persons, our visit to Parks Auto Sales was a breath of fresh air!

The earliest known reference being in an anthology of fables from 1052 that tells of a dishonest merchant who swindles the king by pretending to weave a supernatural garment that can not be seen or touched by any person of illegitimate birth.

I hate seeing people ripped off by investment firms, or their dishonest governments.

To be clear, when I talk about it being a scam, I use the purest definition of the word: «a dishonest way to make money by deceiving people ``.

they may be animated by a sense of justice in punishing the dishonest co-player, and in such ways come to behave exactly as a selfish person would.»

By this you must be saying that you agree with the person who asserted that ignoring a person who has found a hole in your argument is intellectually dishonest.

Considering the harm done by the burning of fossil fuels and the relative ease of replacing a substantial amount of fossil fuel burning with renewable energy, the knowingly dishonest support of fossil fuels and denigration of renewable energy by people in positions of power and / or responsibility is rightly a crime because it is certainly a grave offence against morality.

I can not tell you how many people I have represented over the years who have come to me after getting in difficulty (financial or otherwise) by relying on someone they knew to be dishonest in one area yet expected integrity in another.

So who are the people responsible for this cynical, dishonest, scientifically ill - founded assault on free markets, the oil industry and, by extension, you and me?

There needs to be another kind of thinking that centers neither on the profoundly dishonest denial promoted by the coal and oil industries, nor the misleading optimism of the environmental movement, nor the fatalistic indifference of the majority of people who just don't want to know.

I'm coming to the opinion that most people who throw insults at global warming activists aren't being dishonest, they're ill - informed, or they've been swayed by a clever (but false) argument.

Unhappily, this is a public issue that encompasses a huge amount of falsehoods by people who are either ignorant or dishonest claiming it is «settled science» that anthropogenic global warming will be catastrophic.

Most people who throw insults at disbelievers aren't being dishonest either, there really is a campaign of disinformation funded by the fossil fuel industry.

In the case of the global warming issue, a person having either a set position or no position at all becomes corrupted by industry money the moment he or she agrees to engage in dishonest behavior prompted from that payment.

As regards «honest skeptics» you said a lot of comments ago that you weren't fazed in any way by the fact that the people on whom you rely are demonstrably dishonest ideologues and hacks.

FrA 2006, s 11 makes it an offence for a person by a dishonest act to obtain services for which payment is expected, without paying for them.

``... before there can be a finding of dishonesty it must be established that the defendant's conduct was dishonest by the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people and that he himself realised that by those standards his conduct was dishonest.»

The test of dishonesty for a jury was the well - established test articulated by Lord Lane in R v Ghosh [1982] 2 All ER 689, namely whether a jury would consider the conduct in question as dishonest «according to the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people»; and, if so, whether the proposed defendant «must have realised that what he was doing was by those standards dishonest».

The conduct alleged against the appellant, a «combination... or conspiracy by traders in restraint of trade», with the added ingredient (s) of an intention financially to prejudice the conspirators» customers, was capable of being regarded by ordinary people as dishonest.

To secure a conviction for Larceny By Receiving Stolen Goods in Virginia, the Commonwealth must prove that: (1) the goods were previously stolen from another person, (2) the defendant bought or received the goods with dishonest intent, (3) the defendant knew they had been stolen at the time he received them, and (4) the goods had some value.

(i) Whether in its judgment the conduct complained of was dishonest by the lay objective standards of ordinary reasonable and honest people; (if the answer to that was no, the defendant would be acquitted)

arising from or attributable to an actual fraudulent, dishonest or criminal act committed or attempted by the Covered Person, acting alone or in collusion with other persons.

Some dishonest job seekers go so far as to steal another person's identity by borrowing their educational credentials.

Having said that, the importance of exposing a registrant to ethics courses may not be to miraculously transform same into a moral, honest, ethics abiding person from a position of immoral behaviours which serve to undermine an ethical viewpoint and an honest value system, but rather, it may serve to reveal just who the immoral, unethical, dishonest types inherently are by their very uncomfortable presence within the confines of an in - class ethics class.