Sentences with phrase «damn lie»

Mind he has plenty other faults, most involving damned lies to fans and a total inability to do his job.
Give it up surely u know there are lies damn lies and statistics.....
His most damning lie of all is that he cares about the clubs future BUT still refuses to accept that HE is the prime (though not only) cause.
As sociologist Joel Best writes in Damned Lies and Statistics, «We may think of statistics as facts, but people make facts meaningful, and analysts» ideologies shape the meanings they assign to social statistics.»
The current fracas is yet another shameful and retrograde distraction concocted by this administration to retard progress with more damn lies.
«The way I re-phrase the old saying is that, «There are lies, there are damned lies, statistics and then facts about the private equity industry,»» he said.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder tweeted a photo of himself and Obama saluting alongside several US soldiers, and wrote, «Stop the damn lying - you're the President.
«There are three kinds of lies,» humorist Mark Twain might have said in 2017: «Lies, damned lies, and social media.»
This is what Benjamin Disraeli had in mind when he said «There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.»
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Five year figures at early 2014 were a classic case of «lies, damned lies and statistics».
• Lies, Damn Lies and LIBOR (London Banker) • Stock Buybacks that Wasted Investor Money (CNBC) • Short Sales on NYSE Top 2011 Peak as September Bets Lost 21 % (Bloomberg) • WTF?
This 1999 Fortune article, «Lies, Damned Lies, and Managed Earnings», makes this point perfectly.
and for people in general which would include scientists and others there are more statistics... As Benjamin Disraeli once said: «There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.»
You obviously failed victim to the old adage «lies, damned lies, and statistics.»
hopefully your not using the Dentsu poll as your source, it is based only upon those who answered they do not fit into any religious group and their statistical sampling is notoriously skewed (there are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics... Mark Twain)
Then, closing the Bible, he muttered, «It's a damned lie.
Like they say, «Therea are — Lies... Damn lies... and Statistics».
Mark Twain warned that there are damn lies and then there are statistics.
7 Reasons Why «I Need to Lose Weight» Is a Damn Lie from Ravishly.
And by saying he has been our best player so far this season, is a damn lie...
«Supposedly I had said I was going to kill the principal, which was a damned lie.
Now I fully get the lies, damned lies and statistics thing but difficult to see from the above what makes one the best CB in the world and the other one of the worst.
As for people whose argument is based around statistics I'll say two things; 1) How did teams buy players before this Americanisation came into the equation 2) And a quote; There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
I will not rehearse the usual caveats regarding «lies, damned lies and statistics» other than to say it is the closest we have to objectivity and whether we like it or not statistics are indispensable aids for football coaches (and sports coaches in general) around the world.
«There are lies, damned lies and statistics» is an old and well appreciated quote suggesting that anyone can produce stats to prove anything at any time.
And this the entire world knows is a damn lie, Sun!
Encouraging or a case of «damned lies and statistics»?
However statistics are used by politicians and there is the saying of «Lies, Damned lies and Statistics».
Once again we are bombarded with rumours, most of them would turn out to be damn lies.
Again those damn lies!
But, as they say, there are lies, damn lies and statistics.
For me personally, the grievance is not just about «lies, damned lies, and statistics» (or as Robert Walker put it «Lies, Damned Lies and Brexit»), but also about the attitude taken by some of the campaigns on how to address the voter.
, Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics Edition.
Mark Twain's reproach against «Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics» could easily be reformulated against Lies, Damn Lies, and Statutes.
A previous British prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli, is supposed to have put it more succinctly, as in «There are lies, damned lies and statistics.»
«Lies, damned lies, and...» You know the rest.
Lies, damn lies and government statistics: In the spirit of the Citizen's Charter, the government has forced local councils to publish statistics to check on their performance.
It was Mark Twain who famously promoted the idea about three kinds of mistruths (lies, damned lies, and statistics), attributing the original sentiment to Disraeli.
It could be said there are 3 types of lies — lies, damn lies and dating lies.
Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a «Lies, damned lies, and Wikipedia articles.»
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