Sentences with phrase «deceiving the public by»

Further, Lee spoke out against a similar trend, calling projects like «Litecoin Cash» and «Litecoin Plus» scams that attempt to deceive the public by utilizing Litecoin's reputation.

Extinct: No individuals of the breed exist e.g. Mexican Hairless Fake: An attempt to deceive the public by representing a cat as something it is not.

These comments also vindicate the skeptics who formed strong opinions regarding Climategate: The science was not sound and the people exposed in Climategate were deliberately suppressing that information and seeking to deceive the public by disparraging skeptics and the arguments skeptics were making.

You are missing the point of the article and therefore seem to support the need to deceive the public by not mentioning (until forced to) the probability and more importantly the uncertainty of the claim.

Ontario's statement of claim alleges that the defendant tobacco companies knew about the addictiveness of cigarettes and the health damages they caused and deceived the public by misrepresenting the risks.

Not exact matches

The agreement was part of a settlement following charges that Facebook «deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public,» the FTC said in a news release at the time.

Russian internet trolls — paid by the Kremlin to spread false information on the internet — have been behind a number of «highly coordinated campaigns» to deceive the American public, journalist Adrian Chen found when researching Russian troll factories in St. Petersburg in 2015.

Facebook agreed then to settle the commission's charges that it deceived users by assuring them their information would remain private, then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public.

Right from its opening sentence («One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit,») the book's message resonated with a public outraged by a rash of corporate scandals and feeling deceived by the failure of American forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

The original decree was made as a settlement to an inquiry at the time into how Facebook — then just a startup but growing wildly fast — «deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public,» and it arose specifically in relation to how third - party apps were able to use and access this data.

I suspect fear mongering to justify disproportionate retribution and agendas by those who don't have to risk life and limb but profit from war and politicians being puppets of that with measure to deceive the public to keep the public in line with their policy about war.

It permits the unscrupulous dealer to deceive the public and to profit by the sale of a spurious article in the dress of a well known and popular brand.

Now maybe he didn't actively participate in the public campaign, like Gazidis, to deceive fans into believing that the move to the Emirates would ultimately allow us to compete financially with the best of the best, but he clearly played a prominent role in the «shell game» being perpetrated by this club.

Hence, fair persons can easily and insightfully infer that ISIS sometimes have some limited (e.g. 1 or 2 or 3 days) attacks — by bombing — to some non-Shia countries to deceive the public thoughts as if all of the world is their goals... / But please be realistic...

«As organised labour, we therefore find it difficult to place the faith of these people who are constantly feeding the public with lies in order to deceive when the truth of the matter is that Kogi State civil servants and pensioners are dying of starvation and treatable diseases, walking the street of Lokoja as beggars because their salaries and allowances have not been paid for a period of three to twenty - two months by the government of Yahaya Bello.

The organisation further described Umeh's action as a propaganda calculated at deceiving the general public that Ekwunife had been disqualified by the Appeal Court from contesting the senatorial election for Anambra Central district.

Deceived by the Justice Department's cover - up, relying on false assurances that Rocky Flats wasn't as contaminated as everyone had thought, public officials now plan to open the former nuclear weapons plant to recreation.

As in his other new book «Waterlogged,» which I recently reviewed, Noakes calls some of the foundations of physiology misguided and even refers to the cover - ups by individuals, companies and governments, as scams that deceive the public.

These shenanigans by the district and the union have been presented to the public in a way that is designed to pull the wool over people's eyes: «The result has been a perversion of the evaluation system and a knowing effort to deceive the public using educational jargon.»

So far, the media have not sought to explain how they were all deceived in November by the vote, or how many citizens have been deceived by their own public officials, not only in Massachusetts but elsewhere as well.

The HSUS» complaint contends that Laymon is violating the state's consumer protection law, also known as the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, by deceiving the public into believing that the dogs in her operation are rescued from other facilities, when in fact many of the dogs may be coming directly from her puppy mill.

A complaint from The HSUS contends that Laymon is violating the state's consumer protection law, also known as the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, by deceiving the public into believing that the dogs in her operation are rescued from other facilities, when in fact many of the dogs may be coming directly from her puppy mill.

An online poll by The Telegraph showed opinion was split on whether the judges and public had been deceived, with 51 percent considering it a scandal and 49 percent saying they saw no problem.

These efforts are opposed by the American parent clubs of the Golden Retriever and Poodle, which view Goldendoodles and similar hybrids as genetic gambles that create expensive designer mutts bred primarily to deceive the buying public into thinking that there is something «better» about them than their purebred predecessors.

It was revealed during the run - up to the vote that the state's four largest investor - owned utilities colluded in a $ 20 million - plus public relations scheme to deceive voters by mislabeling the referendum and misrepresenting it as being pro-solar.

The real problem with politics in climate science if the continuing efforts by the fossil fuel industry, led by ExxonMobil, to distort scientific facts in an effort to deceive the public about the real extent of the problem.

I did show longer time scales on the temperature data and proxies not so much to discredit the deceiving hockey stick, but to address the overwhelming belief by the public and policy makers that the current warming is «unprecedented», «dangerous» and nearing a «tipping point».

The letter, addressed to the European Commission, says the E.U. is deceiving itself and the public by asserting that biofuels are carbon neutral.

What it does mean, though, is that the public and the policymakers were greatly deceived by the «consensus» science and computer models that loudly declared (and btw, still do) imminent disasters and doomsday global warming.

Eighteen Democrats in the US House of Representatives directly cited UCS in a letter requesting a formal investigation into Exxon, among others, stating, «UCS uncovered many internal company documents confirming a massive coordinated campaign of deception conducted by the industry to deceive the public of climate science that even their own scientists confirmed.»

What is clear that state attorneys general and shareholders will continue to push for proper disclosure of climate change risks by fossil fuel and utility companies, in order to protect investors and the broader public from being deceived.

The case against the fossil fuel industry largely relies on proving that these companies deceived the American public about the threats posed by consuming their products.

The moral imperative to stop global warming might not merely strike out, Pope Francis could implode it in the most epic manner imaginable in a showcase of how the public was deceived by people who apparently broke the commandment about bearing false witness.

According to the court: «Defendants coordinated significant aspects of their public relations, scientific, legal, and marketing activity in furtherance of a shared objective — to... maximize industry profits by preserving and expanding the market for cigarettes through a scheme to deceive the public.»

Jan P Perlwitz: Now, one could ask, is this twisting of Gavin's words, that he was asking for blind faith into science, even though his use of the term «bad faith» implies the opposite, he asks for sticking to the truth and to facts, is based on a lack of knowledge about the English language or is this itself an example for how a statement made by a climate scientist is twisted in bad faith, for the purpose to deliberately deceive the public?

How can the public interest be served when the public is being deceived by those with the power and duty to act on this matter?

The ABA cites the conclusion of the San Diego County Bar Association's Legal Ethics Corner to explain that using the singular «law office» is safer: «The ultimate question is whether the lawyer's use of the plural «offices» is likely to deceive, confuse or mislead the public by implying the lawyer is in practice with additional attorneys.»

On the cheating charges, the trial judge concluded horseracing is not a game within the meaning of s. 197 of the Criminal Code, the betting public was too remote from Mr. Riesberry's act of cheating, and the betting public was not deceived by his cheating because there was no evidence that anybody placed any bet in reliance or non-reliance on the fact the horse may have been injected with a performance - enhancing drug.

I hate it when lawyers try and deceive the general public by sticking to the correct language that defines these commercial activities and then suggests that people to not have a right to use or travel on the public roadways without permission.

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rod whiskey (1881) · Intentional deceit (1961) · Irresponsible Members (1969) · Irresponsible reply (1962) · Joker in this House (1960) · Kangaroo court (1960) · Lacking in intelligence (1934) · Lie (1959) · Lies (1976) · Living politically by deceit (1899) · Members have aligned themselves with the murderers in Quebec (1970) · Mislead (1958) · Misleading the public (1960) · Misrepresenting his constituency (1909) · Nazi (1962) · Nefarious (1960) · Not telling the complete truth (1964) · Not telling the truth (1960) · Obstruct the operation of government (1957) · Obstructionist (1961) · Offensive (1964) · Pompous Ass (1967) · Reneged promises (1962) · Scarcely entitled to be called gentlemen (1876) · Scurrilous (1961) · Seeking cheap notoriety (1919) · Shameful conduct (1960) · Sick animal (1966) · Silly reason (1961) · Sitting for his constituency by the grace of the leader of the Government (1884) · Slanderous accusations (1960) · Small and cheap (1960) · Stealing (1960) · Stooping to pretty low motives (1956) · Talking twaddle (1898) · The political sewer pipe from Carleton County (1917) · Theft (1960) · To hell with Parliament attitude (1961) · Trained seal (1961) · Treason (1957) · Trickery (1959) · Underhanded (1961) · Untrue statement (1961) · Violated his oath (1967) · Wilfully misled (1970)

Beware of sites that contain official - sounding terms but no State Seal, such as «stateofflorida,» «dmv,» or «dots,» as many of these sites are run by private traffic schools that wish to deceive the public into thinking they are somehow affiliated with a state regulatory agency.

In that case, the FTC complained that Facebook «deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public,» which sounds startlingly similar to the details of the Cambridge Analytica case.

Facebook agreed then to settle the commission's charges that it deceived users by assuring them their information would remain private, then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public.

In 2012, for example, Facebook settled with the FTC over charges it had deceived users by «telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public».

The original decree was made as a settlement to an inquiry at the time into how Facebook — then just a startup but growing wildly fast — «deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public,» and it arose specifically in relation to how third - party apps were able to use and access this data.

There's nothing like a pissed - off consumer who has been deceived by a commissioned salesperson (resulting in a financial loss) to get the public - education ball rolling.