Sentences with phrase «dissemble about»

There are rewards for politicians, corporations, think tanks, and activists who dissemble about risk.

about Why Does New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson Continue to Dissemble About New Rochelle, ICLEI and the United Nations?

In just a few months, we have learned that Flynn lied to Mike Pence, Vice President - elect, about obtaining a security clearance for Flynn's son during the presidential transition; that during the same period, as President Obama was imposing sanctions on Russia for election meddling, Flynn communicated with the Russian ambassador about those sanctions, hinting that President Trump would take a softer line, and then lied to Pence about it (and stood by while Pence publicly repeated that lie); that Flynn was not truthful when questioned by the FBI about the same topic; and that Flynn spoke at a gala for RT, the Kremlin - backed propaganda network and received payments from RT, but dissembled about the source of the payments and seems to have failed to follow U.S. regulations about reporting them.

The opposition to these policies may say that the pro-loan forgiveness side «dissembled about the cost» according to the Wall Street Journal.

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All the talk about the limited and completely voluntary nature of the right now appear as so much dissembling.

Lear marvels that so much of what passes for commentary on Socratic irony in Plato's dialogues has to do exclusively with the question of whether Socrates dissembles, whether he wears a mask of unknowing behind which lurks either certainty about important matters or skepticism, perhaps even nihilism.

He cared passionately about the reputation of the Church, but did not understand how practices once thought judicious are now ammunition for destroying that reputation in a new world where confidentiality is condemned as secrecy and discretion as dissembling.

It is more than the sum of perspectives, this is, building more than the algebraic sum of the parts that make it up, a wholeness that we can not totally understand, and that does not need to be understood to be (thus the dissembled, it is like not watching a complete movie and yet knowing what it is about).

If folk are serious about ignorage, this thing is the first one to ignore, as there is ample record of the dissembling, lies, and mendacicization of this spam bot.

And of course none of this is about psychology in the sense of a disordered thought process by «deniers» rather it is about the appearance of disordered thoughts and outright dishonesty by the AGW lobby to a large portion of the community who recognize a pattern of arrogance, dissembling, abuse and contempt for others who express alternate views that screams abuse of process, fit up and generally bearing false witness.