"False pretenses" refers to a situation where someone deliberately lies or misrepresents themselves in order to deceive or trick others into believing something that is not true.
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I spent altogether too much time on political sites, arguing with these supporters, especially of the thistle - headed ignoramus who got elected
under false pretenses by morons.
He sued her on the grounds
of false pretenses, for not telling him about the plastic surgery and duping him into thinking she was beautiful, which brings up some interesting questions.
It therefore found that Simonoff and his broker had not
used false pretenses when obtaining the credit reports.
-- St. Thomas Aquinas We as academicians are «lovers of wisdom» first and last, and should we not be so, we would be serving under
false pretenses as professors of....
That Vanity Fair article mentioned by KI also described how Macchiarini had seduced a producer for NBC News under
false pretenses while the outlet was preparing a special about his work.
There's nothing worse than impressing your potential employer
with false pretenses as a professional.
The whistleblower who publicly revealed how Trump - affiliated data firm Cambridge Analytica used information mined from Facebook under
false pretenses during the 2016 election cycle will give an interview to Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee as part of their investigation of Russian interference in the election, including possible ties to Donald Trump's campaign.
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through false pretenses but when their lies catch up with them they are forced to take a good look at their
So it seems that the WF has been accepting tax - deductable donations under
false pretenses for several years.
last time we have some phony claiming a mission from God we got into two wars, one under
false pretenses costing thousands of american lives, the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression and the most divided this country has ever been.
I've always of the opinion that God gave the 10 commandments as part of his salvation plan to reduce fuzziness in man's thinking; no more ambiguity, no
more false pretenses, bring the most self - righteous to acknowledge their depravity to prepare them for the coming of the Savior.
UPPER WEST SIDE — Hundreds of community members and elected leaders accused city officials of rushing controversial emergency homeless shelters into West 95th Street under
false pretenses at a meeting Wednesday.
Forget that America went to war with Iraq under
false pretenses concerning non-existent «weapons of mass destruction,» or that the Big Oil interests that pushed for Bush Junior's invasion of Iraq led Americans to believe that the Iraq War was directly linked to avenging the perpetrators of 9/11.
She stops at a lighthouse and comes across a young British guy sleeping there, having traveled to the US under
somewhat false pretenses and found himself without a place to stay.
On the other hand, the more you «sell» it with
false pretenses like «BESTSELLER», the more critically and harshly they will read (higher expectations are harder to meet) so you'll get less positive reviews and shares.
With her husband Bernard two years in the grave, seventy - nine - year - old Harriet Chance sets sail on an ill - conceived Alaskan cruise only to discover that she's been living the past sixty years of her life under
entirely false pretenses.
According to the charging document, Darnell Earley conspired with Gerald Ambrose and others to «enter into a contract based
upon false pretenses [that required] Flint to utilize the Flint River as its drinking water source knowing that the Flint Water Treatment Plant... was unable to produce safe water.»
Instead, it turns out that they were raised in battery cages and sold to Britain's biggest supermarkets under
false pretenses over an 18 month period.
♫ Baby no need for
false pretenses Baby just shock me to my senses Everything that you do feels right... ♫
Most of the people who try to get an animal into one of my rental units under
false pretenses back off quickly after I let them know the process that we require.
A partnership between The Observer and the New York Times, and in collaboration with a whistleblower and former Cambridge Analytica employee unveiled a revelatory amount of information; most significantly that Facebook sold and willingly participated in the extraction of information for years, even though CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims that this was done
on false pretenses.
Here, the goals are set before entering into a relationship, so there is no question
of false pretenses.
They go in there primarily to sell, market and promote... and for the most part, don't mind
using false pretenses to hide the fact.
The whistleblower who publicly revealed how Trump - affiliated data firm Cambridge Analytica used information mined from Facebook under
false pretenses during the 2016 election cycle will give an interview to Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee as part of their investigation of Russian interference in the election, including possible ties to Donald Trump's campaign.
The second is an unnamed man masquerading under
false pretenses as a teacher who is intent on bringing the school to ruin The third voice belongs to a young adolescent boy thirteen years in the past who, as the son of St Oswald's caretaker but destined to attend the scruffy local state school, finds himself drawn to the august corridors of St Oswald's.
It doesn't completely pull the wool over your eyes
with false pretenses, but it's not a scratchy and tinny budget special.
While the allegations of REALTOR's attempting to show a FSBO property
under false pretenses in that case may or may not have been true, just the fact that a consumer would hold such an impression is unacceptable.
Don't shoehorn in your opinions under
false pretenses.
You trick me into an interview under
false pretenses,» he tells the interviewers.
wo former corporate private eyes have accused GlaxoSmithKline of hiring them under
false pretenses to investigate a whistleblower in China and that the move led to their imprisonment, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
A year and change after the car maker pleaded guilty to obstructing investigations and importing cars under
false pretenses, Volkswagen's former CEO Martin Winterkorn has been charged with conspirac
If these exchanges lack appropriate KYC protocols or operate under
false pretenses, then the credit card company might struggle to reverse fraudulent transactions.
But clearly there are significant issues in the sector and more companies could prove to be operating under
false pretenses.
however, * by * his own Church's standards, it would have ultimately been dehumanizing for her if she received communion on
false pretenses.
Working under what he acknowledges were
false pretenses, he was a well - paid writer for the religious right until the end of 1991 when he decided to tell the world that those whom he had served for decades are in fact promoting a program comparable to that of Hitler and the Third Reich.
The agreement was entered into under
false pretenses and with great malice as during the last year they have done everything possible to continue the manipulation of the judicial system in an effort to stall or delay its finalization.
They've all been charged with felony charges of
false pretenses and conspiracy to commit false pretenses — charges with prison sentences of up to 20 years, fines or both.
This post-modern enterprise is unmasking
the false pretenses of modern thinkers.
George W also thought he was following his God when he brought America into the Iraq war under
false pretenses.