Sentences with phrase «of deceiving the public»

People accuse it of changing the election results and of deceiving the public.

On July 14, anti-abortion activists with a long record of deceiving the public released their latest campaign — the latest in a seven - year string of false bills of goods they seek to sell to the media and the public.

That's why we are fighting back hard and calling this what it is: part of a decade - long campaign of deceiving the public, making false charges, and terrorizing women and their doctors — all in order to ban abortion and prevent women from accessing care at Planned Parenthood.

Nothing is more important to us than the health and safety of our patients, which is why we are fighting back hard and calling this what it is — part of a decade - long campaign of deceiving the public, making false charges, and terrorizing women and their doctors, all in order to ban abortion and cut women off from care at Planned Parenthood,» said Eric Ferrero, Vice President for Communications at Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

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.

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.

Evidence uncovered in the recent tobacco litigation demonstrates that the tobacco companies deliberately deceived the public into believing that their products were safe and non-addictive while conspiring to keep the industry's knowledge to the contrary secret, manipulated the nicotine delivery of their products to better addict consumers, and targeted children in their advertising campaigns.

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.

You make accusations of fear mongering and deliberately deceiving the public in order to have an otherwise unjustified war.

Quite apart from the preceding theological considerations (and even if one should disagree with these), the representatives of the church deceive the public if they lay claim to an expertise (political, economic or what - have - you) which in fact they do not possess.

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.

And the movement there seems to have already progressed to levels of co-option and greenwashing that we are just beginning to get glimmers of, and once again, our smallness will serve us well in combating those who would deceive the ever - awakening public who want a fair food system.

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.

Mr. Nketia said: «The reason why we are calling for the arrest of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is that — I am not a lawyer — but I have heard people say that if you falsify public documents with the intention of deceiving people, our laws should have a way of dealing with you.»

A High Court in Accra, in August this year found the Bawku Central MP guilty of false declaration of office, perjury and deceiving a public officer.

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...

He found her actions to have been «unwise and unfortunate» but that «there was no intention on her part to deceive or manipulate the public, nor had that been the effect of her actions».

Last week, unethical and unproductive media houses sympathetic to Akufo - Addo such as Joy FM, Citi FM, Peace FM, Adom FM and others under the Multimedia and Despite Group, published this falsely «contrived» Polls with the sole intent of deceiving the unsuspecting Public and dissatisfied financiers of the NPP, without making any shred of effort to authenticate the veracity or otherwise of this «voodoo» polls.

What kind of attorney advises a town board to deceive the public?

«The reason why we are calling for the arrest of Mahamudu Bawumia is that, I am not a lawyer, but i have heard people say that if you fabricate public document, if you falsify public document with the intention of deceiving people, our laws should have a way of dealing with you.

The Municipal Chief Executive for Wa Central, Hon Isaahaque Nuhu Putiaha has revealed in an interview with GhanaPoliticsonline.Com, that the Npp is made up of «Confused Elements» who are bent on deceiving the public for Cheap political points.

He deceives the public, he bullies — his administration has been one of the most secretive in history, evading the Freedom of Information law.

«Successive governments of Nigeria have continued to deceive the gullible public that the reason we, IPOB, are agitating for Biafra is because of oil in the Niger Delta region, without making obvious the fact that oil was first found in commercial quantity in Imo State before Oloibiri in Bayelsa State.

The actress and musician who was criticized heavily for deceiving the public and the government that she was a carrier of the HIV / AIDS virus has given birth to a bouncing baby boy.

Mr. Cuomo's behavior, including deceiving the public as to the workings of the Commission, falls far short of the minimum ethical standards for the highest elected official in our state.

Schumer, D - N.Y., asked for the public's help in October 2015 to help prove his case that wireless phone companies are deceiving consumers about the extent of their coverage in Upstate New York.

«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.

Of particular interest is the fabricated Togolese register which the NPP used in its deliberate attempt to deceive the Ghanaian public.

The reason why we are calling for the arrest of Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is that if you falsify public documents with the intentions of deceiving people, our laws should have a way of dealing with you?.

In particular, we urge the security agencies to invite Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia for questioning on the basis that he engaged in falsification and fabrication of public records to deceive public officials.

She said the Commission will «refer the matter of the possible forgeries of these signatures to the Ghana Police Service and the Attorney General for investigation and prosecution in line with the following sections of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29): Section 211: Perjury Section 248: making false declaration etc. for office or voting; Section 251: Deceiving a public officer Section 256: Corruption, Intimidation and impersonation in respect of election.»

«Mr. Cuomo's behavior, including deceiving the public as to the workings of the Commission, falls far short of the minimum ethical standards for the highest elected official in our state,» Hawkins said.

He described those holding such view as ignorant of the history of the struggle to liberate their people from the marginalization of the Nigerian government and warned them to stop deceiving the public.

«Many of these providers falsely claim that they are attorneys or have close connections with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, oftentimes using titles such as notary - public or «notario» to deceive people into believing that they are legitimate,» continues the release.

Earmarks would virtually become a «thing of the past» so no longer delay the passage of bills, or their overnight insertion demand the revisiting of bills once passed to undo the overnight insertions that are best defined as dirty tricks designed to deceive other members of Congress and the public.

According to him, this erroneous belief has deceived the public and some reputable Yoruba leaders into believing that the State Governor is capable of protecting the interest of the Yoruba nation like the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo whereas the reverse is the case.

Fifth, vested corporate interests have mastered the dark arts of propaganda, and they can use their deep pockets to purchase a sea of deliberate misinformation to deceive the public.

Louis Pasteur's laboratory notebooks reveal that the famous French chemist deliberately deceived his colleagues and the public in some of his most celebrated experiments, according to Gerald Geison, a historian at Princeton University in New Jersey.

Although Monsanto has long insisted that their product is harmless to humans, newly released documents related to the lawsuit reveal that the company has long been aware of glyphosate's toxicity — and suppressed research, bribed scientists and even suborned perjury in an attempt to deceive the public.

Marlene Schwartz, deputy director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University shows in the HBO documentary «The Weight of the Nation» how the marketing industry along with the FOOD industry are DECEIVING the public.

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.

In a steady stream of lyric commentary, he paints a grotesque picture of today's interlocking power blocs dedicated to enriching themselves and deceiving 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.»

The sponsors of the bill will trot out well - compensated salespeople who'll deceive the public with misleading names for vouchers, like «scholarships,» which implies individualized, merit - based determinations.

Sometimes state officials chose to deceive the public in outright defiance of the expressed will of the legislature to revise or eliminate Common Core's standards.

The following are a list of just some of the popular ploys that have been used to deceive the public:

We'll start with the fact that there is [sic] essentially four kinds of penny stock companies in the Pump & Dump world: (1) the kind where the management is in on the scam and is directly knowledgeable and complicit with the intent to deceive the public; (2) the kind where some poor schmoe has a great idea (at least he thinks it is) that requires financing, and becomes the mark of a parasitic «funder» who makes all kinds of promises of unlimited monies and riches beyond the mark's wildest dream; (3) the kind where the company is absolutely for real but the shares have been hyped (sometimes hijacked) into ridiculous valuations; and, (4) a hijacked empty and inactive shell.

In fact, we find ourselves a bit perturbed that some of the websites listed on the first page of Google search returns and on Facebook fan pages continue to deceive the public and misrepresent the breed.

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.