Sentences with phrase «of false pretenses»

Therein the weight of authority is that astrologers, conjurers, fakirs, magicians, mediums, and all variety of pretenders to supernatural power, and who assume to sell the same for money, are amenable to the criminal law of false pretenses.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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 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.

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.

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.

Theists & organized religions ruin everything with their false moral pretenses & their false senses of superiority & righteousness.

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.

We are helped by confession to another when we are relieved of the false pride, the pretenses, the defensive shells which keep us from living our lives in freedom.

-- 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....

Please note that there are risks, including but not limited to the risk of physical harm, that may arise when dealing with strangers, including persons who may be acting under false pretenses.

Some doughnut purists might argue that these indulgent glazed chocolate banana doughnuts are not in fact really doughnuts at all, but instead a version of chocolate cake, baked in ring - shaped cake molds, masquerading under false pretenses.

See if this sounds familiar: He got all of us into this no - win situation under false pretenses.

Gazidis is a hack... he will never get another substantive job in this sport unless Kroenke is the owner... enough of dealing with the amateurs, anybody who believes that this man has any real say in the day - to - day operations of Arsene Inc. hasn't followed this club very closely... in fact I used to empathize with him; who would come out and make some of the statements he has, especially regarding our financial capabilities, unless he was instructed to do so under false pretenses... let's face it, if that wasn't the case, he would have been thrown to the wolves long ago... on the other hand, if he did know and public deception was well within his job description, he's truly a piece of shit

if the Ox was played to either showcase his skills or to increase any potential bids because of his perceived importance to our starting 11, this was an incredibly risky move that could have cost us dearly... imagine if he was injured or played poorly, like he did, and this negatively impacted our ability to get the best available deal... more importantly, why was Wenger willing to play someone who obviously wants out in such an important game under false pretenses... this kind of behaviour might be less offensive in April, when things are done and dusted, but to do this following a loss against a supposed main rival that pipped us for fourth by a point last year, could be considered at best inappropriate and at worst treasonous... we can't afford to let this coach make business decisions on game day, which has gone on for far too long

But I have come to believe that in the vast majority of cases, the reason people are running from the hospital is that NCB has taught them to under false pretenses.

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

«Instead, Andrew Cuomo has let a divisive debate go on for weeks while the developers of the Cordoba Ground Zero Mosque have been operating under false pretenses.

The Ghanaian businessman had been acquitted and discharged by the high court and the court of appeal on the charges of defrauding the state by false pretenses and causing financial loss to the state.

Albany County Judge Peter Lynch determined Mazzeo, 58, of Guilderland, violated his probation in what the judge described as a «scheme to defraud and to steal money by false pretenses» in Mazzeo's newest case.

The entirety of Dr. Mercolas argument relies on animal studies, false pretenses and skewed data.

The pros of such an arrangement are that all the members know what they want, so there are no false pretenses or games played here.

I was more entranced with the fine lines both moles had to walk — the moral complications, the fear of death and discovery and the hope to be accepted by a loved one under false pretenses.

In a subplot that goes nowhere, at least nowhere interesting, Norah, under false pretenses, befriends a woman (Mary Lynn Rajskub) whose mother was a victim in one of the crime scene mop - ups.

WHAT: After leaving the jungles of Africa to assume his rightful position as British aristocrat John Clayton III alongside his wife Jane (Margot Robbie), the man formerly known as Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) is lured back to the Congo under false pretenses.

Under a new identity, he becomes a mayor and the owner of a rosary factory, but a visit by an unsuspecting Javert distracts Valjean while poor Fantine (Anne Hathaway) is fired under false pretenses.

-- Skurge is Hela's champion, but he follows her under false pretenses, and turns against her when he finds out what her true plans are, holding off her armies alone at the cost of his own life to give Thor a chance

Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candie's trusted house slave.

Reciting a long list of criminal offenses for participating in a «marriage of convenience,» the government employee cautions the duo about tying the knot under false pretenses.

Their war of words over the wire escalates until Brad spots Jan in a nightclub; impressed by her beauty, he sets about wooing her under false pretenses by pretending to be a hayseed from Texas.

This is despite the welcome return of Sam Neill's Alan Grant, with the affable character convinced to return to the dino - infested island under false pretenses and eventually forced to once again fight for his life.

Each of these characters is satisfactorily developed, but we get to know Dave best, as he starts up a romance with a college girl (Robyn Douglass) under false pretenses, calling himself an Italian exchange student named Enrico Gimondi (after a fictional opera singer).

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.

We did that to ourselves with the assault on personal liberties called the Patriot Act, and our waging of war in the Middle East on false pretenses.

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.

And so he made a standing offer of ten thousand U.S. dollars to our table of foreign teachers for anyone willing to travel to the mainland, marry the woman under false pretenses and bring her to Taiwan.

Credit fraud — which amounts to obtaining credit under false pretenses through misrepresentation — costs the banking industry tens of billions of dollars a year.

Knowing and willfully obtaining information under false pretenses is subject to a fine of up to $ 5,000 or imprisonment for up to one year, or both.

In January of this year, two PETA employees, fully backed by PETAâ $ ™ s Newkirk and a highly - paid legal team, stood trial on 24 felony counts, including 21 counts of animal cruelty and obtaining property under false pretenses (lying to the shelters PETA adopted dogs and cats from, then euthanizing the animals rather then finding homes for them.)

Given that PETA has a history of committing larceny, a history of getting animals under false pretenses, a history of lying to people who surrender their animals, and a history of underreporting killing, there is simply no reason to trust its reporting to VDACS.

It should be televised just like Hussein's hanging and we can all show the same mercy on Bush that he did on the 152 deathrow inmates he executed without one inkling of remorse, not to mention the 4000 American's he sent to death under false pretenses, not to mention the people mentioned in this article likely to bear the worst consequence of global warming.

What I wrote then is far more relevant now with the saga of Peter Gleick, the water and climate analyst and writer who has admitted to obtaining climate and financial documents from the anti-regulatory Heartland Institute under false pretenses (Heartland has posted what it says are the e-mail exchanges).

18 U.S.C. § 1343 provides: «Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.»

Not talking about indicting for the purpose of punishment but for exposing the lies advanced for the purposes of acquiring power and control over the populace under false pretenses.

From the PRweb service, proof that Peter Gleick might have made a dent with his theft of documents under false pretenses, but he sure didn't stop the effort.

Gleick acknowledges that he, an outside critic of the organization, solicited and received Heartland documents under false pretenses, an action he describes as a «serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics.»

They eroded your constitutional rights, expanded the power of the wealthy elite, invaded countries under false pretenses, destroyed diplomatic relations with the rest of the world, and spent money like it was going out of style.

Terry McAuliffe was pushing the fledgling global flooding ideology out of a cleverly named unisex - clothing shop called Hang - Ups, in a converted African American Church, acquired under false pretenses and wittily christened THE ARK, on South Patrick Street, in Alexandria, Virginia.

He had also pleaded guilty last month in state court to five counts of inducing a mortgage lender to part with property by false pretenses, allegedly as part of a scheme organized by Seymour.