Sentences with phrase «rather than telling the truth»

Instead, you may disrupt the flow of the interview and force the candidate to try to consider the answer you want to hear, rather than telling the truth.

The truth is, I will almost always be «nice» rather than tell the truth, at least until I'm ready to explode.

You lie and say that you are going out with your boyfriend or girlfriend, but the truth is you're just like the other single men and single women who have absolutely nothing going on; and rather than telling the truth, you make up some excuse.

Is Goodling taking the Fifth because if she testifies under oath she would lie and face perjury charges rather than tell the truth?

Not exact matches

Rather than assuming suppliers are telling the truth or being ambivalent over the difficulty of verifying claims, product producers and suppliers would do well to acknowledge just how limited their quality - control reach really is.

It often seems as the «share» the details of this relationship that Jesus is more like a child's imaginary friend who is always on their side when any conflict occurs with others rather than the Jesus who loved people enough to tell them, without accusing or withdrawing affection, the hard truths they needed to know to encourge them to make more meaningful choices.

He's still a believer and a christian, so perhaps his telling the truth is indicative of reality rather than a consequence of his experiment, but I can see why a christian would leap to judgment in such a case as this.

Unfortunately, I think Rachel's plea to pastors to tell the truth is a naive gesture, one that assumes that Christians find their sense of community in the waters of baptism rather than their shared ideas.

Unlike Hollywood, the Christian media does have a spiritual directive to tell the whole truth, rather than alter a story to fit the preferences of an intended audience.

I get that people who tell me verses do it because they believe the truth of them, and truth matters, but when I read some of the posts, they just seem to want to prove a point rather than provide hope.

Truth be told... others would call me critical, and negative and cynical, but my heart bursts for the church, I just wish leaders would realize how mistaken we have been to treat the church so much like an organization and a business rather than allowing it to grow and be nurtured as we would a child!

You people must actually seek for truth rather than believe what you told from someone whom you neither know or should trust.

More than that: if anyone had told me that Christ is outside truth, and if it had really been established that truth is outside Christ, I should have preferred to stay with Christ rather than with truth.

For me, probably the most compelling evidence to the truth of Christianity is that the Bible tells us of men who died rather than deny it.

Why should one tell the truth rather than lie?

Ray I agree with you 100 % and more Pat roberson is a confuse old man who will not give up power to his son, poor billy can not remenber, and his son is in charge, if Billy son and all the born again christians vote for a cult may God help then, do you want a mornan President in the White hous with 4 Wives, and worship a man name Joseph Smith, rather than Jesus Christ, Pat Roberson need to tell his listeners the truth about cults.

It's more of an attack because it was Obama's plan (which he stole from Romney truth be told), rather than an attack against whether or not this approach makes sense.

Truth be told, if Arsenal fail to retain its best players and fail in the transfer market yet again, Arsenal missing out on Champions League football is very likely to be a regular occurence rather than a «one - off» like David seems to believe.

Explain to your tween that you would rather know the truth than being told a lie.

So rather than fudge and fib about how you're feeling when you're told you look tired, or pale, you decide now is time to tell the truth.

Young kids only lie because they're trying to make their parents happy, so by telling your child that the truth will make you happy, you're challenging the original thought that hearing good news (rather than the truth) will please you.

But rather than be honest about my decision to put my boobs back in my blouse and keep them there, when people asked why I wasn't breastfeeding, I told them a half - truth.

Which is nice — I mean I'll tell you the truth, I'd rather relax and visit with adults than entertain the kids.

«They have, since 2008, tried without success, and one would have hoped that they would have learnt their lessons by sticking to the facts and telling the truth, rather than propagating falsehoods.»

If anything can convince like minded voters that it is in their interests to vote Conservative rather than UKIP, it is the sight of the likes of Daniel Hannan telling Brown a few home truths!

President Buhari was quoted to have told Adesina that he rather be told the bitter truth than be placated with lies.

What we can say is that there a huge gap in the political market for politicians who can tell a story that combines a lot of truth with at least a little hope — and that most of us will hope that this gap will eventually be filled from within Britain's political mainstream rather than outside it.

What we do in our lab is we unearth truth on a lot of work for dealers and collectors and auction houses, and I tell you, I often feel like the opposite of Antiques Roadshow, because so often we have to get people the bad news about their objects rather than the good news.

This tells us that the neurons» responses were based on the subjective, perceived judgments that the patients made rather than on the «ground truth» of the emotion shown in the stimulus.»

When they asked people to role - play as deceivers and deceivees, the researchers discovered that participants felt better about paltering rather than lying by commission; they thought their actions were more ethical because they were technically telling the truth.

Skin care companies work hard to please their customers but truth be told, most seem to focus on marketing rather than developing a good enough formula.

Always classic, although to tell you the truth, I think you'd been better served with a taupe, rather than black shoe.

AND the person you're telling would much rather hear the truth now than be led on only to find out their affections aren't returned a ways down the road.

Lets see without trying to sound like everything else you will read... I am a genuine soul who is open to all possibilities... I believe the most important thing in any relationship romantic or not is HONESTY... I would rather have you be mad at me for telling the truth than lying to you... a persons...

Claim 2 Fame: I tell people the truth rather than what's popular Frequency about 1 post per month.

Truth be told, the film isn't that bad, and if it had been directed by an unknown rather than a controversial media icon, it might have been more charitably dismissed as an ambitious failure.

Interestingly rather than telling NBC news the truth, the whole truth and nothing be the truth, the spokesperson for Governor Malloy's Department of Education and the paid lobbyist for one of Connecticut's Corporate Education Reform Industry groups decided that they would intentionally mislead the mother, NBC news and the people of Connecticut into thinking the mom did not have the right to opt her child out of the Common Core SBAC Test.

Steve truly knows his stuff and it's refreshing to hear someone tell the truth about what's realistic to expect rather than selling a bunch of hyped up promises and then blaming the student when the false promises don't materialize.

Be honest about any setbacks — if you're in charge of investing and a stock has just plummeted, it's better to tell the truth now rather than wait and hope for a rebound.

Instead, they tell you 1) that women don't REALLY know what they want and it's your job to MAKE THEM SEE what they really want and 2) what is most important is the end goal of dating and sleeping with a woman rather than treating her like a person, so lying or obscuring the truth is perfectly okay.

Truth be told, most of my love for Trails of Cold Steel comes from the narrative rather than the gameplay, though that isn't to say the latter isn't enjoyable.

Truth be told, we'd rather a stable game with few options, than a buggy game with lots of options.

To tell the truth, I'd rather not having all those awesome cool graphics and that open world thingy than incomplete messy story.

Black Flag was a simple port of the previous generation version and was more a pirate simulator if truth be told, and Unity's co-op gameplay took something away from the series rather than add — it was also riddled with bugs, which didn't help.

Tell the truth, I'd rather sit at the counter of a small crossroads cafe and listen to the locals discuss affairs than go to BarCamp and listen to a hundred Ruby - On - Rails scalability apologists.

«But the relentless focus by activist scientists on the Arctic decline does suggest a political imperative rather than a scientific one — and when put together with the story of the US temperature records, it's hard to avoid the impression that what the public is being told is less than the unvarnished truth»

Those who have looked closely at what the scientists are concluding believe that the truth is so frightening that, if told, it will immobilise people and stop them from acting rather than stimulating them to do more.

Rather than just, like a lot of magazines and publications do, pound the pavement and try and sell as much display advertising as we possibly can, we tend to approach folks and potential clients, with the idea of saying, «Yes, we can run an ad for you, but, truth be told, we want to tell your story.»

The majority of the court allowed the appeal, set aside the acquittal, and directed a new trial with a requirement that the complainant only need to «promise» to tell the truth rather than demonstrate an understanding of the duty to tell the truth.

The nicotine test ensures that the individual is telling the truth about cigar usage and that he or she is an occasional smoker rather than a regular smoker.