Sentences with phrase «telling untruths»

Umunna's intervention came after Viviane Reding, vice-president of the European commission in charge of justice, accused British ministers of telling untruths about the number of EU citizens claiming benefits in the UK.

Applying the spirit of our national Constitution, this ethical rule can be interpreted to include the situation where a political office holder under Article 55 or a public officer under Article 284 of the 1992 Constitution puts himself in a situation where his personal interest in telling untruths, half - truth and out - right lies is in conflict with the functions of his office to the party and the public to speak the truth at all times.

and we would only have to feed him bananas instead of crazy money for telling untruths day in day out.

Trump spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway went on NBC on Sunday and maintained that Spicer was not telling untruths about the inauguration — he was simply presenting «alternative facts.»

All children tell untruths at times, often to protect themselves from punishment; some children have spells of telling wild stories which are simply fantasies; many children sometimes take something they shouldn't.

On the contrary, as Beck details, children could often be induced to tell untruths about sex abuse.

Facts, though, are of little value to demagogues intent on stirring up emotions; better to repeat street myths and factoids, to use opinion masquerading as fact, to tell untruths and to exploit innuendo.

In the legal profession to which I belong (now as an unlicensed non practicing lawyer) it is punishable misconduct to tell untruths and half - truths as an officer of the court or in one's private dealings with members of the public.

They broke promises and told untruths, but the basic decency of each man was never in doubt.

Unfortunately that's the point and the problem — Monckton knows that he can effectively tell untruths since he is relying on a lack of knowledge on the part of the general reader.

That may be because lying triggers emotional arousal and activates the amygdala, but with each additional lie, the arousal and conflict of telling an untruth diminishes, making it easier to lie.

Unfortunately that's the point and the problem — Monckton knows that he can effectively tell untruths since he is relying on a lack of knowledge on the part of the general reader.

show that amodel was used I disputed the main premises in the paper but the posts from you AGW desciples accuse me of not understanding how science advances and telling an untruth.

perjury is «the offence of willfully telling an untruth or making a misrepresentation under oath».

Without going to specific jurisdictions perjury is «the offence of willfully telling an untruth or making a misrepresentation under oath».

So assuming that all the facts are as described, the only «private fact» that X could sue about are the fact that X told the untruth about you.

All in all, he was an exasperating witness who told untruths too numerous to catalogue and insulting in their breadth.

(Some don't, and thereby can involve you in telling an untruth about your experience, if they word - spin to get a match and thereby introduce inaccuracies.)

Rather than appreciating his remarkable patience and support while mother was attacking him, mother told untruths about both her behavior and her husband's behavior.»

Not exact matches

It is not unusual for a president's staff to tell reporters to focus on some facts and not others, but things are qualitatively different now in the Trump administration compared to that of his predecessors Barack Obama and George W. Bush in terms of «the number of untruths,» said the Times «David Leonhardt.

Religious people tell way too many untruths and fallacies to be trusted.

More reputable people may then tell similar untruths: some confused, or misremembering, or misguided, or mobilized by the media, or browbeaten by enthusiastic police or prosecutors or therapists; others opportunists who see little risk and lots of upside in a venture that someone else has boldly opened.

People who tell a lie often have to tell more lies to cover up the original untruth.

She also boldly accused Leadsom of telling «a blatant untruth» about how many UK laws are made in Europe.

Mr Klutse Avedzi, however, told Ekow Mensah - Shalders on Class91.3 FM's Executive Breakfast Show that Dr Bawumia peddled «untruths.»

But the leader of the GFP in denial of the story making rounds in the media said:» the person behind this mischief would be drowned for peddling such untruth about me; some people don't respect at all, hence the curses will serve as a deterrent to them,» Akua Donkor told a local Journalist in the Brong Ahafo region.

In a disturbing echo of Ukip's last party political broadcast, which told numerous untruths about Turkey, Gove asserted that 77 million Turkish Muslim citizens would soon be using the NHS, and Albanian criminals were about to flood Britain.

So they will not have been pleased to hear what David Cameron had to say yesterday: «The context of the by - election is that the MP elected at the election has been found in court to have told complete untruths about his opponent... In that context, we wish our partners well.

As people tell more and bigger untruths, certain brain areas respond less to the whoppers, scientists now show.

Some untruths, like the one he tells Clara, he even believes himself.

Her refusal to answer a question out loud with an untruth because you TELL lies - perfect!

Also, if the lender tells a borrower that any of the discounts mentioned above are special deals offered just for them, then this is also an untruth.

Extensive research and undercover investigations across multiple states have helped the Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS) expose the horrific conditions that exist in puppy mills — and uncover untruths told to customers when inquiring about the origin of a pet store's puppies.

Don't get sucked in by the headline that tells you that you can book travel though 6 September 2016... it's not an untruth but a lot of the good hotels I checked don't go anywhere near that deep into 2016.

So, are you going to tell all of the schoolchildren exposed to «A Convenient Untruth» that the hockey stick was actually dead, just animated through a cartoon?

One wonders if this evidence of a sustained and deliberate effort to evade the FOIA involving telling deliberate untruths might mean the UEA actions fall under different laws?

did tell a knowing untruth about Latimer.

On September 1, Klum's rep told Us Weekly: «It is sad that Seal has to resort to this kind of behavior and spread these untruths about the mother of his children.»