Sentences with phrase «through deceit»

The public benefit gained by the criminalization of witchcraft is minimal given that section 380 of the Code exists and offers more flexibility to prosecutors as a hybrid offense that addresses the loss of property or money through deceit, falsehood, or other fraudulent means.

Lawyers of our Civil Fraud Recovery Group have experience with these industries, and are intimately familiar with the complicated legal regime that regulates fraud prosecutions and civil actions to recover assets or money lost through deceit.

Due to being a rare type of dog, this often means that they're a target for unscrupulous sellers to make larger profits through deceit, neglect and greed.

It shows a friend pushing his other to the breaking point through deceit and selfishness.

Rather than forge connections with the people in their lives, they might try to exploit them for their own benefit through deceit, coercion, and intimidation.

He said the All Progressives Congress (APC) rode to power through deceit, accusing the ruling party of promising to reduce petrol price to N45.

Examples abound: twins, separated at birth, reunite and conceive a superman child before one is killed by his father (Wagner's Die Walküre); a polygamous American seduces and later abandons an Asian girl and their child (Puccini's Madama Butterfly); through deceit, seduction, and murder a prostitute becomes empress of Rome and finds true love (Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea); to prove the inconstancy of feminine love a cynical aristocrat convinces two young lovers to seduce each other's girlfriend (Mozart's Cosi fan tutte).

Iman Husain knew that Mu'awiya held his power over the people through fear and greed, but he could do nothing more than to point out Mu`awiya's evil deeds and to remind the people that he was Caliph only through deceit.

Just when you think you've determined who's in and who's out, Jesus calls a rich tax collector, Levi, to join his inner group, or he invites himself to dine at the home of Zachaeus, whose riches came through deceit and fraud.

Not exact matches

Asking for regular constructive feedback cuts through any self - deceit or one - dimensional views you might hold.

But the Mueller indictment echoes subsequent findings that masses of false or misleading social media activity was engineered by Russia's Internet Research Agency, as part of a plan to «defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the government through fraud and deceit» beginning as early as 2014.

In a press release, then - US Attorney Preet Bharara charged that Amanat cheated investors «of millions of dollars through years of lies and deceit.»

Col 2:8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

It is interpreted through decades of lies and deceit.

Kirk shows that looking at the past through Enlightenment - tinted spectacles has resulted in a lot of wishful thinking, some unrigorous scholarship and some plain deceit.

No, Mel Gibson and his dad are right about Jewish people, they have done everything in the last 300 years to corrupt White Christian Western culture and countries and are at the point where they can make Europeans extinct through there lies and deceit of multi-culturalism and multiracialism, every single even in the past 300 years has been manipulated by Jews in order to take control of the world, and they white christians as being the main obstacle to obtaining that goal.

«Through his cunning He shall cause deceit to prosper under his rule And he shall exalt himself in his heart.

Not only because it is Afro - Americans themselves, especially men, who now inflict these wounds upon themselves — through the ways they betray those who love them and bear their progeny, through the ways they bring up or abandon their children, through the ways they relate, or fail to relate, to each other, through the values and attitudes they cherish and the ones they choose to spurn, through their comforting ethnic myths about their neighborhoods, through their self - indulgences, denials and deceits — but because only they as individual men and women can find the antidote to heal themselves.

He warns the Colossians to «See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe...» This is why pseudo-truth seems plausible: because it is universally accepted and codified in human traditions.

In closing to all my Christian brtheren who read this remember the words of warning given to us about such things in the book of Colossians chapter 2 verse 8: «beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit; after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.»

if you read through the new testament there will be deceit and antichrist like people who have satanic power.

To develop this procedure, Gregory commented upon a powerful metaphor from Ezekiel, who spoke of first digging at a wall until there appeared a door, through which he then went in where he beheld the «abominations,» the hoary characters, the fantasies of deceit.

Is it possible that the word of God might be proclaimed through words that are unclean with our own deceit?

The Intended introduction of a scholarship scheme for SHS one students instead of the promised «Free SHS» for all SHS students, the sale of fertilizers to cocoa farmers who used to get them free under President Mahama and the attempt to legalize corruption, tells a story of a party that got power through lies and deceits.

Of course, they get away with this fraud since the bulk of Nigerians are either too politically naïve or star - stuck to ask questions or see through the repeated veneer of deceit.

Today the term Machiavellian intelligence describes the ability to outwit another person through cunning and deceit.

A COMMON thread of deceit and serious ethical breaches ran through a series of secret radiation experiments carried out on Americans during the Cold War, a US government commission declared last week.

Even if some people would go as far to reason that spending too much time browsing through porn sites constitutes a (slightly dubious) variant of infidelity, the common denominator in all these deeds is deceit, a breach of trust.

Speaking of sincerity, have you noticed how much deceit is running through those profiles?

Col. 2:8 Beware lest any man [by his influence] spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Both Loki and Hela have been impressed through Odin's deceit and abandonment, respectively, whilst Ivan Vanko / Whiplash used to be exacting revenge on Howard Stark for deporting his father.

A surprisingly dark tale that tracked one mutant puppet's journey through a life of hedonism and deceit, Pinocchio still works as a compelling piece of cinema for both adults and children.

And when the deceit at the heart of the plot comes to light, it's revealed not through detective work or a dramatic reversal, but by a guilty young American gunsel (Richard Jordan) who knew it all along — again, in dialogue.

And there is something like the heft of classical mythology in the resolution of their tale: in how the film is nearly a three - hour Mexican standoff between the three as they shuffle through betrayals and deceits and cheats and being horrible to those they love in the name of that love.

Duplicity, manipulation, deceit and action run through this story, keeping you wondering what will happen next and if everyone will survive.

Rain must pursue his most dangerous quarry yet through the crosshairs of the CIA and the Japanese mafia, where the differences between friend and foe and truth and deceit are as murky as the rain - slicked streets of Tokyo.

Making her way through a maze of corruption, deceit, and greed, trusting no one, Stella comes to believe that the search for the truth involves the bleak history of Steelton itself — a history that now endangers her future, and perhaps her life.

Jon Krakauer, who had supported the CAI to the tune of $ 75,000, also questioned Mortenson's accounts and released his allegations in a lengthy article titled Three Cups of Deceit From the Book Jacket The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya.

As Sloan's respect for justice and her growing trust in Paul Richardson battle with the deepest instincts of her heart, she must maneuver through a web of deceit and passion, hope and fear, to decipher the meaning of the images that haunt her nightmares, and the truth behind those terrifying whispers in the dark...

Deposit insurance is only needed when money is created out of debt through fractional reserve banking, and then that debt becomes the basis of more debt - based lending in a vicious cycle of deceit.

Through allegorical representation, my paintings portray shared dramas experienced by humans and animals alike — survival, deceit, wonder, anxiety, aspects of change, and transition.

While there was a certain honor and set of mores among the samurai culture, pre-modern Japan's history was loaded with endless violent conflicts between rival warlords, who used every means possible to win, including deceit, ambush, assassination through poisonings or raids by ninja on sleeping competitors and their families.

Eventually, simply through the establishment of a forum of experts tasked with hearing the alternative evidence, history might record you as courageous, and as having begun a process that ultimately exposed the deceit and bias that now riddles this once most respected and trusted organization.

To commit fraud means to deprive somebody of something by deceit or a falsehood and to induce a state of mind through a specific course of action.