Sentences with phrase «using false promises»

He was able to deliver his constituency to his backers, using false promises and a «golden tongue.»

Not exact matches

If the language we use is communicating false promises to others and obfuscating about the speaker's ongoing struggles with sin, then there is a problem.

Osborne said his newspaper — which he has frequently used as a platform to criticise May — would «expose the false arguments and broken promises of the hard Brexiteers.»

Meanwhile the influence of neuroscience on education continues to mushroom, thanks to «opportunistic marketing» and promises that can not be kept and even, in one prominent case, the fraudulent use of misleading false - color images of brain scans.

Is it possible a doctor with a medical license maybe wants their patients to get evidenced - based treatment, and discourage the use of things that could be harmful by sheer lack of proven effectiveness alone, instead of being sold over-priced, false promises that prey on people desperate for help who often can't afford the cost, but pay it out - of - pocket anyway?

Because you do not have a false sense of security with free online dating, you are probably safer using one of these sites than a paid site that promises to screen people.

I addressed the misuse and overuse of standardized tests, the false promise of better tests, how standardized tests narrow the curriculum, the way CPS and others only pretend to use multiple measures, bias in standardized tests, the failure of merit pay and other schemes to link teacher work to student scores, and the likelihood that the new national tests will be hugely expensive.

It shows the cruelty of the false hopes raised by those masters pretending to «humane» treatment, through promises of manumission extended as a calculated tool to secure loyalty when an owner took the risk of educating a slave for office work, for example; or the deceitful «kindness» used to secure compliance of seemingly freed slaves, in perpetuating programs of sterilization, medical experimentation, and of course cheap labor.

Beware of false promises by the collection agency Not surprisingly, some debt collectors use dirty, underhanded tactics to collect debt.

You are then inundated with calls from all these lenders trying to one up the other with false and misleading promises to get you to use them.

Also in the U.S., an Arizona man was sentenced to 15.75 years in prison for using online dating sites to convince women to give him money on the false promise that he would help them repay their student loans.

They use fake trailers and false advertising to sell their games that do not include promised features.

Empty shelves and prefab props bear evidence of decades of use, underscoring a sense of systematic, constructed false promise.

On the one hand, we can think of cults which we know exist to extort money (and other things) from people by using illegitimate means of persuasion: brainwashing, bullying, false promises.

Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices, including but not limited to the use or employment of any deception, fraud, false pretense, false promise, misrepresentation or the concealment, suppression or omission of any material fact, with intent that others rely upon the concealment, suppression or omission of such material fact,... in the conduct of any trade or commerce are hereby declared unlawful whether any person has in fact been misled, deceived or damaged thereby.

Three such approaches appear: a prescriptive approach that requires the use of digital signatures, based on a «false promise» of equivalence to manuscript signatures and «incorrect assurances that digital signatures are secure»; a minimalist approach that does not prescribe any technology, though some countries have followed UNCITRAL in requiring that e-signatures be appropriately reliable; and a hybrid or two - tier approach that allows e-signatures at large for some purposes and requires digital signatures for others.