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There was also an aerial monitoring of troop movements and concealment and deception measures.
Eve's deception by the serpent has been used to justify the subjugation of women in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
The deception and trickery used for gain in America is not left out in this book.
Negatively this card represents trickery or deception and is a warning to be careful of whom you place your trust in.
For decades scientists have sought reliable ways to detect deception, only to be outwitted by liars capable of deceiving their instruments.
The Sierra codex was a document written by the master historian and master of deception, Crassus Syra, a runaway from home disguised as a man.
The coercers of the forced girls in this study kept them in control with violence, deception, indebtedness, and affection.
The progress of the film is a progress through illusion and deception toward reality and truth.
Federal law now makes it a felony to use falsehood and deception to hide the origin of the spam messages hawking your fraudulent wares.
It is this calculated use of deception and falsehood that we should fear, more even than the wrongheaded policy.
A government that is able to defend its policies before the people only through falsification and deception is a regime of extreme crisis.
Such explicitly parodic celebrities implicate themselves in the culture industry's deception.
He was arrested on suspicion of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception and damaging police property.
They assert deception because they both assume a monocausal argument for why the country went to war.
Their disillusionment is often due in no small part to the deception and coercion employed by local commanders and combatants.
Dr. Smith is an authority on parapsychology, the psychology of superstition and paranormal belief, and the psychology of deception.
There is something amiss in the hype, deception, and implicit greed surrounding the issue.
One of the most startling public acts of deception and sleight of hand has been undertaken by the provincial government.
An assessment that has since been revealed as naive at best and base deception at worst.
In the bid to eliminate the estate tax, anti-repeal forces have used slick advertising, explicit falsehoods and deception.
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Examples from Classical Literature
No talent in the deception of individuals or the gulling of the crowd can of itself bring the great reward.
It cannot be allowed that Joshua, Samuel, or Ezra, could connive at such a deception.
I am never successful in my little attempts at deception, even in self-defence.
And how often is a deception of the senses or an error of the reason accepted as a conviction!
The illicit means employed in discriminative underselling are chiefly extortion and deception.
The domino theory deception makes the claim that if one thing happens another will invariably follow.
If it be Mr. reedman's, he must have been guilty of fraud or the victim of deception.
Hence, we must counteract the ocular deception by an adjustment of proportions.
The deception worked, and they agreed to buy Mr. mogo's property, which he divided into thirty shares of one thousand each.
The system of fudging tasks, cribbing lessons, deception of every sort they endeavoured to overthrow.
Most of the geometer caterpillars, of which we have already spoken, are well trained in the art of deception.
Ferrari, in his excellent work on juvenile delinquency, discusses the various motives for deception and malingering in the child.
In brief, advertised dishonesty is even more profitless than unexploited deception.
If that were so, should we not be compelled to reject the whole of this as phantasy and deception?
All falsehood must be a blot as well as a sin, an injury as well as a deception.
This title swings him into full view, stripped of all deception and legerdemain.
It is well-planned deception, but I shall take no chances with them.
He lived in an atmosphere of blackest falsehood and deception.
Here are our instruments of deception, our poisoned 75 sources of lucre.
This, of course, must have been an ocular deception, assisted by the uncertain light.
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