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Iranian citizens have shown great courage, and they would do well to continue pouring into the street and sitting down, lying down, or standing still.
As mortifying as it is to see Johnson appointed Foreign Secretary, given his history of lying, xenophobic statements, and insulting remarks about other world leaders, at least he will bear the stain of Britain’s catastrophe publicly.
They probably were not lying.
But the amount and type of lying make a difference.
Before he turns to lying as an instrument of statecraft, he should consider the importance of the goal, the availability of alternative means to achieve it, and whether the deception can be contained or is likely to establish a pattern.
The danger is that leaders tell themselves they are lying for the public good when they are doing so for political or personal gain.
By 1968, people were saying that the only way to tell if he was lying was to see if his lips were moving.
This was followed by his lying about his role in the cover-up of the break-in at the Democratic Party’s headquarters, which had been carried out at the behest of his administration.
And, the Post notes, his lying seems to have escalated in recent weeks.
Whether intentional or delusional, this level of persistent lying is pathological.
Many of Trump’s supporters seem to interpret his shameless lying as bold truth-telling, and pundits and foreign leaders tend to believe that his bizarre lashing out reflects a political strategy.
Many spend their days lying in bed, where they develop major health problems including bedsores, muscle atrophy, spinal deformities, and breathing disorders.
For example, in some studies, the researchers decided arbitrarily that falls of less than one meter could not harm a baby, so that parents who described such a fall must be lying.
In stifling heat, doctors and nurses were hard-pressed to care for surviving patients lying on soiled beds.
As long as there are so many productive resources lying idle, it would make sense to exempt from the fiscal compact investments that would eventually pay for themselves.
Despite this, I have frequently said to local policy leaders, business people, those from the philanthropic world, and others that unless the areas lying outside the immediate vicinity of central Manchester benefit from regional dynamism, Greater Manchester’s success will be far from complete.
The NBS is not lying; it simply lacks data.
Weary of inter-Arab politics, and tired of the high price Egypt had paid for the Palestinian cause, Sadat wanted to move away from Nasser’s pan-Arab ambitions and an excessive focus on the question of Palestine toward an emphasis on Egypt’s role as a power lying at the strategic crossroads between Asia and Africa.
South African president Thabo Mbeki convened negotiations with Zimbabwe’s political groups; but they have been so unfruitful that opposition leaders recently all but accused Mbeki of lying to the world about the progress of the talks.
Low lying islands like the Maldives will become submerged.
While the cameras were rolling, a US marine turned to an unarmed and wounded Iraqi lying on the ground and murdered the man with gunshots to the head.
Driven by its compulsion to make war on Iraq at all costs, Washington has shown little inclination to consider the war's long-term impact on countries lying at the periphery of the war zone.
The regime is brutalizing the Burmese people, and lying to the world about its actions.
And those whose standard of living has stagnated or declined have reached a simple conclusion: America’s political leaders either didn’t know what they were talking about or were lying (or both).
The rebellious youth who led popular demands for change are lying low (or have been rounded up); but, given the intellectual paralysis of the region’s rulers (and large parts of the opposition), an even more violent eruption can be expected.
The main lesson of Washington, and indeed of strongman politics in general, is that lying is the first, not last, resort.
Women are not taking it lying down.
To many experts, Trump’s behavior – grandiose self-regard, pathological lying, lack of remorse or guilt, expressive shallowness, parasitic lifestyle, impulsiveness, failure to accept responsibility for his own actions, and short-term marital relationships – are symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder.
A woman lying on a beach in a body-covering swimsuit is probably the least likely person to start shooting or bombing.
Fossil-fuel producers willfully drove us toward the grim future they feared by promoting their products, lying about the effects, and aggressively defending their share of the energy market.
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