Lying
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In other words, we can learn a lot about people’s behavior just from the observation that there are no ten-dollar bills
lying
around on public sidewalks.
Under the 1895 peace settlement of Shimonoseki, the full independence of Korea was guaranteed and Japan gained Formosa, the Pescadores, and Manchuria's strategically important Liaoting Peninsula, with Port Arthur (Lushun)
lying
just to the south.
Breaking an oath to tell the truth is perjury, and
lying
in official documents is both perjury and fraud.
The problem with Greece is that everyone is
lying.
The European Commission and the European Central Bank are
lying
when they claim that the Greek “program” can work as long as Greece’s government does as it is told.
Germany is
lying
when it insists that Greece can recover without substantial debt relief through more austerity and structural reforms.
The current Syriza government is
lying
when it insists that it has never consented to impossible fiscal targets.
And, last but not least, the IMF is
lying
when its functionaries pretend that they are not responsible for imposing those targets on Greece.
Further doubt about this distinction stems from the fact that various Trump aides have been convicted of
lying
about such contacts.
Because India’s government cannot afford to take China’s latest aggression
lying
down, it is reportedly already preparing for a long standoff.
Hold the Brexit Con Artists to AccountPARIS – In late May, the Westminster Magistrates’ Court decided to hear a complaint brought by activist Marcus Ball, who had accused Boris Johnson, the former UK foreign secretary who is now leading the field to succeed Theresa May as prime minister, of
lying
during the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign.
Lying
is different because it erodes our faith in public discourse.
The damage from his compulsive
lying
was compounded by the national alarm about the subject – two unstoppable forces that have collided almost daily in the self-serving, meandering “briefings” he insisted on leading in the White House press room.
His point might have been that he wasn’t really himself when he was
lying
for his boss.
So, when it was suggested recently that China’s recent behavior – bullying, lying, and violating treaties – was similar to that of Germany prior to World War I, I was doubtful.
Although the oversight committee’s Republican members portrayed Cohen as untrustworthy because he’d been convicted of
lying
to Congress and will soon go to jail, they noticeably didn’t defend Trump.
And, true to form, they were lying: the hearing date had been set first.
China certainly is not taking Meng’s arrest
lying
down.
And his chronic
lying
from the Office of the President undermines the people’s confidence in their government.
They are all practiced in blithely dismissing mistakes and shrugging off incendiary past statements, conflicts of interest, corruption allegations,
lying
and deception, and improper dealings.
He has been repeatedly fired from jobs for
lying
and other disreputable behavior.
A young woman had just delivered a baby and was
lying
on the floor, very thin and obviously exhausted.
Johnson (who was fired from multiple jobs for lying) and Trump (with his meticulously documented history of business failures, including several bankruptcies) never seem to run out of second chances.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), through which interbank transfers are traditionally made, is not taking this challenge
lying
down.
Many partisans accused President George W. Bush of
lying
and pressuring the intelligence community to produce intelligence to justify a war that Bush had already chosen.
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House, accused Barr of
lying
to Congress, noting that this is “a crime.”
The book argues that for middle-class people living in affluent countries, abiding by the traditional moral rules against lying, stealing, maiming, or killing is not enough.
Trump ran his 2016 campaign while secretly trying to score a real-estate mega-deal in Moscow (and, as usual,
lying
about it to the public).
Flynn who had twice admitted under oath to
lying
to the FBI about his secret conversations during the transition with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, and Trump fired him because he had also lied to Vice President Mike Pence about these talks.
In politics, the more that lies are employed, the more grounds there are for each side to accuse the other of
lying.
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