Word: misleads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...repeated Gates's pledge to resign rather than mislead Congress or acquiesce in something improper, calling it "the strongest and clearest pledge ever made by any nominee...
...shortly after, were delighted to do that job. They frisked both Kryuchkov and Yazov; Kryuchkov offered no resistance, but the Defense Minister grumbled (neither was armed). Even then Rutskoi and his companions were worried that other plotters might try something. "We told the airport to prepare two planes to mislead the scoundrels," Rutskoi later said on Soviet television...
...That is much more upbeat than in France, where a Paris Match/B.V.A. poll last week showed that 70% of respondents feared degeneration into a third world war. But the hint of U.S. pessimism underscored a widespread feeling that the American people had been misled, or perhaps been encouraged to mislead themselves, about how hard it would be to dislodge Iraqis from Kuwait...
...reasoned arguments that should be stated before hundreds of thousands of young Americans are sent to risk their lives--not to mention the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis oppressed by Saddam Hussein--we have heard from Washington only cynical arguments designed to blind and mislead...
...greater interest than a test pattern. To top it off, such commercials have to include a disclaimer warning potential customers that they shouldn't be picking attorneys through TV ads in the first place. The Florida Bar Association, which developed the rules, says the dial- a-lawyer ads mislead consumers and influence juries by creating the impression that personal-injury cases are motivated by greed...