The law didn't criminalize all lying, just "a calculated, factual falsehood" about oneself, said Mr. Verrilli.
But their truth or falsehood makes little difference if you hold gold in your physical possession.
It originated with a conservative blogger, who twisted an accurate news story into a falsehood.
W. Bush went so far as to draw attention to the impending falsehood emanating from his mouth in 1988.
Those who wish to promote the falsehood that wealth creation is exploitative need only purchase a few Uber rides.
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But, whether with truth or even falsehood truth, most Mexicans reckon the cosy kinship of former years is being sliced apart.
More surprising than the falsehood, though, is the sheer laziness of the charge.
The fiscal plans are like one of those childish excuses that begin with a little exaggeration and morph into outright falsehood.
But while most of the accusations in the foreign policy memorandum are simply tendentious, one of them appears to be an outright falsehood.
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But the Conservative education spokesperson, Damian Green, said that the figures "exposed the falsehood" of the government's claim to have recruited more teachers.
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Newspapers report the falsehood to unintended readers in the wrong countries.
Mr Allason also had a previous expensive reverse when a High Court judge threw out a claim of malicious falsehood against the Daily Mirror in 1996.
His rather presciently subtitled 2008 book Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media is an excellent, compelling read.
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And in so doing, perpetuating a falsehood that would only add to the bad taste in judgment had the Mayor and organizers gone through with the event.
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How could this wonderful oncologist, someone who I had learned to respect for her compassion and thoughtfulness, have spoken such a blatant falsehood to my nervous patient?
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His second term is exposing that falsehood in countless ways.
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This no doubt well-worn falsehood is received with polite nods.
Last year it failed in its attempt to sue the BBC's Top Gear having claimed libel and "malicious falsehood" following the TV programme's 2008 review of its Roadster model.
Brave scientists soldiering on in pursuit of the objective truth are increasingly demonstrating the falsehood of the theory that human activities are threatening the planet with potentially catastrophic global warming.
From Israel he proceeded Wednesday night to South Africa to tell the true story of Apartheid and to dispel the popular falsehood that Israel bears any similarity to Apartheid South Africa.
Good thing it is a complete and utter falsehood.
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Is there anything you think that the media can or should do, or that campaigns can or should do to repair the damage from once a falsehood is broadcast or printed and repeated?
As we explain below, the falsehood that GHG standards and fuel economy standards are unrelated gave the EPA legal cover to grant a waiver authorizing California to implement its own de-facto fuel economy program.
Another common example might involve an application for regulatory permission to market a new pharmaceutical, where there is an arguable error or even falsehood, but where the officer has no actual knowledge of the error or falsehood.
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"The SEC should never have allowed the ICI to claim it represents the interests of mutual fund investors, because it's a blatant falsehood, " says Edward Siedle of Benchmark Financial Services, a firm that investigates money management wrongdoing.
For example, at Cairo University, he claimed there are nearly seven million Muslims in this country - a falsehood promoted by the Muslim Brotherhood and its friends - when the actual number is well-less than half that.
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