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.
More surprising than the falsehood, though, is the sheer laziness of the charge.
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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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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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.
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.
Despite his goal of promoting harmony between the faiths, Pope Benedict stuck firmly to what he saw as a gift of truth that he had been born into in his native Bavaria - namely that the Roman Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ and despite all its human imperfections, had the authority to define doctrine and make definitive statements about truth and falsehood.
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