How To Use Misrepresentation In A Sentence

Hamlet as a play is similarly preoccupied by slander, misrepresentation and selves fabricated from the nothings of rhetorical tropes.
They have been questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and fraud by misrepresentation. Times, Sunday Times
The city now seeks to amend the claim to plead fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit and to seek punitive damages.
During the neverending arguments about women priests even the women concerned were mostly scrupulous about not using the ‘pagan’ term priestess, extraordinary misrepresentations of Jesus' followers were cited as ‘proof’ that women were not meant to be members of the clergy. The Templar Revelation
Mr Buthelezi on Wednesday criticised the media in general for what he termed their blatant misrepresentation of the IFP position at multiparty talks. ANC Daily News Briefing

These involve both factual distortions and misrepresentations of the Geneva Convention on POWs.
I think there's a compelling case to be made that, by and large, an appropriator from a dominant culture carrying out such an act is likely to be doing so for negative motives and to negative results, that historically such cross-cultural sacrilege is motivated by misrepresentation and discrimination and aimed towards furthering misrepresentation and discrimination. Archive 2006-09-01
As with misrepresentation, certain bars operate to prevent rescission.
All quotes, except those cited by link, consist entirely of hearsay, malefactions, and poorly-conjured misrepresentations.
This is an unfortunate misrepresentation of my remarks, and misleads readers about the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
He writes, "This is a city that fabricates, forgets, and forges its past-in both senses of 'forge'-through misrepresentation and politically motivated fictions". PopMatters
In several decisions the English courts have found the wording of such clauses was not effective in excluding liability for a pre-contractual misrepresentation.
Looking back at Labour health policy now, I have to ask myself how so many of us were unable to see through the mists of what Leys and Player call the "misrepresentation, obfuscation, and deception" perpetrated by Blair, Brown, and a host of health ministers all too willing to genuflect to the market zeitgeist. The Plot Against the NHS by Colin Leys and Stewart Player – review
Compared with the former, it extended the outer scope of "Misrepresentation" but such provisions as value date of lawsuit prescription, disclosure date of misrepresentation still await amendments.
The Bible makes it clear that the devil and his forces are the masters of misrepresentation.
A contract obtained by fraudulent misrepresentation is voidable, not void, even in equity.
In his closing submissions, Mr. Marler quite properly abandoned reliance on certain pleaded misrepresentations by Hillis considering the equivocal nature of the evidence.
Cutting a path through the thickets of misrepresentation, misunderstanding and lunatic theorising that have grown up around the symbol of the Grail is no easy task.
The MP laughed off the remarks as media misrepresentation.
It is this type of willful misrepresentation, lying and scaremongering by even the official antivax brigade which I find so appalling. slippinaway On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
In truth few have worshipped at that altar and gone forth into chosen ways unmindful of her history, unimbued with her love, or untrained in stating facts — those readily correlated by one and all — such as it has been the effort here to record, some possibly through filial affection a little tinted but in the main void of any intent at exaggeration or misrepresentation. The University of Virginia
The back and forth barbing ended in tears after Matt informed Bruno that the Austrian Minister to Great Britain had called for a boycott of his new movie, Bruno, do to its misrepresentation of the Austrian people. “Bruno” Poster
Anesthesiologists should not permit the misrepresentation of non physician personnel as resident physicians or practicing physicians.
The documentary was a misrepresentation of the truth and bore little resemblance to actual events.
Three men have been arrested and questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and fraud by misrepresentation. Times, Sunday Times
My sense of humor about this stuff is more or less shot through by five days in which the media has done everything possible - from deliberate overcredulity to misrepresentation to outright fabrication - to rip this woman apart. "I'm the freaking Governor of Alaska. I didn't get there by just eating mooseburgers and popping out kids."
In many cases consent was obtained by Government officials through fraud, coercion or misrepresentation, tactics which annulled the validity of such consent.
Potentially, you could even make knowing misrepresentations in your form.
The second misrepresentation runs thus: -- 'The developments of electricity and the formation of stars and suns, luminous and nonluminous, moons and planets, with their rings, &c., is deduced, very much according to the nebular theory of Laplace, from the principle propounded above.' International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
There is considerable dissatisfaction among lesbians and gays at their lack of representation, or misrepresentation, on television.
I find it somewhat aggravating that your constant complaints that I am battering straw men doesn't stop you from simply ascribing a political moderateness that I have neither shown nor hold; your sensitivity to misrepresentation evidently does not run in more than one direction. OCD
It countermands any specious defences of appropriation when applied to marginal culture that pivot on the double standard, allowing us to point to the precise effects of misrepresentation and discrimination that are resultant from the appropriation, and allows us to challenge the appropriation on a level of legtimacy that is not hamstrung by an implicit privileging. More on Cultural Appropriation
The ability to post effectively on the Internet can be a very good thing, creating the ability to misrepresentations quickly.
He counterclaimed for damages for misrepresentation and breach of contract of employment.
We cannot afford misrepresentation of the facts, jingoism and warmongering in the media.
The certificate would also list all of the information necessary to prevent misrepresentation of the media used to create a work.
Was this audacious accounting, or the kind of thing that at first glance seems like clear misrepresentation?
A misrepresentation or misdescription could result in the landlord being unable to enforce the terms of the agreement.
It is a huge misrepresentation to relabel contraceptive use as “birth control” with the intention of including abortions. It’s The Economy!
When it surfaced three days later, a Mississippi jury tried to do its part by burying his story under a tissue of lies and misrepresentations.
As for the ongoing exaggeration and misrepresentation of Reagan's role, after his first term bellicosity, he did agree to arms control agreements with Gorbachev. Was Gorbachev the Most Influential Man of the Second Half of the 20th Century?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
In your desire to blacken the reputation of Indonesia, you have resorted to the dissemination of falsehoods, misrepresentations and innuendos without any factual basis.
This insurance shall be voidable if there has been misrepresentation, mis-description or non-disclosure of any material fact.
Misrepresentation is falsehood or omission of facts in relation to an investment.
Your gripe was that you did not get what you bargained for and expected because of this misrepresentation.
Lies and misrepresentations on the federa gas tax, which is entirely controlled by the oil industry in terms of collection and payment to the feds. Last minute Clinton ad: 'What has happened to Barack Obama?'
The documentary was a misrepresentation of the truth and bore little resemblance to actual events.
Bias by misrepresentation is used to create friction within opponents of "the Party" by exaggerating or misreporting the words of Tories so as to bring discord and dispute where there is "harmony". BBC bias analysed
His Protrepticus is a copious source of information about the Greek mysteries, though his wish to represent them as a perversion of Scriptural teachings must have led to misrepresentation.
Society suffers from dangerous sects and cults, militia movements, media control, and misrepresentations of psychiatric treatment and mental disorders.
May I, in the name of and for the sake of Empire solidarity and unity, which I assure you in all earnestness is as dear to me as I know it is to you, pray to you to try to see through the maze of misrepresentation, misunderstanding and misconception, often deliberately built around India, and to refrain from saying or doing that which may at this crucial moment of our history, when the fate of India hangs in the balance, harm the very interest so dear to our hearts. New India
The Bible makes it clear that the devil and his forces are the masters of misrepresentation.
The lesson is dishonest in that it masquerades as science while including misrepresentations and factual errors.
The only problem with this report is that it contains flat out misrepresentations, gross exaggerations, flying leaps of logic and claims that cannot stand up to rigorous scrutiny.
What their Honours did was to construe the facts to see in the facts a misrepresentation - not a misleading statement, a misrepresentation.
Such myths and misrepresentations explain, justify and resolve insupportable contradictions and problems in society.
This case was not lengthened or complicated by the allegations of fraudulent misrepresentation.
Contracts, then, entered into because of accidental mistake which was induced by the fraud or misrepresentation of the other party, will be rescindable at the option of the party deceived. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
Both men were questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and fraud by misrepresentation, police said. Times, Sunday Times
In many cases consent was obtained by Government officials through fraud, coercion or misrepresentation, tactics which annulled the validity of such consent.
Both men were questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and fraud by misrepresentation, police said. Times, Sunday Times
The Final Frontier is hereby found guilty of misrepresentation.
The court should guard against misrepresentation being used as an improper means of reopening a compromise agreement. Times, Sunday Times
The court should guard against misrepresentation being used as an improper means of reopening a compromise agreement. Times, Sunday Times
A group of investors sued Matrixx for a "material" misrepresentation and omission under federal securities law because the company did not publicly report that medical researchers in the early 2000s had traced Zicam to the loss of smell, known as anosmia, and that related lawsuits against the company had been filed. Court sides with investors on disclosing drug reactions
Many other instances of alleged inaccuracy, distortion and misrepresentation have remained on file and I may well have ignored them but for the sudden eruption of complaints in recent months.
This accounts for the curious recursion and exponentialism in their arguments - each stupid, petty point leads to a hundred other miniscule sulks, misrepresentations and so on.
Three men have been arrested and questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and fraud by misrepresentation. Times, Sunday Times
This insurance shall be voidable if there has been misrepresentation, mis-description or non-disclosure of any material fact.
These policies are then justified by unprecedented distortions and misrepresentations.
The rhetoric of fear and misrepresentation is powerful, but I do not believe it will defeat the strongest call for healthcare reform by the American people this country has ever seen. Cornyn touts GOP health plans
Avoidance for innocent misrepresentation or nondisclosure is not permitted, unless the law prohibits such an exclusion.
Compared with the former, it extended the outer scope of "Misrepresentation" but such provisions as value date of lawsuit prescription, disclosure date of misrepresentation still await amendments.
Were some parts of it omitted, and false statements rectified, it might not do any harm; and perhaps it might be found advisable to adopt some plan of that kind, making a careful _record of the omissions_ to insert any future _misrepresentations_, and a like record of such _additions_ or _alterations_. Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete
Keene was at no loss to recall inoffensive phrases; in another long speech, full of cajolery sufficiently artful for the occasion, he represented himself as having merely protested against misrepresentations obviously sharpened by malice. Demos
I understand that any misrepresentation may be cause for denial or cancellation of admission or enrollment.
The court should guard against misrepresentation being used as an improper means of reopening a compromise agreement. Times, Sunday Times
The misrepresentation in the national media on this story has been interesting, too.
Compared with the former, it extended the outer scope of "Misrepresentation" but such provisions as value date of lawsuit prescription, disclosure date of misrepresentation still await amendments.
So it is perhaps not surprising that 18 months after I got them to strongly and publicly endorse Obama's cap-and-trade plan, they have launched a series of attacks on it -- attacks based on misrepresentation and misanalysis. Joseph Romm: Memo to Media: Don't be Suckered by Bad Analyses from the Breakthrough Institute
Twenty-two years later, Bork is remembered more as a verb -- to "bork" -- which conservative columnist William Safire defined as to engage in a vicious attack on "a candidate or appointee, especially by misrepresentation in the media. Karl Frisch: Forget Being "Borked," She's Been "Sotomayored"
Three men have been arrested and questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and fraud by misrepresentation. Times, Sunday Times
MikeGene: Yet not all misrepresentation is overstatement. Advocacy in Science: a Parasitic Practice
A couple of months ago when Deborah Howell was "deluged" with "uncivilized" comments about her failure to correct a blatant misrepresentation, the Washington Post ombudsman and others had a shrieking fit of the vapors and spent days on the fainting couch mumbling incoherently about the rude insults they had to endure. Hullabaloo
And a lie from the White House - or a fib or a misrepresentation or a fudged number - can go a long way toward distorting the national discussion.
But on Saturday, Bezwoda said his "spontaneous admission of misrepresentation regarding the method of this study" dealt with the use of a drug called CAF as opposed to one called CN V "in respect of 54 patients. ANC Daily News Briefing
..in which the media has done everything possible - from deliberate overcredulity to misrepresentation to outright fabrication - to rip this woman apart. "I'm the freaking Governor of Alaska. I didn't get there by just eating mooseburgers and popping out kids."
Therefore, I conclude that the Warsaw Convention applies to this case and that the plaintiff's claim based on misrepresentation is ill-founded, both in fact and in law.
The idea that if one gives up a customary religious practice such as purdah, that one is ceasing to be a Muslim altogether is an egregious misrepresentation of what it takes to be a Muslim.
And a lie from the White House - or a fib or a misrepresentation or a fudged number - can go a long way toward distorting the national discussion.
Misrepresentation on the one side, mishandling of past mistakes on the other. Times, Sunday Times
Other readers have unknowingly been victims of a more extraordinary misrepresentation of the novel than even Richardson himself managed.
Aegyptiaca of this very building, are such monstrous misrepresentations of nature, that they never could have obtained a place among the statues of Rome, except as curiosities of foreign superstition, or on account of the materials, as they are generally of basaltes, porphyry, or oriental granite. Travels through France and Italy
Instead I found an illtempered, confused set of generalizations about what analytical philosophers believe about history, distortion and misrepresentation of my views, and a peroration on the "wholly denotative" language of science and the "connotative" language of history that should win Hexter some kind of prize for philosophical incompetence. Letting Go
They have been questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and fraud by misrepresentation. Times, Sunday Times
The censorship stooshie may stir up some media attention, but it also creates a misrepresentation of a film defined more by ponderous pacing and pretentiousness than by gratuitous sensation.
The issue has been clouded by the general misrepresentation of some of these products.
Where a plaintiff is induced by misrepresentation to enter into an agreement which is, or proves to be, to his or her disadvantage, the plaintiff sustains a detriment in a general sense on entry into the agreement.
They are compulsory charges - thus making the advertised cost of the flights disingenuous to say the least, misrepresentation at worst. Times, Sunday Times
Thirdly: it was a complete misrepresentation of anything which I, or anyone around me, has ever experienced.
His misrepresentation seems mainly to reflect the sloppy quality of much Australian work.
Cheating and misrepresentation has been endemic in the field of herbalism at least since the time of the Egyptians and Greeks.
It was concerned explicitly with inducements held to be misrepresentations to engage in the total project, a project which involved overtime, incomes and outgoes.
Provan, the unstated premise of your intentional misrepresentation is that you are in love with Richard Dawkins. Berlinski's Wisdom
MikeGene: Or are you now going to deny that misrepresentation is a core feature of political activism and campaigning? Advocacy in Science: a Parasitic Practice
Moreover, such misrepresentation can undermine the public's confidence in condoms, thereby leading to nonuse and to further spread of STIs and HIV.
He said: ‘It is a very sorry and messy business and there has been much misrepresentation.’
More tobacco industry litigation and settlements are expected to punitively punish the tobacco industry for long-term misrepresentation of the health risks associated with smoking.
You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.
President Swain was so galled that he made an elaborate reply to what he called misconception and misrepresentations. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868
Yes, the misrepresentations spanned a considerable period.
In the case of voudon, you have misrepresentations that demonise the practitioners of this "black magic". More on Cultural Appropriation
This Policy shall be voidable in the event of misrepresentation , misdescription or non-disclosure made by the Insured or his representative in any material particular in respect of this insurance.
I understand any misrepresentation may cause denial of admission or expulsion from the university.
Of course contracts induced by fraud or misrepresentation or contracts which are unconscionable bargains are voidable rather than void but, in the absence of third party reliance, that cannot constitute a difference of principle.
They have been questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and fraud by misrepresentation. Times, Sunday Times
Universities themselves seem anxious to avoid misrepresentation in this area.
Clauses which seek to exclude or restrict liability for misrepresentation are regulated by s3 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967.
I am not referring to the distortion or misrepresentation that memory performs like a busy cosmetician.
Three men have been arrested and questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and fraud by misrepresentation. Times, Sunday Times
The documentary was a misrepresentation of the truth and bore little resemblance to actual events.
Both men were questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and fraud by misrepresentation, police said. Times, Sunday Times
In your desire to blacken the reputation of this country, you have resorted to the dissemination of falsehoods, misrepresentations and innuendos without any factual basis.
It was held that the seller made a misrepresentation.
Does the fraudulent misrepresentation bar Mr Halley's claim?
In any case, I do think that trying to characterize the anti-war movement by the wackos is just what I said: a misrepresentation of the political opposition.
This is not some minor dispute over a footnote to history but rather raises the possibility of one of the most egregious misrepresentations by a US Administration.
I never saw such a glaring example of misrepresentation.
They are compulsory charges - thus making the advertised cost of the flights disingenuous to say the least, misrepresentation at worst. Times, Sunday Times
This whole age of misrepresentation is really going to hurt later on I think. Man made global warming? No way!
One consequence of these contradictions and misrepresentations is an enduring oversensitivity to external recognition. The Times Literary Supplement
a long and elaborate misrepresentation.
They have been questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and fraud by misrepresentation. Times, Sunday Times
Compared with the former, it extended the outer scope of "Misrepresentation" but such provisions as value date of lawsuit prescription, disclosure date of misrepresentation still await amendments.
I invite commenters to elaborate on their favorite misrepresentations in the spinning of this matter.
The debate gave new life to overheated claims and misrepresentations.
Both men were questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, money laundering and fraud by misrepresentation, police said. Times, Sunday Times
I am always happy to see honest economists call dishonest pundits out on their misrepresentation of the facts.
Or are you now going to deny that misrepresentation is a core feature of political activism and campaigning? Advocacy in Science: a Parasitic Practice
This flexibility provides opportunities for manipulation, deception and misrepresentation.
I take full responsibility for any misunderstanding or misrepresentation.
They are compulsory charges - thus making the advertised cost of the flights disingenuous to say the least, misrepresentation at worst. Times, Sunday Times
In this perspective, pornography is not harmless fantasy or a corrupt and confused misrepresentation of an otherwise natural and healthy sexuality.
So wtf is your point - that is besides misrepresentation and tantrum throwing? Blast From the Past
What we are being given as ironic spectators of this staged act of spectatorship is a complex chain of fabricated misrepresentations as generators of identity.
But that is ok, we have come to expect nothing but lies and misrepresentation from the right; well let me take that back, we also expect them to come armed and threaten anyone who does not look just like them or agree to their extremist views. GOP group launches first attack ad against Creigh Deeds
Too bad for the rest of us that the principles are dangerously divorced from reality, their idealism is so inconsistently applied as to raise questions about their sincerity, and their heroic pose reflects either cynical misrepresentation or self-delusion. Matthew Yglesias » People Hate Republicans
He misses the point, and I would put this down to his customary sloppiness if it wasn't that, in his other misrepresentations of my published views, he seems to be actuated by malice as well.
The having spoken of myself with unaffected freedom will need little apology with the candid; and let the uncandid consider that they injure me less than their own hearts and minds by misrepresentation. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Among those of us who look on, a few will be curmudgeonly - carping at inaccuracies or misrepresentations of the original.
As misrepresentation is not necessary, it is of questionable importance to achieving the goal of getting attention and bringing about political results. Advocacy in Science: a Parasitic Practice
Not the least among these bitter-enders was Keynes, whose magnum opus - his misnamed ‘General Theory’ - revolves around little more than an attempt to dismiss his own cheap misrepresentation of what Say had taught.
The plaintiff attributes its execution of the deeds to the alleged misrepresentations.
The trial judge ruled that contributory negligence was not a defence to the claims in negligent misrepresentation and fraud and excluded this evidence.
I am not referring to the distortion or misrepresentation that memory performs like a busy cosmetician.
The depiction of average Americans being unruly mobs is yet another misrepresentation of reality by the DNC. Obama goes to health-care battlefront with N.H. town hall
In his twisted world, this mild exposition is a tissue of lies, misrepresentations, and abuse of power.

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