The President also tends to stretch the truth about NATO.
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We stretch the truth about our hobbies to sound more interesting.
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Of course, most presidential candidates stretch the truth a little during debates.
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That experience didn't cure him of his tendency to stretch the truth.
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All politicians stretch the truth, but Trump has a steady obliviousness to accuracy.
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The best college counselors don't help kids lie or stretch the truth on their applications.
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"When people lie or stretch the truth, sometimes that itself distorts their memory," Frenda says.
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Politicians stretch the truth all the time, but Mr. Trump is in a league of his own.
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In addition to leaving out a few unflattering details, you might also be tempted to stretch the truth.
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That doesn't mean they should hit a buzzer and shout "false" whenever a candidate seems to stretch the truth.
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A BBC panjandrum told me that in a second referendum both sides ought to agree not to stretch the truth.
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In an effort to make your resume stand out from the pack it can be tempting to stretch the truth.
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Nor would it be out of character for her to deliberately stretch the truth of the situation in the process.
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Given his willingness to stretch the truth or say things that are false, this creates less than ideal conditions for negotiation.
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Put another way, just one in six job seekers say they didn't stretch the truth in any way during their recent hiring experience.
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Trump and Republicans cast him as a politically motivated and calculating official — who now has a reason to stretch the truth to seek revenge.
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Even though you probably don't lie to your kids often, you might be tempted to stretch the truth in an effort to spare them pain.
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The law also recognizes that self-preservation is such a powerful instinct that people unconsciously stretch the truth or tell the version they want to tell.
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Through the Soleimani crisis, Pompeo has shown a willingness to stretch the truth and an unrelenting loyalty to President Donald Trump, the man who controls his political destiny.
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One WebMD survey of 1,500 people found as many as 45 percent of patients stretch the truth, hold back, or outright lie to their physicians—and 17 percent lie about sexual health.
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His tweets and his public statements are filled with comments that have no basis in fact or that stretch the truth so far you can almost see the veracity elastic starting to break.
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And given Trump's demonstrated propensity to stretch the truth, his voluble temperament and unwillingness to listen to advice, some legal experts also warn that an interview with Mueller could be a perjury trap.
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Though there was none of the guttural cheering and angry taunts that often emanate from Mr. Trump's campaign-style rallies, the president's hallmark rhetoric and propensity to stretch the truth was also ever-present.
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Maybe in an age where founders are encouraged to stretch the truth, to fake it till they make it, and to be resourceful above all else, Oladapo and Berney rationlized their approach to securing properties as unremarkable.
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We have now seen him and many members of the administration stretch the truth or outright lie when questioned about these connections, while his false claims about President Obama wiretapping his phone have exposed that his words can't be taken seriously.
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But in reality, all the show could ever do for them would be to create a false image of "success," the on-screen equivalent of a party where you stretch the truth to impress a dude you want to sleep with.
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He doesn't just stretch the truth in the way most politicians do: selectively citing facts that make them look good, deliberately omitting ones that make them look bad, overstating or understating the probable impact of the campaign promises they make.
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The cleverest of divorcees may stretch the truth about their after-tax income by throwing more money into a 401(k) plan, a deferred compensation plan or a health savings account — a tax-advantaged account you can use to pay for qualified medical expenses.
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To suggest that their fortunes rested on Genia's ability to earn a living from the game he loved would not stretch the truth, but whatever their circumstances, he was a nice kid and his family let us hang around them probably more than was comfortable.
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In his six months in the post, however, Spicer did stretch the truth more than once, including in an appearance in which he berated the media for what he said was unfair reporting of the attendance of Trump's inauguration -- although aerial photos and National Park Service officials indicated otherwise.
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"Taffy" is a song written and sung by Lisa Loeb. The song was recorded in 1995. It is featured on her album Tails, and her 2006 greatest hits album, The Very Best of Lisa Loeb. It is about a boyfriend who always lies: the expression is saying that he likes to stretch the truth, which is basically lying.
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The license is not a construction contract, and federal energy regulators must approve the project before it can go forward."Some of Palin's remarks stretch the truth: Gas pipeline, earmark issues have more subtlety than described" , Anchorage Daily News, September 4, 2008 On December 5, 2008, the AGIA license, jointly awarded to Foothills Pipe Lines Ltd. and TransCanada Alaska, LLC, was signed in Fairbanks.
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The name "Latah" stems from a Nez Perce word meaning "a place of pines and sestles", or "fish". However, there are controversies that even stretch the truth as far as to say that "Latah" is not part of the native dialect. Nevertheless, "Latah" is believed to have been the creek's name for a very long period of time. The name "Hangman" originated from when 17 Palouse Indians were hanged along the creek after a war.
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Donnel Stern, writing in the Psychoanalytic Dialogues journal in 2019, declared: "We expect politicians to stretch the truth. But Trump is a whole different animal," because Trump "lies as a policy," and he "will say anything" to satisfy his supporters or himself. Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth, writing for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in 2017, described lies having "always been an integral part of politics and political communication". However, Trump was "delivering untruths on an unprecedented scale" in U.S. politics, both during his presidential campaign and during his presidency.
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Jack McCall is a literary agent who uses his "gift of gabbing" to get various book deals, and he is not afraid to stretch the truth to get them. While he is trying to get a book deal from a New Age self-help guru named Dr. Sinja, the guru sees through his deceit and agrees to the deal, only to later deliver a five-page book. That night, a Bodhi Tree magically appears in his backyard. Dr. Sinja goes to Jack's house and they both discover that for every word that Jack speaks, a leaf will fall off of the tree.
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Morton also wrote "King Porter Stomp", "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say", the last a tribute to New Orleans musicians from the turn of the 20th century. Morton's claim to have invented jazz in 1902 was criticized. Music critic Scott Yanow wrote, "Jelly Roll Morton did himself a lot of harm posthumously by exaggerating his worth...Morton's accomplishments as an early innovator are so vast that he did not really need to stretch the truth." Gunther Schuller says of Morton's "hyperbolic assertions" that there is "no proof to the contrary" and that Morton's "considerable accomplishments in themselves provide reasonable substantiation".
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Uriel Heilman, a managing editor for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) and a senior reporter for The Jerusalem Post, wrote in an online opinion column that there were a "couple of disingenuous (read: inaccurate) elements" in the May 2009 digest of NGO Monitor. Heilman rhetorically asked whether the situation itself was "enough for Steinberg and NGO Monitor's followers without Steinberg having to stretch the truth?" Gerald Steinberg, head of NGO Monitor, later conceded the phrasing was confusing and revised the statement. Kathleen Peratis, a member of the board of Human Rights Watch, called into question the research methodology underlying an op-ed by NGO Monitor's Steinberg for not saying specifically where or when HRW statements have been unverifiable.
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However, this is unsuccessful, ending in Patrick buying pictures of a customer as an overweight child, as is their attempt to "focus" (resulting in Patrick staring at a customer until the customer slams the door on Patrick's eyes). Then, they decide that the only way to sell chocolate is to "stretch the truth", which is successful when they convince a very old woman (to the dismay of her elderly daughter Mary) that it "makes you live forever". The lying continues, but after they attempt to help a seriously injured man (who turns out to be the same man who sold SpongeBob and Patrick the carrying bags in disguise) by buying his chocolate, their profit is lost. However, the chocolate fanatic catches up to them, and, in a turn of events, buys all of the chocolate that SpongeBob and Patrick have.
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Because the figures portrayed are actual people, whose actions and characteristics are known to the public (or at least historically documented), biopic roles are considered some of the most demanding of actors and actresses. Ben Kingsley, Johnny Depp, Jim Carrey, Robert Downey Jr, Jamie Foxx and Eddie Redmayne all gained new-found respect as dramatic actors after starring in biopics: Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi (1982), Depp as Ed Wood in Ed Wood (1994), Carrey as Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon (1999), Downey as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin (1992), Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray (2004), and Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014). Some biopics purposely stretch the truth. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was based on game show host Chuck Barris' widely debunked yet popular memoir of the same name, in which he claimed to be a CIA agent.
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