(1) A section is dedicated to Palestinian fatalities, which deals largely with what it claims are Hamas’s duplicitous numbers.
(2) With [Nigel] Farage – everybody knows that he is duplicitous and he’ll say one thing in one street and something completely different in another but he comes across as though there is some sort of authenticity around him.
(3) But neglecting our relationship with Turkey, creating a smokescreen around our real intentions, blowing hot and cold on Ankara’s European future, promising the moon and then retracting it: this duplicitous attitude has created the situation we have today, and we are now paying the highest price for it.
(4) It is a strange and fickle beast, a flexible friend, dubious and duplicitous, as I was about to find out.
(5) In 4 patients there were duplicit pheochromocytomas and in one triplicit (both adrenals and an extraadrenal pheochromocytoma).
(6) Starring Tim Roth – the actor famous for playing the duplicitous Mr Orange in Reservoir Dogs – as Fifa’s current president Sepp Blatter, Gérard Depardieu as the World Cup creator Jules Rimet, and the New Zealand actor Sam Neill as Blatter’s predecessor João Havelange, it bills itself as the story of “a group of passionate European mavericks” who “join forces on an ambitious project: the Fédération Internationale de Football Association”.
(7) The novel opens with Clay's return from New York to Los Angeles, where he quickly becomes embroiled in a Hollywood-noir thriller plot involving threatening texts from unseen stalkers, dark and duplicitous sex, sinister disappearances and the requisite scenes of unspeakable violence.
(8) More widely, it is designed to portray the Ecuadorean government as duplicitous.
(9) He will teach that the bombing of Hiroshima was premised on a lie, that the CIA's secret war against leftist Central American governments was based on chimerical communist threat, that the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were follies and, perhaps most intolerable of all to patriots, that the United States of America is just as self-serving, duplicitous, corrupt, oppressive, expansionist and racist as – there's no easy way to say this – the British empire.
(10) He was clever, duplicitous and manipulative and took advantage of weaknesses in the system.
(11) Then take it on the chin when your boiling frustration because you can't express yourself at the ballot box is dismissed by smug, duplicitous politicians as "voter apathy".
(12) When it comes to Russian and US domestic politics, the worst stereotypes – Russia as a neo-Soviet autocracy, America as a duplicitous hegemon – proliferate on both sides.
(13) So they dissociate from all these qualities, project them out on to others, and develop duplicitous personalities that are on the run, which is why ex-boarders make the best spies.
(14) Nigel Lawson won top marks for the most duplicitously twisted argument: he was voting against because this amendment would “stir up fear” in these EU residents, when there is “no question” of their expulsion.
(15) Imagine that someone told you that your close friend, whom you trusted, was actually duplicitous, could dump you and was disliked by your father.
(16) Israel’s policy towards Gaza since the unilateral disengagement in 2005 has consisted of the systematic violations of international humanitarian law, duplicitous diplomacy and large doses of brute military force.
(17) Even if it turns out that Isis was not involved the narrative is set, and so the boons of publicity far outweigh the drawbacks to being outed as duplicitous.
(18) Villanova's second title is even more unfathomable than 1985's giant-killers Read more The skills in college are lousy, the best players seem to treat the games as pro tryouts, and the coaches are more duplicitous than ever – hard to accomplish in a profession likened to hucking used cars.
(19) "This would appear to confirm that Khan was not a rogue operator; secondly, that the military was deeply involved in what he was doing; and that thirdly, it confirms the growing concerns that the Pakistani military is not working in our interests, at best, and is duplicitous at worst."
(20) Though the duplicitous Pakistani Inter-Services agency helped make and mould them, there's scant double-dealing in the way they fight now.
Treacherous
Definition:
(a.) Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison was also made with cephalometric roentgenograms of a patient with Treacher Collins syndrome and of a patient with progeria.
(2) The clinical study of the major cranio-facial malformations such as Apert syndrome, Treacher-Collins syndrome, Blepharophimosis and Bilateral Cleft Palate patients, lead us to note a similarity of the orbito-palpebral region.
(3) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(4) They say an increasing number of “protracted refugees” living in centres in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq will attempt the treacherous journey to Europe because they cannot offer their families a life or a future in the camps.
(5) The thinktank added: “It will be interesting to watch next week how Mr Osborne navigates these treacherous waters and avoids the obstacles he constructed for himself.
(6) The power and versatility of these computer-imaging techniques are demonstrated by examining living subjects with major craniofacial dysmorphology (Treacher-Collins syndrome and unilateral coronal synostosis); an anthropoid osteological specimen (Gorilla); and a fossil mammal skull.
(7) Although the ferocity of the wind has eased, engineers have been struggling to restore electricity in conditions described as treacherous and worsening.
(8) May linked the situation in Calais directly to the refugee crisis in north Africa and the migrant boats risking the journey across the Mediterranean: “The government is clear that we must break the link between people making the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean and achieving settlement in Europe ,” she said.
(9) There was desperate resistance, as when Sol Campbell had to deal with a treacherous low ball from the substitute Dmitry Torbinsky.
(10) Viewed from the outside, Pakistan looms as the Fukushima of fundamentalism: a volatile, treacherous place filled with frothing Islamists and double-dealing generals, leaking plutonium-grade terrorist trouble.
(11) The investment banking division, which causes much of the controversy over bonuses at the end of the year, has had a torrid time but remained profitable and Hester said it had been operating in an "incredibly treacherous environment".
(12) In the low-risk setting, TB can be treacherous because misdiagnosis is likely.
(13) The Obama administration on Monday approved Shell’s plan to resume drilling for oil and gas in the treacherous and fragile waters off the coast of Alaska , three years after the Anglo-Dutch oil giant was forced to suspend operations following a series of potentially dangerous blunders.
(14) Linkage analysis between the D4S18, D4S23, and QDPR loci and Treacher Collins syndrome in eight families excluded the Treacher Collins syndrome locus from the region of the deletion.
(15) On the contrary, the rotation of the midfacial segment combined with mandibular lengthening for the correction of Treacher Collins has a strong tendency to relapse because of the backward pull of the soft tissues.
(16) Treacher Collins syndrome is a rare but well studied autosomal dominant craniofacial malformation syndrome.
(17) UAE halted Isis air attacks after pilot capture Read more But it was also a crude and menacing message to Jordanians, whose government was described as “treacherous and Zionist”, to stop fighting Isis.
(18) Heathrow airport cancelled half of its flights as the snow and cold weather continued to cause problems across the UK, stranding motorists and leaving roads icy and treacherous.
(19) The area above the last camp at South Col is nicknamed the "death zone" because of the steep icy slope, treacherous conditions and low oxygen level.
(20) The haemorrhagic accident preceding the onset of craniofacial microsomia is discussed as is the distinctly different phenomenon of disturbance to the migration or differentiation of neural crest cells in the pathogenesis of Treacher Collins syndrome.