Bogus Sentence Examples

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  • He had to return it as promised, even knowing it was a bogus rule.

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  • He felt the mother's demeanor suggested she was preparing a bogus story.

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  • They'll follow up on the girl's story even though you and I know it's bogus.

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  • All staff need to be very vigilant about bogus calls.

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  • The substance of his point is completely bogus from my point of view.

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  • To absolve a company of blame for shipping bogus code is wrong.

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  • Furthermore, a free-state " government " was set up, the " bogus " legislature at Shawnee being " repudiated."

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  • We also watched a video about bogus callers or distraction burglary.

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  • We refuse to accept bogus excuses for your behavior."

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  • At sundown on the 25th of July 1794, the very day of his condemnation on a bogus charge of conspiracy, Andre Chenier was guillotined.

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  • Occasionally houses are targeted by ' bogus collectors ' .

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  • The Festival is free so anyone collecting door-to-door is bogus - say No!

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  • Warning Of Bogus Workmen, Rugby 06/05/2006 Police remind householders to always check the credentials of people calling at their home to undertake work.

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  • Dealing with bogus callers Police advise householders throughout the region to be cautious about who they let into their homes.

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  • There is useful information on questionable therapies, and advice on how to spot bogus health scams and other quackery.

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  • Usually the bogus message provides a link for you to click on that will take you to a dummy site.

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  • Within 24 hours of that disaster, scammers had three bogus websites set up and to take donations.

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  • Look for typical signs of lying when you address the subject, such as avoiding your gaze, stuttering, giving a detailed story that sounds bogus, or looking down when speaking.

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  • Party posts are subject to approval before they go live which filters out superfluous or bogus events.

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  • Then there are the thousands of sham marriages and tens of thousands of bogus students, not to speak of one-legged roofers.

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  • This is a bogus scam that is doing the rounds on many websites, not just car related.

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  • They then siphoned cash from the comedian's genuine Halifax accounts into the bogus one.

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  • He also asked the lady's normal gardener for a business card, which was handed over to the bogus workman.

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  • There is useful information on questionable therapies, and advice on how to spot bogus health scams and other Quackery.

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  • They then siphoned cash from the comedian 's genuine Halifax accounts into the bogus one.

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  • The bogus commercials purporting to be in support of the various actresses nominated, which were classic political-style 'attack' ads a la the 'Swiftboat Veterans for Truth', were funny stuff.

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  • The problem is, the money is bogus and you're left worse off than before you participated in the scam.

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  • Most of these services are bogus, or at the very least contain outdated information that may or may not get you closer to contacting Dog the Bounty Hunter or any other celebrity.

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  • A bogus conspiracy, however, got up by the Holstein faction, aided by France and Prussia, who persuaded Elizabeth that the Austrian ambassador was intriguing to replace Ivan VI.

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  • The scientific community was of one voice that to consider a paranormal solution or the existence of a psychic tipster was totally bogus.

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  • It's shown that Labor's claim that it represents rural Britain is utterly bogus.

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  • The information contained in the email is totally bogus, the sender is attempting to defraud the recipient.

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  • The most costly frauds are those which are either entirely bogus or staged.

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  • Mr Justice David Steel, hearing the case at first instance, dismissed this excuse as " transparently bogus " .

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  • They would not have been trying to make the account seem bogus!

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  • Following (real) packets would be ignored as they are considered bogus.

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  • Spammers almost exclusively use bogus sending addresses so will not see the error message.

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  • Plans and individuals instituted its aetna you with a. Have to buy for circulating bogus chooses to have.

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  • I have personally seen bogus " death threats " he claims that were left on this vehicle at very opportune times.

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  • The third victim of bogus callers on February 8 was a 69 year old man living at Bucks Hill.

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  • The real risk is using an invalid analysis to reach a bogus conclusion.

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  • Tony Blair, that bogus spineless politician who runs our country.

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  • In the autumn of 1786 there was an encounter near the village of East Lee between about 250 adherents of Daniel Shays (many of them from Lee township) and a body of state troops under General John Paterson, wherein the Shays contingent paraded a bogus cannon (made of a yarn beam) with such effect that the state troops fled.

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  • The liberal measures of the protector were repealed, and new treasons were enacted; Somerset himself, who had been released and restored to the council in 1550, became an obstacle in Warwicks path, and was removed by means of a bogus plot, being executed in January 1552; while Warwick had himself made duke of Northumberland, his friend Dorset duke of Suffolk, and Herbert earl of Pembroke.

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  • In 1855 and again in 1857 the pro-slavery Territorial legislature passed an Act giving Lawrence a charter, but the people of Lawrence would not recognize that "bogus" government, and on the 13th of July 1857, after an application to the Topeka free-state legislature for a charter had been denied, adopted a city charter of their own.

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  • Her border counties furnished the bogus citizens who invaded Kansas to carry the first territorial elections, and soon guerrilla forays back and forth gave over the border to a carnival of crime and plunder.

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