To this I reply, first, that there is no fraud upon the royal treasury, inasmuch as the allowance made by it for four is insufficient for the support of three, as appears from the previous statements of what happened to me in Sevilla.
Although a treaty was concluded with the real consent of the parties, it is nevertheless not binding if the consent was given in error, or under a delusion produced by a fraud of the other contracting party.
All treaties must be interpreted so as to exclude fraud and so as to make their operation consistent with good faith.
Thus it stands out in bold relief as a system built up and maintained by fraud and force, bound in the course of nature to last only as long as the deception could be carried on and the repressive force kept up to sufficient strength.
It would make fraudprofitable by placing a premium rather than a penalty on crime; and it would make the sufferings of the truly unfortunate much keener by compelling them to yield their self-respect as the price of their succor.
He acquired property, and was on the point of exchanging land for diamonds at a jeweller’s, when the rumors of former fraud reached the place, and the police were set on his track.
One case is on record, in which release was all but secured by means of a forged authority, but at the last moment one document was missing, and when search was made for it among the papers in the office, the fraud was discovered.
I understand we make a fair Division, And have no Words nor Fraud among ourselves.
During the time that the Jacobites were formidable, and long after, it was firmly believed that the Old Pretender was brought into this room as a baby in a warming pan, and plans of the room were common to show how the fraud was committed.
Most of the houses were willing to receive letters in answer to advertisements, and from the nature of the latter must often, it is pretty certain, have been assisting parties to fraud and chicanery of various kind.
In a word, she saw plainly that the whole system of the modern hospital in great cities was a gigantic sham, a cruel fraud on the subscribers, and an atrocious delusion and a snare to the patients themselves.
So much charlatanism and fraud have always been mixed up with these things that it is not perhaps matter of much surprise that they are held in low esteem by men of science.
Then," said Mildred, "the fraud is on the patients.
However unwilling we may be to admit it, history forces upon us the recognition of pious fraud as a principle which was by no means inoperative in the earliest ages of Christianity.
Personally, he was soon convinced that fraud had nothing to do with the phenomena.
He has been a terrible enemy to fraud all his life.
If there is fraudin the case, Mrs Piper must be the most accomplished actress who has hitherto appeared.
In short, during the fifteen years the experiments have continued, all the suggestions made by sceptical and sometimes violent objectors have been kept in view, that the fraud might be discovered, if fraud there were.
The hypothesis of fraud being disposed of, recourse has been had to another, which it has also become necessary to abandon--that of the reading of muscular movements.
But there was an excellent way of putting the hypothesis of fraud out of question; it was to take Mrs Piper out of her habitual environment, to a country where she knew nobody.
However, he assured himself that fraud had nothing to do with the phenomena, but without taking all the minute precautions which others have since taken.
He (Mr Rich, senior) considers the episode very extraordinary and inexplicable, except by fraudof some kind.
But, since the hypothesis offraud and of unconscious muscular movement may not be invoked, where shall we find the source of the mass of exact information Mrs Piper gives us?
Must we suppose that Dame Telepathy is a mere incarnation of the demon of fraud and deceit?
Phinuit lied when he pretended to communicate with Hannah Wild's spirit; for there is no more reason here than elsewhere to suppose conscious fraud on Mrs Piper's part.
In their first interview at Carthage, the imaginary provocations were mutually explained; the opposite letters of Aetius were produced and compared; and the fraud was easily detected.
Yet, instead of assuming such honorable pride, the orthodox theologians were tempted, by the assurance of impunity, to compose fictions, which must be stigmatized with the epithets of fraud and forgery.
He practiced his customary arts of fraudand delay, but he practiced them without success.
The origin of this marvellous fable cannot be ascribed to the pious fraud and credulity of the modern Greeks, since the authentic tradition may be traced within half a century of the supposed miracle.
He has laboriously out vainly, attempted to form a reasonable system of jurisprudence from the various and discordant modes of royal succession, which have been introduced by fraud or force, by time or accident.
At a time when, from some fraud in a situation of trust which he had held in a French nobleman's family, he was in destitute and desperate circumstances, it occurred to Montreuil to provide for him by placing him in our family.
Let me be brief here on the black fraud that ensued.
From Oswald's prolix communication, I ascertained that Gerald was, during the whole of the interval between my uncle's death and my departure from England, utterly unacquainted with the fraud of the will.
My uncle's writing was copied exactly; and, save the departure from his apparent intentions in your favour, I believe not a particle in the effected fraud was calculated to excite suspicion.
Men guilty of this kind of fraud would justify it by saying that their religion transcends the wisdom of philosophers, and cannot submit to the criticism of historians.
Now the most severe exposure of the part played by this human element is found in histories which show the undeniable existence of sin, error, or fraud in the high places of the Church.
Ned himself felt that he could have no better evidence of fraud than was exhibited in the actions of these laborers.
The syndicate went through the police court where was unfolded a story sensational with surprising sums of money, captivating with ingenuity of fraud covered up by fraudto help new fraud again.
It is of course improper to try to extort a confession by fraud or under the promise of secrecy.
All express instructions he must carry out to the full, provided they do not involve fraud or illegality.
He was satisfied with invoking a Dictator, and he counseled this Dictator to meet the badness of his age with fraud and violence.
Alamanno's plot to raise a dower by fraud (La Sporta, iv.
When we consider the circumstances under which the Attic dramatists survived, taking into account the famousfraud whereby Ptolemy Euergetes possessed himself of the MS.
This is undoubtedly the case with the Ion, which presents a marvellous tale of human suffering, adventure, crime, and final felicity, dependent in all its details upon the fraud of a deity.
He could always be indicted for fraud or computer-intrusion, but there seemed little real point in this--he hadn't physically damaged any computer.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Task Force, led by federal prosecutor William J.
First, it offered a chance to get ahead of the curve on wire-fraud crimes.
This last accusation (taken directly from a press release by the Chicago Computer Fraud and Abuse Task Force) sounds particularly far-fetched.
Kluepfel, a veteran expert witness in telecommunicationsfraud and computer-fraud cases, had certainly seen worse trouble than this.
The Secret Service, and the Chicago Computer Fraud and Abuse Task Force, said absolutely nothing to Steve Jackson about any threat to the police 911 System.
The term "hacking" is used routinely today by almost all law enforcement officials with any professional interest in computer fraud and abuse.
The Chicago Computer Fraud and Abuse Task Force had been assured that the E911 Document was worth a hefty sum of money.
Unlike the efforts of the Chicago Computer Fraud and Abuse Task Force, "Operation Sundevil" was not intended to combat "hacking" in the sense of computer intrusion or sophisticated raids on telco switching stations.
But 1990's war on the Legion of Doom was led out of Illinois, by the Chicago Computer Fraudand Abuse Task Force.
Others are embarrassed by their vulnerabilities, and will take strong measures to avoid any publicity; this is especially true of banks, who fear a loss of investor confidence should an embezzlement-case or wire-fraud surface.
How universal this form of fraudis in the manufacturing districts, a couple of extracts from the Manchester Guardian may serve to show.
Fraud is practiced in the sale of articles of every sort: flannel, stockings, etc.
Besides his frauds of malignity, of fear, of interest, and of vanity, there were frauds which he seems to have committed from a love of fraud alone.
If, on the contrary, the allegation of the poet was a wilful untruth, this additional misrepresentation must lead us to conclude that he was the author of a fraud from which he defended himself by falsehood.
And the Church, well, I regard it as the greatest fraud ever perpetrated upon the human race.
Set in brilliant jewels, in a resplendent gilded shrine, these whitened relics, which Bishop Reinald is believed to have discovered in the twelfth century, seemed to mock him in the very boldness of the pious fraud which they externalized.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fraud" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
