Everyone wants to see financial accounting get closer to the truth -- and everyone has his own idea of what "the truth" is.
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When it comes to brokerage, it is no simple task to establish whether your manager is telling you the truth or has his own best interests in mind.
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The truth that God has his eye on the sparrow means that the space between the sparrow and outer space is impossible for us to see as God sees it.
The old joke that the way to render an Italian speechless is to tie his hands together has a kernel of truth in it.
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Indeed, given the limited role of a grand jury in our system and the total absence of procedural protections in the process, the Independent Counsel's insistence that his investigation has been a search for "truth" is deeply misleading.
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In truth the king has always been capable of showing his displeasure at coups when it suited him, by rallying troops or by dragging his feet in accepting their outcome.
Mr Robinson has done his cause no good by swinging alarmingly from economy with the truth to threats of writs to a charm offensive.
He said telling the truth has been cathartic for him, while expressing understanding about his former teammate's continued denials.
The attorney said his client has fully cooperated with authorities in the investigation and looks forward to the truth coming out.
He has said he shouldn't have lied but wanted to keep the truth from his then-pregnant wife, Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
There is truth to all these criticisms, and Mr Berger has since pulled back from his more extreme positions.
"My feeling is that he came forward because he's been in a pretty bad place since the truth has emerged, and the only way that he can rebuild to begin his life is to make a full confession of all the things he did, " Walsh said.
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But by letting his guests spout off unchallenged, leaving the impression they were telling the truth, he has occasionally caused lasting damage.
In recent interviews, he has said he shouldn't have lied but did it because he wanted to keep the truth from his then-pregnant wife, Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
His biographer, an historian at the University of Illinois, has done a wonderful job in sifting out the truth of Rustin's life from the fiction, and in celebrating the man's extraordinary physical and moral courage.
After spending their careers blurring truth and fiction, many retired agents are challenged by life after the CIA. Mendez has focused his energies on painting, on his book, and on spending more time with his wife, also a retired CIA agent and former chief of disguise.
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