The head of the Washington office of Human Rights Watch stated al-Libi was " Exhibit A " in hearings on the relationship between pre-Iraq War false intelligence and torture.

But on the death of John he was away in Egypt for the practice of magic, and one Dositheus, by spreading a false report of Simon's death, succeeded in installing himself as head of the sect.

Hatshepsut assumed all of the regalia and symbols of the pharaonic office in official representations: the Khat head cloth, topped with the uraeus, the traditional false beard, and shendyt kilt.

* In Divine Comedy ( Inferno, Canto XX ), Dante sees Tiresias in the fourth pit of the eighth circle of Hell ( the circle is for perpetrators of fraud and the fourth pit being the location for astrologers, sorcerers, soothsayers, diviners, and false prophets who claim to see the future when they couldn't ) He was condemned to walk for eternity with his head twisted toward his back ; while in life he strove to look forward to the future, in Hell he must only look backward.

Masauwu told them that eventually the Pahana would return bringing the broken-off corner of the stone, but if in the meantime a Hopi leader accepted a false religion, he must assent to having his head cut off as drawn on the stone.

Rounds include " true or false ", the filmclip round, the impressions round and " The Dove from Above " (" The Blue Suitcase " in the pilot, and later briefly replaced by " The Crow From Below ", " The Vest From the West ", " George Dawes from the Upper Floors ," " Donald Cox – The Sweaty Fox ," " The Fly From Upon High " and " The Beast From The East " using the head of Ron Atkinson as well as various other one-off ideas ).

This was aided by the simple yet effective conceit of a false arm attached to Hull's jacket, which cradled the emu, therefore making it appear that the neck and head moved of its own volition.

In the movie he takes only one false form — that of a giant head.

Svoboda was replaced with Jan Kubiš after a head injury during training, causing delays in the mission, as Kubiš had not completed training nor had the necessary false documents been prepared for him.

An investigating judge said that Gomes had not provided any proof for his claim of Vieira's involvement, and on 20 December 2007 it was announced that Gomes had been charged with false testimony and slandering the head of state.

The Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, and the head of the London Beth Din, Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu, responded that, because of what they considered to be Jacobs's heretical beliefs, " they believed that had Jacobs uttered the words ' Our God who gave us the Torah of truth ', he would have made a false statement ".

The hero has often cut out the tongue of the dragon, so when the false hero cuts off its head, his claim to have killed it is refuted by its lack of a tongue ; the hero produces the tongue and so proves his claim to marry the princess.

In March 1994, Belgium charged him with being " the instigator or the head of a criminal organisation " and two charges of using false passports.

The head of the Government of Ontario had given false witness under testimony ....

American football head coach Bill Parcells earned the nickname " The Big Tuna " when he responded to an obviously false statement from a player with the incredulous " Who do you think I am?

The thorny devil also features a spiny " false head " on the back of its neck, and the lizard presents this to potential predators by dipping its real head.

The thorny devil also has a false head on its back.

When it feels threatened by other animals or birds, it lowers its head between its frontlegs, and then presents its false head.

The Four-eyed Butterflyfish's first instinct when threatened is to flee, putting the false eye spot closer to the predator than the head.

He speaks of the Reconstruction policy being built on “ a false foundation .” He seeks to play a role in forming a more solid foundation based upon “ the hand, head, and heart .”

The cyathia or false flowers, are located in clusters at the head of the stalk and are yellowish green.

The filter might also provide a false sense of security for parents, who might supervise children less while using the Internet, achieving the exact opposite effect.

This cumulative effect of the errors in the Julian calendar's solar year and lunar age has led to the often-repeated, but false, belief that the Julian cycle includes an explicit rule requiring Easter always to follow Jewish Passover.

This response to the paradox is, in effect, the rejection of the claim that every statement has to be either true or false, also known as the principle of bivalence, a concept related to the law of the excluded middle.

It is also called the alternative denial, since it says in effect that at least one of its operands is false.

This helps to avoid false inferences of causality due to the presence of a third, underlying, variable that influences both the potentially causative variable and the potentially caused variable: its effect on the potentially caused variable is captured by directly including it in the regression, so that effect will not be picked up as an indirect effect through the potentially causative variable of interest.

Many have false eye-spots to enhance this effect.

For the structuralists, this was a false problem, and the " depth " of experience could in fact only be an effect of structures which are not themselves experiential.

Such rhetorical devices, discussed in more detail below, are: " ignoring the question " to divert argument to unrelated issues using a red herring ; making the argument personal ( argumentum ad hominem ) and discrediting the opposition's character, " begging the question " ( petitio principi ), the use of the non-sequitur, false cause and effect ( post hoc ergo propter hoc ), bandwagoning ( everyone says so ), the " false dilemma " or " either-or fallacy " in which the situation is oversimplified, " card-stacking " or selective use of facts, " false equivalence ", and " false analogy ".

In spite of widespread speculation that Roberts only agreed to join the court's majority in upholding New Deal legislation, such as the Social Security Act, during the spring of 1937 because of the court packing plan, Hughes wrote in his autobiographical notes that Roosevelt's court reform proposal " had not the slightest effect on our court's decision " in the Parrish case and that the delayed announcement of the decision created the false impression that the Court had retreated under fire.

Biased search, interpretation and memory have been invoked to explain attitude polarization ( when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence ), belief perseverance ( when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false ), the irrational primacy effect ( a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series ) and illusory correlation ( when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations ).

In negative theology, it is accepted that the Divine is ineffable, an abstract experience that can only be recognized or remembered — that is, human beings cannot describe in words the essence of the perfect good that is unique to the individual, nor can they define the Divine, in its immense complexity, related to the entire field of reality, and therefore all descriptions if attempted will be ultimately false and conceptualization should be avoided ; in effect, it eludes definition by definition:

'-- in effect, it is high time that we should understand that such judgments must be believed to be true, for the sake of the preservation of creatures like ourselves ; though they still might naturally be false judgments!

The single version of the song contains a tape echo effect throughout and a coda after a false ending, with the lyrics " Get back Loretta / Your mommy's waiting for you / Wearing her high-heel shoes / And her low-neck sweater / Get back home, Loretta.

The placebo effect in this perspective arises when false information about medications misleads the health management system about the likelihood of getting well so that it selects not to deploy an evolved self-treatment.

When the German distributor of the program took legal action to forbid publishing this rating, c't followed up with an exhaustive test showing that the program had virtually no effect other than giving false information about system statistics.

The capitalist economy ’ s arrangement of the relations of production provokes social conflict by pitting worker against worker, in a competition for “ higher wages ”, thereby alienating them from their mutual economic interests ; the effect is a false consciousness, which is a form of ideologic control exercised by the capitalist bourgeoisie.

This implies that after adjusting for multiple comparisons, the Mars effect is no longer statistically significant even at the modest significance level of 0. 05 and is probably a false positive.

The risk of false judgement is further increased by the foreshortening effect, which occurs when the distance between the attacking player and the assistant referee is significantly different from the distance to the defending player, and the assistant referee is not directly in line with the defender.

Although false statements lack inherent value, the " breathing space " that freedom of expression requires in order to flourish must tolerate occasional false statements, lest there be an intolerable chilling effect on speech that does have constitutional value.

Conventional images of Jews have this in common with all perceptions of a configuration in which one feature is held constant: images can be both true and false.

the prolusion in which the autobiographic statement about the epithet occurs is such a mass of intentionally buried allusions that almost nothing in it can be accepted as true -- or discarded as false.

Although the false glamour surrounding bourbon or other whisky commercials is possibly no more fatuous than the pseudo-sophistication with which TV soft-drinks are downed or toothpaste applied, there is a sad difference between enticing a viewer into sipping Oopsie-Cola and gulling him into downing bourbon.

The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.

Senator Mundt's gross distortion of President Eisenhower's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to be entirely false, is another case in point.

In addition, it is an important link in the plot, giving us a revealing glimpse of the people's attitude toward Boris and the false Dimitri.

It is false to be certain of having discovered in the language of Beowulf such effects as intentional irony.

Money, so important a theme elsewhere in Dickens, is here central, and hands are often associated in some way with the false values -- acquisitiveness, snobbery, self-interest, hypocrisy, toadyism, irresponsibility, injustice -- that attach to a society based upon the pursuit of wealth.

These cases, for all their rarity, are so dramatic that friends and relations repeat the story until the general population may get an entirely false notion of how often the hymen is a serious problem to newly-weds.

The false reasoning is that a gradual advance prolongs the pain while a swift powerful act gets it over with and leaves the girl pleased with his virility and grateful for his decisiveness in settling the problem once and for all.

Thus, if what is at issue is whether `` All S is P '', it is indifferent whether `` Some S is not P '' or `` No S is P '', since in either case the judgment in question is false.

An argument of this form is invalid, i. e., the conclusion can be false even when statements 1 and 2 are true.

One way to demonstrate the invalidity of this argument form is with a counterexample with true premises but an obviously false conclusion.

The lawyer is an officer of the court and knows that a false swearing by him, if found out, could be grounds for severe penalty up to and including disbarment.

The debate is interesting enough, however, that it is considered of note when a theorem in ZFC ( ZF plus AC ) is logically equivalent ( with just the ZF axioms ) to the axiom of choice, and mathematicians look for results that require the axiom of choice to be false, though this type of deduction is less common than the type which requires the axiom of choice to be true.