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Unfortunately, while accusing these folks of "statistical legerdemain," Ravitch commits the sin of rhetorical tromperie: none of her targets allege anything miraculous.
Peter Meyer: The New Achievement Standard: Divine Intervention! Peter Meyer 2011
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Unfortunately, while accusing these folks of "statistical legerdemain," Ravitch commits the sin of rhetorical tromperie: none of her targets allege anything miraculous.
Peter Meyer: The New Achievement Standard: Divine Intervention! Peter Meyer 2011
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Unfortunately, while accusing these folks of "statistical legerdemain," Ravitch commits the sin of rhetorical tromperie: none of her targets allege anything miraculous.
Peter Meyer: The New Achievement Standard: Divine Intervention! Peter Meyer 2011
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Unfortunately, while accusing these folks of "statistical legerdemain," Ravitch commits the sin of rhetorical tromperie: none of her targets allege anything miraculous.
Peter Meyer: The New Achievement Standard: Divine Intervention! Peter Meyer 2011
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Suggesting the Democrates are politically naive is a stupid tromperie towards America .... he is good on that, he already did the same with the Irak issue.
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Une tromperie quant à la vision et aux potentialités de l'internet.
Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert
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And Violenta by the common opinion of the Judges was condempned to be beheaded: not only for that she had presumed to punishe the knightes tromperie and offence, but for her excessiue crueltie doen vpon the dead body.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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_Pish_ and _pshaw_ are the Anglo-Saxon _paec, paeca_; and are equivalent to _trumpery_! i.e. _tromperie_, from _tromper_.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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Of course, in religious more than in any other matters, there is a perpetual contradiction between our thoughts and our deeds which is inevitable to our social order, and is bound to lead to _cette tromperie mutuelle_ of which Pascal speaks.
Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888
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[105] Cinq livres de l'imposture et tromperie des diables.
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833
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