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We need to separate trumped-up fears from the legitimate ones.
Ebola, ISIS, the Border: So Much to Fear, So Little Time! | Gene Robinson | November 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe depositions of other officers suggested that the “property damage” charges were not just bizarre, but trumped up.
The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie | Michael Daly | August 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThree Al Jazeera journalists have been jailed in Egypt on trumped-up charges of collaborating with the Muslim Brotherhood.
No issue better captures the dysfunction of Washington than the trumped up debate over the Keystone XL pipeline.
It explains why a trumped up story of online vitriol—we are, mind you, talking about Jeopardy!
Inside the Misunderstood Mind of Jeopardy! Champ Arthur Chu, Who Is Not Ruining the Show | Sujay Kumar | February 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut he failed to impose upon the Colonel, and was even far from impressing him with this trumped-up knowledge of bygone days.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate Chopin"It is a cowardly pretext on the part of the citizens, trumped up to save their property for the Yankees," said he.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.Robber raids they called these wars which he waged for trumped-up pretexts.
A German Pompadour | Marie HayWith the connivance of a corrupt police force, Tim can even ruin him on a trumped-up charge.
The Old World in the New | Edward Alsworth RossThen she began to ask herself if he had spoken the truth, or had trumped up this story to frighten her?
File No. 113 | Emile Gaboriau
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