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  • Those videos were created for propaganda purposes.   (source)
  • The British and the Russians are probably exaggerating for propaganda purposes, just like the Germans.   (source)
    propaganda = to influence opinions with biased information
  • In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda.   (source)
    propaganda = one-sided information spread to influence opinions
  • Why was that old fellow such a marvellous propaganda technician?   (source)
  • I will immediately notify the propaganda consul and direct him to repeatedly publicize this scientific fact to the world.†   (source)
  • Some people say water is back on in the upper hundreds, but maybe it's propaganda, maybe they want to keep us here.†   (source)
  • But that was mere propaganda.†   (source)
  • "Don't tell me your family believes that Government propaganda stuff," she said.†   (source)
  • There's also anti-Colonies propaganda.†   (source)
  • If you have a sister back home, you're supposed to think of her as a pretty girl in a propaganda poster: rosy-cheeked, brave, steadfast.†   (source)
  • "It was all propaganda," added Ishmael.†   (source)
  • Usually we only watch when it's mandatory, because the mixture of propaganda and displays of the Capitol's power—including clips from seventy-four years of Hunger Games—is so odious.†   (source)
  • (to me) I see they already have you spouting off their populist propaganda like a good little girl†   (source)
  • Some indeed were smuggled to England, for propaganda use by the various Save the Women societies, of which there were many in the British Isles at that time.†   (source)
  • Nazi propaganda portrayed the events of that night as a spontaneous demonstration against Jews as retaliation for the killing of a German diplomat in Paris by a young Jew named Herschel Grynszpan.†   (source)
  • Right at the entrance to our alley, where you could not help noticing it, stood the propaganda wall.†   (source)
  • Even the most amateur propagandist could conjure sinister implications.†   (source)
  • And then there's advertising, propaganda, and paradigms.†   (source)
  • He was politically astute, and the head of the propaganda department for the Building Materials Bureau in Qingdao.†   (source)
  • "This is propaganda," I spat, remembering the word from Dad's tattered history book.†   (source)
  • How could such a thing be possible when our propaganda had told us that German aircraft and tanks were made of cardboard, and ran on synthetic fuel that wasn't even fit for cigarette lighters?†   (source)
  • A hospital was turned into an insurgent headquarters and used as a base of operations for the insurgents' propaganda machine.†   (source)
  • We thought we'd found the location of Aidid's Radio Mogadishu, where he transmitted operation orders, how to fire mortars, and propaganda.†   (source)
  • He and the others have turned the campus into a propaganda camp.†   (source)
  • The publication was presumably put together by the firm's advertising department, and it was filled with propaganda that was supposed to make the employees feel that they were members of one big family.†   (source)
  • The Duke slapped the propaganda man on the arm, a signal that the message had top priority to be put out immediately, then continued across the room.†   (source)
  • "Propaganda!" she said, and scribbled the name and address of this doctor on a prescription pad.†   (source)
  • We suspected that many of the university students who bought our ink were Communist revolutionaries making propaganda posters that would appear on walls in the middle of the night.†   (source)
  • This is adult propaganda; these are adult arguments.†   (source)
  • The house filled with political propaganda and with the members of his party, who practically took it by storm, blending in with the hallway ghosts, the Rosicrucians, and the three Mora sisters.†   (source)
  • Reset the Bureau, and reprogram them without the propaganda, without the disdain for GDs.†   (source)
  • This consisted of propaganda films, scenes shot at party congresses, outtakes from mystical epics featuring parades of gymnasts and mountaineers—a collection I'd edited into an impressionistic eighty-minute documentary.†   (source)
  • For instance, I recall overhearing at dinner one evening, when a particular newspaper had been mentioned, his lordship remarking: "Oh, you mean that Jewish propaganda sheet."†   (source)
  • During World War II, Walt Disney produced scores of military training and propaganda films, including Food Will Win the War, High-Level Precision Bombing, and A Few Quick Facts About Venereal Disease.†   (source)
  • Such propaganda is calculated to keep us fighting one another instead of uniting to combat Nationalist oppression.†   (source)
  • "Actually," the Seeker broke in, "it is very clearly stated in all recruitment propaganda that assimilating the remaining adult human hosts is much more challenging than assimilating a child.†   (source)
  • It was written by a former American who had risen high in the German Ministry of Propaganda.†   (source)
  • How could she get through, pierce his defenses, penetrate this propaganda he'd been fed all these years?†   (source)
  • Let's not turn this into an American propaganda circus!†   (source)
  • Three years of wartime propaganda—racist headlines, atrocity movies, hate slogans, and fright-mask posters—had turned the Japanese face into something despicable and grotesque.†   (source)
  • The ymbrynes have been feeding you lies and propaganda for a hundred years.†   (source)
  • Khanum Shaheen's job was to think, teach, and preach anti-American propaganda.†   (source)
  • "Back to Astaroth" had become a popular expression in Blys, another snippet of propaganda suggesting that the Demon was the divine singularity.†   (source)
  • I thought the Americans were coming, and I jumped up and ran downstairs to find that the only thing that had dropped onto Haiti that night were transistor radios, which the U.S. government had parachuted down as instruments of propaganda.†   (source)
  • The letter in the Massachusetts Spy—a letter quoted repeatedly—was very likely a fake, fabricated as propaganda.†   (source)
  • Milo purchased spot radio announcements on Axis Sally's and Lord Haw Haw's daily propaganda broadcasts from Berlin to keep things moving.†   (source)
  • Though he would never say so himself, he has single-handedly changed the lives of tens of thousands of children, and independently won more hearts and minds than all the official American propaganda flooding the region.†   (source)
  • Using the deceptively neutral term "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," Japanese propaganda claimed that Japan's aim was to free its neighbors from white colonial rule.†   (source)
  • She talked about camp— swimming, arts and crafts, LDS propaganda.†   (source)
  • It's all propaganda.†   (source)
  • But Lou Ann had bought the company propaganda, hook, line, and sinker.†   (source)
  • The speakers wired to the walls crackled to life, and I groaned as more multi-culti propaganda began to assault our ears.†   (source)
  • You need to counter the propaganda against you with your own campaign before trying any kind of a comeback.†   (source)
  • Did they believe their own propaganda?†   (source)
  • The invasion also provided the extremists an ideal basis for a well-orchestrated campaign of virulent anti-Tutsi propaganda.†   (source)
  • Were he a real Truth-seeker and not a propagandist for a particular point of view he would not.†   (source)
  • You know how frequently and how usefully they have been mentioning it in all of their propaganda.†   (source)
  • As numbers increased we shifted to high speed on agitprop, black-propaganda rumors, open subversion, provocateur activities, and sabotage.†   (source)
  • And if that sounds like a crock of today's Communist propaganda, it was a classic case of yesterday's provocation that gave rise to such bilge.†   (source)
  • Language, however, does not belong to the illiterate or to bodies of people forming tendentious and propagandistic interest groups, determined to use it for what they (usually mistakenly) believe to be their advantage.†   (source)
  • Therefore, negative propaganda can make members of the executive branch unpopular.†   (source)
  • The antebellum propaganda war between North and South had created in southern minds an image of the hated Yankees as an amalgam of money-grubbing mudsill Black Republican abolitionist Goths and Vandals.†   (source)
  • During her one and only appearance in an ISIS propaganda video, her face had been veiled.†   (source)
  • What kind of wisdom can overcome the immense propaganda of the racists and the hate groups?†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I think you may be well shut of your employment at McGraw-Hill, which by your own account sounded fairly grim, the firm anyway being notoriously little else but the mouthpiece and the propaganda outlet for the commercial robber barons who have preyed on the American people for a hundred years and more.†   (source)
  • It was true that the propaganda about Man's enslavement was no more than propaganda.†   (source)
  • Task Group 6.7's primary mission was to take station in Iskenderun Gulf and give heart to the Turks, who were under heavy political and propaganda pressure.†   (source)
  • You've been making all this propaganda to get these rumours started!†   (source)
  • When at the beginning of the revolution it had been feared that, as in 1905, the upheaval would be a short-lived episode in the history of the educated upper classes and leave the deeper layers of society untouched, everything possible had been done to spread revolutionary propaganda among the people to upset them, to stir them up and lash them into fury.†   (source)
  • Never in my lifetime has applause done me the good that did...There was, in the hearts of the common people, a belief that underneath the deception and the misrepresentation, the political power and the influence, there was something artificial about the propaganda.†   (source)
  • More a delayed action than a straight propaganda tune.†   (source)
  • It was one of twelve propaganda programs conducted in English and broadcast to Allied troops.   (source)
    propaganda = one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions
  • "By God, this is terrible propaganda against our school!" he told my mother.   (source)
    propaganda = one-sided information spread to influence opinions
  • The propaganda and bloodshed had worked.   (source)
  • It read, FOLLOWING ENEMY PROPAGANDA BROADCAST FROM JAPAN HAS BEEN INTERCEPTED.   (source)
    propaganda = one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions
  • This is the propaganda of the followers of Mullah Fazlullah.   (source)
    propaganda = one-sided information spread to influence opinions
  • As Sylvia jumped up, Louie swore at the voice, yelling something about propaganda prisoners.   (source)
    propaganda = related to one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions
  • The Japanese had written it themselves or forced a propaganda prisoner to do so.   (source)
  • As Louie held out his hand, the propaganda prisoners dropped their eyes to the floor.   (source)
  • The cast was made up of D-list television stars who cheerfully spouted corporate propaganda while relating the minutiae of IOI's indenturement policy.   (source)
    propaganda = one-sided information spread to influence opinions
  • They were the most devious propaganda of all: fables in which evil is represented by collectives who rustle and rob; while virtue is a lone individual who risks his life to defend the sanctity of someone else's private property.   (source)
    propaganda = false information spread to influence opinions
  • He began to use the video room, filled with propaganda vids about Mazer Rackham and other great commanders of the forces of humanity in the First and Second Invasion.   (source)
    propaganda = one-sided information spread to influence opinions
  • Propaganda even reached the bathroom.   (source)
  • —propaganda informed him that it was only a matter of time before a plague of Jewish tailors showed up and stole his customers.   (source)
  • Unlike French, Spanish, and Italian, which were rooted in Latin—the tongue of the Vatican—English was linguistically removed from Rome's propaganda machine, and therefore became a sacred, secret tongue for those brotherhoods educated enough to learn it.   (source)
  • It was run by two brothers, Abdul Aziz and Abdul Rashid, and had become a center for spreading propaganda about bin Laden, whom Abdul Rashid had met in Kandahar when visiting Mullah Omar.   (source)
    propaganda = one-sided information to influence opinions
  • An intensive propaganda against viviparous reproduction …   (source)
    propaganda = information intended to influence opinions
  • And all the science propaganda we do at the College …   (source)
    propaganda = creation of information intended to influence opinions
  • 'On the Use of Rhymes in Moral Propaganda and Advertisement,' to be precise.   (source)
    propaganda = information intended to influence opinions
  • Bernard landed on the roof of Propaganda House and stepped out.   (source)
    propaganda = to create information intended to influence opinions
  • "That old fellow," he said, "he makes our best propaganda technicians look absolutely silly."   (source)
    propaganda = information intended to influence opinions
  • It was a museum used for propaganda displays of various kinds — scale models of rocket bombs and Floating Fortresses, waxwork tableaux illustrating enemy atrocities, and the like.   (source)
  • Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed.   (source)
    propaganda = one-sided information spread to influence opinions
  • His voice, made metallic by the amplifiers, boomed forth an endless catalogue of atrocities, massacres, deportations, lootings, rapings, torture of prisoners, bombing of civilians, lying propaganda, unjust aggressions, broken treaties.   (source)
  • Then came the Bureaux of Propaganda by Television, by Feeling Picture, and by Synthetic Voice and Music respectively–twenty-two floors of them.   (source)
    propaganda = to create information intended to influence opinions
  • The various Bureaux of Propaganda and the College of Emotional Engineering were housed in a single sixty-story building in Fleet Street.   (source)
  • Three charming girls from the Bureau of Propaganda by Synthetic Voice waylaid him as he stepped out of the lift.   (source)
  • "Besides," he added more gravely, "I wanted to do a bit of propaganda; I was trying to engineer them into feeling as I'd felt when I wrote the rhymes."   (source)
    propaganda = influence opinions
  • Not unlike the German propaganda machine, which is cranking out lies twenty-four hours a day!†   (source)
    propaganda = one-sided information that is purposefully spread to influence opinions
  • Great propaganda for Hitler.†   (source)
  • It's a confirmed listing in both the Uficcio della Propaganda delle Fede—†   (source)
  • That's what it sounded like in the propaganda.†   (source)
  • "My propaganda corps is one of the finest," the Duke said.†   (source)
  • But propaganda ensured we believed that the Chinese model ballets were the world's best.†   (source)
  • "So you got the propaganda from both sides," he said.†   (source)
  • "They're at least as relevant as your propaganda lecture," Ishmael's mother replied.†   (source)
  • Was this about the propaganda group again?†   (source)
  • Of course, the people of 2 swallowed the Capitol's propaganda more easily than the rest of us.†   (source)
  • "But that was just propaganda," Nico said.†   (source)
  • One man kept shouting propaganda slogans with a handheld speaker.†   (source)
  • They could have used his face for one of their propaganda films—he's that inscrutable.†   (source)
  • That was just propaganda invented by my enemies.†   (source)
  • One of them put a wooden washboard on the sunny ground in front of the propaganda wall.†   (source)
  • "I've seen the propaganda you've flooded into sietch and village," Kynes said.†   (source)
  • The notice posted next to the propaganda wall drew everyone's attention.†   (source)
  • I thought maybe that was why he was head of the propaganda department.†   (source)
  • High grades, propaganda group—and then what?†   (source)
  • All were full of propaganda and all were controlled by the Gang of Four.†   (source)
  • The officials and Red Guards handed out propaganda papers.†   (source)
  • I also knew a few propaganda words and some communist expressions that might come in handy.†   (source)
  • Egyptologists believe this was just a lot of propaganda, but in fact it was often literally true.†   (source)
  • I couldn't even hear the propaganda blaring from the speakers anymore.†   (source)
  • One that teaches facts rather than propaganda.†   (source)
  • "Propaganda?" exclaims my mum in outrage.†   (source)
  • He had an extensive library, divided between medical tomes and Islamic propaganda.†   (source)
  • But it's treason, ruin, disloyalty, selfishness and big-business propaganda!†   (source)
  • Now attack had come, and propaganda had to be varied to fit.†   (source)
  • The PAC members derided this at the time as ANC propaganda.†   (source)
  • American reports of atrocities were often propaganda, but many were also quite accurate.†   (source)
  • So Mike could program rock-throwing to suit time needed for propaganda.†   (source)
  • Yes, I do, despite propaganda all through school about how patriotism is obsolete.†   (source)
  • DUDARD: [interrupting his work] What propaganda?†   (source)
  • That doesn't sound like Soviet propaganda to me," Randy said.†   (source)
  • Anything to counter their filthy propaganda.†   (source)
  • BERENGER: [breaking in] No question of any propaganda.†   (source)
  • This was only to keep Laila a step or two ahead of her class, not because he disapproved of the work assigned by the school-the propaganda teaching notwithstanding.†   (source)
  • Propaganda.†   (source)
  • Langdon could already tell that the video was an unfair piece of propaganda, omitting all the noblest aspects of the initiation and highlighting only the most disconcerting.†   (source)
  • They're tied to the course of Western civilization, even though that whole concept is imperialist Eurocentric propaganda, man.†   (source)
  • Political considerations, mostly driven by wildly distorted media reports and a lot of Arab propaganda, caused the Marines to back off their offensive soon after it was begun, and well before it achieved its aim of kicking the insurgents out of the city.†   (source)
  • Werner can receive the BBC from the north and propaganda stations from the south; sometimes he manages to snare random flits of Morse code.†   (source)
  • Today they caught a spy from the Colonies who was secretly spreading propaganda about "how the Republic is lying to you!"†   (source)
  • However, they have a long history in China as tools of propaganda as well as protest both before and after the Cultural Revolution.†   (source)
  • There was nothing demonic or unclean about them, no reason for them to be subjected to such violence, but the message on Nazi propaganda posters plastered all over the city told a different story.†   (source)
  • As of now, the appropriate authorities have already given their clear judgment: The book is a toxic piece of reactionary propaganda.†   (source)
  • To make a series of what we call propos—which is short for 'propaganda spots'—featuring you, and broadcast them to the entire population of Panem.†   (source)
  • They're just propaganda.†   (source)
  • For five days he hears nothing on his transceiver but anthems and recorded propaganda and broadcasts from beleaguered colonels requesting supplies, gasoline, men.†   (source)
  • He recognized a propaganda corpsman, stopped to give him a message that could be relayed to the men through channels: those who had brought their women would want to know the women were safe and where they could be found.†   (source)
  • Within the university, intense conflicts erupted between the Red Guards, the Cultural Revolution Working Group, the Workers' Propaganda Team, and the Military Propaganda Team.†   (source)
  • Translator's Note: This refers to the August 1967 editorial in Red Flag magazine (an important source of propaganda during the Cultural Revolution), which advocated for "pulling out the handful [of counter-revolutionaries] within the army."†   (source)
  • Only the propaganda group office was ablaze with light, like a brightly lit cabin in the middle of a dark and silent forest.†   (source)
  • I passed the propaganda wall and could not help glancing at the ground where Old Qian had knelt yesterday.†   (source)
  • It was a long drive, and one of the teachers suggested we sing propaganda songs as we went along, and this too temporarily kept my attention.†   (source)
  • He just wants to talk to them about joining the propaganda group for the blackboard newspaper, because they both have beautiful handwriting.†   (source)
  • Now every morning as I returned from the market in the cool morning air, I saw a group at the foot of the propaganda wall.†   (source)
  • But even after hearing years of fearful propaganda about America and the West, the book was enough to plant a seed of curiosity in my heart.†   (source)
  • This must surely be Western propaganda.†   (source)
  • There were several Red Guard Committee members and key people from the propaganda group, along with several members of the Revolutionary Performance Team and the Mao Ze-dong Thought Study Group.†   (source)
  • I saw her grandma standing by the window in her black clothes; Old Qian, collapsed at the foot of the propaganda wall; Xiao-cheng's father, arms wrenched behind his back; Ming-ming's father, dangling in the air, his tongue dangling out of his bruised, purple face.†   (source)
  • The government's propaganda machine went into full swing and the Chinese media boasted of nothing else.†   (source)
  • Now I knew, with absolute certainty, that I had been manipulated by Chairman Mao's communist propaganda for many years.†   (source)
  • The Propaganda Wall†   (source)
  • During those school years of mine, the central government released Mao's newest propaganda campaigns one after another.†   (source)
  • I didn't think of it as another propaganda campaign to secure our loyalty to Mao and his communist state.†   (source)
  • I knew what he said was true—he had spent the best part of his youth pursuing nothing but propaganda.†   (source)
  • But I did notice that the attacks on America's evil capitalist values by the Chinese propaganda machines eased considerably while President Nixon was there.†   (source)
  • There was also the Reference Paper, but this was only available to a certain level of Communist Party member, and it included slightly more international news and slightly less propaganda.†   (source)
  • I didn't learn much academic stuff at all during my time at school, except the many propaganda phrases and songs, and many of those I didn't even understand.†   (source)
  • We could hear an extraordinary noise as we got close—loud drums, cymbals, trumpets, instruments of all kinds mixed in with the exuberant, feverish shouting of propaganda slogans.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, in the middle of the drinking binge, my big uncle, my niang's eldest brother who was head of the propaganda department for the Qingdao Building Materials Bureau, made a request and everyone cheered him on.†   (source)
  • Once or, if we were lucky, twice a year, a small group of people from the Qingdao Propaganda Bureau would come to our village to entertain us with a movie about things likeMao's Red Army triumphing against the Japanese army, or Chiang Kaishek's Guomindang regime, or the struggle against the class enemies, or touching stories about Mao's revolutionary heroes.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist regarded P. G. Vinge's memoir as propaganda, written in self-defence by a severely criticized Säpo chief who was eventually fired.†   (source)
  • No matter what propaganda they put out for the folks at home, you and I know that the Bugs aren't ready to quit.†   (source)
  • Determined to improve European understanding of the American cause, he became, with Vergennes's sanction, his own office of information and propaganda, supplying anonymous articles to the Mercure de France, a weekly journal edited by Edme-Jacques Genet of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.†   (source)
  • He also stole away at night to the bar in San Lucas, where he met with certain union leaders who had a passion for fixing the world's troubles between sips of beer, or with the huge, magnificent Father Jose Dulce Maria, a Spanish priest with a head full of revolutionary ideas that had earned him the honor of being relegated by the Society of Jesus to that hidden corner of the world, although that didn't keep him from transforming biblical parables into Socialist propaganda.†   (source)
  • They want the streets to flow with blood; your blood, black blood and white blood, so that they can turn your death and sorrow and defeat into propaganda.†   (source)
  • There was only the matter of her confession, which would be recorded for dissemination on ISIS's myriad propaganda platforms, and her execution, which would be by beheading.†   (source)
  • Over the last few years, his lordship has probably been the single most useful pawn Herr Hitler has had in this country for his propaganda tricks.†   (source)
  • Edmund Charles Genet, the audacious new envoy from Jacobin France, was the son of Edme Genet, the French foreign office translator, with whom Adams had once worked in Paris, turning out propaganda for the American Revolution.†   (source)
  • All their young lives their heads had been filled by military propaganda, in grade school, high school, and now in the army.†   (source)
  • When situations arose in which others would respond with righteous anger I would say that we were calm and unruffled (if it suited them to have us angry, then it was simple enough to create anger for us by stating it in their propaganda; the facts were unimportant, unreal); and if other people were confused by their maneuvering I was to reassure them that we pierced to the truth with x-ray insight.†   (source)
  • But they were the victims of so much propaganda that it was necessary to straighten them out about certain facts.†   (source)
  • These sources represent the highest level of propaganda in that the facts presented promote U.S. interests solely.†   (source)
  • So widespread and pervasive was such propaganda that even Martha Washington, who may have been smarting still from the "Mazzei Letter," remarked toa visiting clergyman that she thought Jefferson "one of the most detestable of mankind."†   (source)
  • That's another thing that Rafi showed me—examples of the propaganda the government released about genetic damage," Nita says.†   (source)
  • Callender, who had quit Philadelphia, was now working as a Republican propagandist in Richmond, Virginia, with the encouragement and financial support of Jefferson, who, at the same time, was actively distributing a variety of campaign propaganda throughout the country, always careful to conceal his involvement.†   (source)
  • I could tell Amar what's really going on, but that would require undoing the dense knot of propaganda and lies the Bureau has tied in his mind.†   (source)
  • Date of our Declaration of Independence, exactly three hundred years after that of North American British colonies, turned out to be wizard propaganda and Stu's manipulators made most of it.†   (source)
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