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We need to separate trumped-up fears from the legitimate ones.

The depositions of other officers suggested that the “property damage” charges were not just bizarre, but trumped up.

Even before the gang thing, though, reputation trumped truth in many places.

The answer was to ensure that individual liberty was not trumped by religion or government or corporations.

Three Al Jazeera journalists have been jailed in Egypt on trumped-up charges of collaborating with the Muslim Brotherhood.

But he failed to impose upon the Colonel, and was even far from impressing him with this trumped-up knowledge of bygone days.

"It is a cowardly pretext on the part of the citizens, trumped up to save their property for the Yankees," said he.

Robber raids they called these wars which he waged for trumped-up pretexts.

With the connivance of a corrupt police force, Tim can even ruin him on a trumped-up charge.

Then she began to ask herself if he had spoken the truth, or had trumped up this story to frighten her?