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The reality is much more complicated, say environmentalists, who are concerned creative accounting is belying the true state of the world's forests, while EU climate goals slip from grasp.

From Scientific American • Aug. 8, 2012

And according to Professor Pound the whole course of English and American law today is belying the generalization of Sir Henry Maine, that the evolution of law is a progress from status to contract.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.