Mr. Lynn also said the Christian Coalition's threat to use this issue to rate lawmakers in the 40 million voter guides it distributes was a strong-arm tactic that would falsely depict opponents as anti-religion and anti-God.

A lawyer for Mr. Lasky, Jerris Leonard, told the jury in his summation that the documentary had falsely and maliciously depicted Mr. Lasky as a villain.

Then the Wallace claque unleashed the dirtiest campaign in Alabama history, using the Klan to paper the state with leaflets falsely depicting the clean-living Brewer and his family as sexual deviants, alcoholics and miscegenists.

(At Doylestown, Toomer once wrote and published a pamphlet falsely depicting his grandfather Pinchback as a white man who had passed for black in order to gain favor during Reconstruction.)

Reiner intends to Photoshop the photograph in order to falsely depict the executive giving cigarettes to the children.

Rouillard also argues that traditional portrayals of the Quiet Revolution falsely depict it as the rise of Liberalism in Quebec.

The lawsuit asserts that the company's consumer ads falsely depict the drug's benefit and fail to disclose its limited effectiveness.

"When you repeatedly see yourself falsely depicted," Gubar writes, "you have no sense of your right to be in the world, or, indeed, you gain a conviction that you cannot, do not, should not exist."

Zanuck also romanticised the arrival of Lovat and his Commandos, quite falsely depicting their bagpipes playing as they crossed Pegasus Bridge.

"Such rhetoric serves only to divide the party and plays into the hands of the liberal elite to falsely depict Christian conservatives as intolerant extremists."