perpetrated

But there was vesting, of course, and also a whole lot of unsavory business, mostly perpetrated by the VCs.

Whether or not those origins were originally perpetrated using straw man arguments is irrelevant.

Obviously that's the insane part, and once the fraud that was perpetrated on Brussels became clear, why weren't they kicked out immediately?

This is a myth, perpetrated by the campaign against the estate tax.

Often they are perpetrated by larger groups of 10-15 armed men, and the victims are targeted because of their affiliation with another rival group.

Also misogyny is not an act, so it cannot be perpetrated.

What the article is saying is that there's an upper limit on the amount of fraud that can be perpetrated without showing up in other metrics, and at current prices, brand marketers just don't care.

I don't know about those specific stories, but the horrors perpetrated by the North Korean regime on its people are well-documented.

I would rather that the page altered to reveal that it was all a hoax, but still describe the ficticious person, and perhaps also describe how the hoax was perpetrated.

Many of the police killings I've heard of were perpetrated on unarmed people.

Note that this does not mean that consciousness have to be an illusion, but the illusion single, coherent unified self is created by and actively perpetrated by our brains, papering over all kinds of holes.

Less ethical than the systemic genocide perpetrated against Native Americans, I think not.

Like gamergate, and unlike Occupy etc., the KKK only pretends to be against crime, and they're "outraged" only when a crime is perpetrated by blacks.

"Google hacked account" means, to an English speaker, that Google perpetrated hacking against some account somewhere (subject-verb-object, right?) E.g.

Turkey perpetrated the Armenian genocide, genocide is bad and should be stopped, QED".

The "in confucianism you must obey your elders at all times" is a convenient myth perpetrated by various governments and parents throughout history.