Fixating on a specific age or grade only feeds the myth that maturity is quantifiable, a false pretense even before the presence of the internet posed a unique set of circumstances for younger generations.
He recited a list of grievances — from the Soviet Union's transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian republic in 1954, to NATO's expansion to Russia's borders, to its war in Kosovo in 1999, when he was a little-known aide to President Boris N. Yeltsin, to the conflict in Libya that toppled Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in 2011 on what he called the false pretense of a humanitarian intervention.
In most cases, it's under the false pretense of a better, holier and more exciting life.
This entire date had been set up for me to head over to the home of the girl I'd been making out with, under the false pretense of an intentionally uninteresting-to-me movie, so we could have sex for the first time with as little stressful planning and verbal recognizing of impending sex as possible.
"A Talk to Teachers" showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical, and, instead, confront the problems that shape our students' lives.
After the mass shooting, he called the celebration of the military takeover "fascism under the false pretense of democracy and liberalism".
The mediator for the talks, Abdulsalami Abubakar, himself a retired Nigerian general and former junta leader, said tonight, "Liberia will never be plunged into another spiral of violence in the quest for political power, or under the false pretense of liberating the people".
Political scientist Amr Hamzawy called the coup celebrations "fascism under the false pretense of democracy and liberalism".
Democracy, here, is when the government is fooling the masses who have been kept under the false pretense of having the right to express themselves completely.
They say recruiters "used the false pretense of urgency to induce students to enroll by claiming that if the student didn't enroll immediately, they would be unable to enroll for another six months".
