Sentence examples for a pretence that from inspiring English sources

It is a pretence that can be indulged.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the convoy was a "pretence", that allowed Russia to encroach on Ukraine through unauthorised means.

"It's purely a pretence that Britain is an independent nuclear power.

Breaking them up is part of a pretence that "everything is nice and rosy in the garden".

Now they have made a land grab for Labour policies in a pretence that they hold our values.

Analyst and patient are locked in a pretence that if only the boy would try harder he could get well.

Let's hope that ends any pretence that shareholders look after companies.

Athens was unravelling into chaos, unable to form a government and forced into fresh elections, plunging the markets into freefall as Europe's leaders abandoned any pretence that a Greek exit from the euro might not be imminent.

Ominously it followed an end to all pretence that North Korea's nuclear efforts were for "peaceful" purposes.

Lindsay said the murder earlier this year of the prison officer Adrian Ismay by the New IRA, the attempted murder of PSNI officers, the continuing intelligence gathering and targeting against policemen and women, and the recent finds of dissident republican weapons meant that "you most certainly do not have a normal society, and any pretence that we have has to be honestly confronted".

But this year China has in effect dropped any pretence that it has a serious role.