Sentence examples for as a pretend from inspiring English sources

The boy, as a pretend puppet called Isaiah – "because one eye's higher than the other" – would sit on his father's knee as both sang Sonny Boy.

Saunders has lost her twinkly charm; Lumley has become a grotesque panstuck parody of her formerly bewitching self, more fetching as a pretend man than as a woman.

I dramatized many of his stories and novels for television specials and film, and we shared adventures in France, Italy, Cuba and Spain, where, as a pretend matador with Ernest as my manager, I participated in a Ciudad Real bullfight.

Having been challenged by a strident businessman, Matt Bevin, who attacked him as a "pretend conservative" and attracted a lot of Tea Party support, McConnell won the primary handily.

She denounced local education authorities for teaching children that "they have an inalienable right to be gay" and brought in the hated clause, then section, 28, which outlawed the promotion of homosexuality as "a pretend family relationship".

He has also advocated adding a prescription drug benefit to the traditional Medicare program, in line with his party, and has scoffed at the House Republican plan as "a pretend plan that even the insurance industry doesn't think will work".

Where Thatcher forbade local authorities to "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship," Cameron is on the point of legalizing marriage equality for gays.

There was similar support for another gay demand: repealing Section 28 of the 1988 Local Government Act, which forbids local authorities from "promoting homosexuality" or teaching its "acceptability as a pretended family relationship".These changes are long overdue.

First, David Cameron should confess to President Putin that we passed a similar but less extreme law in 1988 (section 28), which banned "the teaching … of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship".

In 1988, it was enacted, stating that a local authority "shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship".

Which, given that only 24 years ago Section 28 of the Tories' Local Government Act banned councils from allowing schools to promote "the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship", is quite a step.Close analysis of the Tories' loss of the 2005 election by Lord Ashcroft, former deputy chairman of the party, is in part responsible for this change.