Sentence examples for cannot be pretended from inspiring English sources

But it cannot be pretended that recent republican violence has not handed another excuse to unionist sceptics of power-sharing.

It cannot be pretended that an assured and entirely satisfactory answer can be given to such questions.

What I cannot do is pretend like the thousands of small such incidents never happened to me.

It was one of the combatants in the conflict and is not and cannot be, or pretend to be, an objective or neutral referee.

Now I can pontificate about any question someone throws me.' My answer is 'No, you cannot.' She's pretending to be an expert but misinforming the public.

If people cannot tell you are pretending, why shouldn't you?

Even this was not some rogue decision by an uppity new editor; the editors of the 1933 Supplement also wrestled with how to treat these terms — the evidence for which was often new, sparse, or both — and admitted that "it cannot be hoped or pretended that this problem has been solved in every instance with infallible discretion".

You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.

"[B]e wise," he writes, "… [a]nd if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would".

But he cannot be accused of pretending that this is why he might go to war.

"I think law enforcement cannot be naïve and pretend like there's no risk".