Sentence examples for it pretended that from inspiring English sources

Instead, it pretended that it did not matter that the Libyan dictatorship was a dictatorship and changed the conversation.

Nor is it pretended that the plaintiff in error had, at the date of these transactions, established or promulgated any regulation as to the quantity or the value of baggage which passengers upon its cars might carry, without extra compensation, under the general contract to carry the person.

Like a battered wife lying to the police, it pretended that Trump had not insulted May and that a trade deal would go ahead and then waited for a pathological liar to lie that he had never said what he had said, on the record and on tape.

When Congress enacted Medicaid and Medicare it pretended that the Indian Health Service didn't exist.

Otherwise, it pretends that the evidence doesn't exist.

It pretends that it cannot buy happiness but does just that.

Economic forecasting is not a hard science, even though it pretends that it is.

I would tell her that I forgot it, pretending that my sunburn really wasn't hurting.

Many choose to turn a blind eye to it, pretending that such things only happen to other people.

Instead of being something that embodies the relationship between the individual and society, it pretends that relationship doesn't exist.

They can fake it: pretend that they are right because they know that the admission of uncertainty and weakness is a career killer.