Sentence examples for on its pretense from inspiring English sources

This change was predicated on race or at least on its pretense.

You cannot carry on a pretense of being a type of person you're not for long when you live with a person day in and day out.

Our war in Iraq was fundamentally a war of choice, and it was the wrong choice -- a war fought on false pretenses and for false purposes.

He doesn't put on any pretenses.

Actually, rigorously examining the government's conduct of a war started on false pretenses is the best sort of patriotism.

This included not only a war fought on false pretenses but also a system of torture and indefinite detention that, in far too many cases, ran against our laws and values (and was only partially checked by the Supreme Court).

It collected tens of millions of dollars in state Medicaid payments on the pretense that it was providing medical services to its clients, they say, when in fact it was operating little more than glorified centers for the elderly.

Du Bois supported Spingarn's training camp, but was disappointed when the Army forcibly retired one of its few black officers, Charles Young, on a pretense of ill health.

The latest $26 billion "aid to the states" law was passed on the pretense that it was deficit neutral, the same ruse used to win votes for the unpopular health care reform.

And it is a shame that the affluent world outside of Western New York would bring in its self-serving hucksterism and fashionable pseudoscientific bunk on the pretense of "helping" these terribly damaged people.

The officers then rallied the army behind Ramavo, such that on August 11 , 1828 when she declared herself the successor to Radama on the pretense that he himself had decreed it, there could be no immediate resistance.