Sentence examples for pretence for from inspiring English sources

Grijzenhout kept up the pretence for several months.

Mr Bacon holds, however, with many others, that this fear on the part of the South of a Republican President was not so much the motive as the pretence for secession, and that in order to ensure the possession of so fair a pretence for alarm the Southern party divided their votes in the elections so as to make certain their own defeat.

It did, however, feel like a helpful pretence for two small, bewildered boys too young to know that parents do not routinely die at random.

Mr Cameron must maintain that pretence for the next six weeks, even though most senior Tories admit privately their best hope is being the largest party in a hung parliament.

Alston accused the UN's Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) for coming up with a "patently artificial and wholly unfounded legal pretence for insisting that the organisation must not take legal responsibility for what it has done".

During the film's soul-crushing two hours you'll see Clay wrestle with his demons about dating – how he considers the pageantry of wooing women to be a false pretence for his vision of true romance.

The traditional bogeymen of the information age – pornographers, pirates, mafias and terrorists – now head a list of pretences for locking down the information society.

Contemporaries such as General William Irvine criticized Howe as "having a talent ... of finding many supposed obstructions, and barely plausible pretences for his delay" in assaulting Verplanck's Point.

She was signed up under false pretences for a sex comedy, a genre she was then uncomfortable with, and thus decided to leave the project.

When things became difficult for Gorbachev, the west hastily abandoned all pretence of support for him: had he received even a few of the billions of dollars lavished on Yeltsin - much of which has been siphoned off by corruption in the highest places - Russia would not be in its present plight.

Unable to escape, Bompart finally abandoned his pretence of sailing for the Americas and instead turned north-west.