Sentence examples for pretence this from inspiring English sources

Although if pressed a last-minute winner against Uruguay in the final would be good Least looking forward to The inevitable travel/ traffic/airport chaos: plus the inevitable pretence this doesn't happen elsewhere too Who will reach the final?

When a local chief, Chintanda, complained to the Company in 1899 that Clark had secured his concessions while passing himself off as a Company official and had been collecting hut tax for at least two years under this pretence, the Company resolved to remove him from power, and did so in 1902.

For the Mexican government, the attacks end all pretence that this crisis is confined to a turf war between cartels: this is an insurrection.

There is no pretence that this is rational.

"Any pretence that this is some sort of legitimate correction of an ecological problem is just nonsense," he said.

"Although we may not have seen the back end of the machinations, we have seen the back of the pretence that this is not machinations.

Both will be able to call themselves "Anglican" but there will no longer be any pretence that this involves a common discipline or doctrine.

We made no pretence that this was a referendum, or in any way legally binding, just that it was the best we could do given the Spanish government's attitude.

"It's haemorrhaging!" screamed the announcer, desperately trying to maintain the pretence that this was a genuine contest by injecting some drama into the farcical scenes he was describing.

Aside from smirkily delivered one-liners, there is no longer any serious pretence that this is a government that wants to do anything other than balance the books on the backs of the poor.

Tony Blair blithely whistles all the other traditional Tory tunes on crime, immigration, defence but even he can no longer keep up the pretence that this is not a tax-and-spend government.Steady economic growth, the insidious effects of fiscal drag and the ceaseless inventiveness of the Treasury have dulled the political impact of rising taxes.