Sentence examples for pretences of from inspiring English sources

She was flown to Iraq under the false pretences of a holiday and was murdered.

It can't continue to grab every child's personal data under false pretences of the purposes for its collection.

It isn't that he merely took a blowtorch to all the affectations and pretences of genre fiction.

Do not, he told them, "suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretences of politeness, delicacy, or decency.

But his skill lies in stripping away the polite pretences of the cannibalistic Harringtons and even in inducing a sense of pity for their misery.

He had been led to public square Piazza Marina under the false pretences of meeting an informant, but was assassinated on the orders of prominent Mafioso Vito Cascio Ferro.

Let's stop this pretence of prophylaxis.

I love the pretence of it all".

The pretence of the stage neatly parallels the pretence of the conman.

Right from the start, all pretence of balance is gone.

They calculate the percentages, and maintain the pretence of pragmatism.