Sentence examples for pretend effort from inspiring English sources

The revenue from this "sin tax" could be used in a pretend effort to wean people off bad food.

But no one pretends the effort will be easy.

Erasing the memory of racial hierarchy allows conservatives and Americans to pretend that individual effort, rather than structural racism, is keeping black people down.

It's hard to pretend that peace efforts in that part of the Middle East have worked so far, to ignore Israel's crackdowns or to gloss over Palestinian violence.

It was all out of an effort to pretend otherwise".

If someone presented something to him that didn't move him, he made no effort to pretend that it did.

Most of the road is buried underground in an effort to pretend nasty things like cars don't exist.

But it's all just an effort to pretend that they belong in the hard sciences, where they think they will get more respect and more funding.

"Model Behavior" ignores that, just as it has neither Alex nor Janine make any real effort to pretend to know her lookalike's friends and family.

Paul Krugman: The Bush administration has tried a lot of number games in an effort to pretend that its tax cuts favor the middle class.

Farage told the Guardian: "I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.