Sentence examples for pretended act from inspiring English sources

An Act of Parliament, the Pretended Act, was obtained in 1649, and work began under his supervision.

I don't want to pretend, act like it's easy to do this, have at once the professional public world and the other intensely private at-home one.

Significant group differences were found for all body movement and pretend act tasks, but not for the instrumental act tasks.

The idea of getting dressed, applying makeup and putting on a pretend act for an entire afternoon paralyzed me.

A novel battery of tasks measured their ability to imitate a range of nonverbal target acts that to a greater or lesser extent involve sociocognitive skills (body movements, instrumental acts on objects, pretend acts).

Inevitably, several acts were (or pretended to be) less impressed by Coachella's self-reinforcing grandeur.

I pretended to ignore it and acted like it didn't bother me.

It has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction beyond our comprehension, understanding, and unclarified by our laws; giving its assent to its acts of legislation pretended to be serving the common good of the American people when it only serves special interests at the expense of that common good.

"Personally, I will commemorate the dead killed in war by fighting for peace and challenging the policies of governments, not by standing next to war criminals like Tony Blair on plinths, pretending that these acts are 'triumphant'," he said.

With well-known acts pretending to play in front of it. .

"As a community we are not helping the homosexual community by pretending that homosexual acts are normal and may be accepted as marriage.