Sentence examples for pretended case from inspiring English sources

It had nothing to do with a pretended case of asthma but was taken precisely for the match … the boy was not of a sufficient intellectual level to realise what he did or what he said".

The Liberal Democrats should not pretend the case was proved - it was not considered worth sending to tribunal.

(Thus, in "The Journalist and the Murderer," her famous book about Jeffrey MacDonald, a former Green Beret convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and two children, Ms. Malcolm suggests that the journalist Joe McGinniss, who had a contract to write a book about the case, pretended to believe in his subject's innocence in order to get access).

The Justice Department should "start from scratch and pretend these cases never happened," she said.

To make the difference between the real and the pretending sick cases, the magistrate uses the supposed experts' knowledge.

In another case Downey pretended to have been attacked by neo-Nazis in an airport.

The former Labour security minister Admiral Lord West called the flaw "a real weakness" and said the MoD had pretended it was a case of teething problems.

Yet when LaVar Ball was asked by ESPN about Trump's involvement in the case, Ball pretended not to have heard of him.

For a few years after the high court dismantled terra nullius and established rights of native title in the Mabo case, Australia pretended it had solved its problems with race.

But it would be wrong, too, to pretend Navalny's case didn't matter.

The H.P. investigation involved the use of a technique known as pretexting — in this case, pretending to be a customer to obtain that customer's records from the phone company.