Sentence examples for pretended to support from inspiring English sources

Napoleon pretended to support Ferdinand in an attempt to seize the throne and overthrow the reviled Godoy.

"Where is the grass-roots support?" Americans for Prosperity organizers said there were other opponents present who pretended to support their group.

Having pretended to support Labour's spending levels, they responded to the crash by returning to their comfort zone, advocating a smaller state and a programme of austerity.

The power struggle swirls around the saintly, ineffectual King Henry until gradually the dynamic Richard Plantagenet, duke of York, who has pretended to support Margaret while secretly hatching his own plot, emerges as the chief contender for the throne.

In court, Mr. Khan, who was chastised by the judge for his rambling, evasive testimony, said he pretended to support the Taliban and extremism because he wanted the $1 million that was being offered to him by a man who turned out to be an informant.

He even created a fake name for the group he pretended to support, "15 for 15".

I can't pretend to support Zanu-PF," she said.

Mr. Romney just pretends to support Second Amendment rights, according to an opinion article published in Politico.

On Edward's death, while pretending to support Northumberland, he secured the proclamation of Mary as soon as Northumberland had left London.

When opposition parties amassed evidence of fraud in state elections, for example, Salinas appointed "compromise" candidates, pretending to support democracy while handpicking 60percentt of Mexico's governors.

Cement and gravel "rock puddles" (also just for show) pretend to support the pipes, meanwhile alluding offhandedly to Japanese gardens and Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty".