But he does not pretend immunity against the downturn or subsidised BBC "super-local" competition.
It is no longer tolerable to turn away and pretend violence against women and girls does not exist.
Rainie wants nothing to do with Cora, and pretends the allegations against Mick are true.
Clinton pretends to be against "scapegoating" when that's exactly what she just did.
She doesn't want to be stuck with the uncool kid — and who does? — but she pretends that her protest against the arrangement has loftier motivations.
Bruce Nauman, one of the earliest adopters, reacted to the hologram's eerie compression of three dimensions into two with awkward self-portraits in which he pretends to press up against the picture plane.
He claimed they had "pretended to campaign against it and voted against it when it was clear that an Assembly majority was going to push it through in any case".
It has never come close to power in Egypt, but exerts subtle influence through social work and has been a strong force in trade unions.The Egyptian state, ostensibly secular, pretends to be a bulwark against the Brotherhood's ambitions.
Now, they have entered an odd-couple marriage with the U.S. against what Washington pretends is a common foe -- ISIS -- but which the Iranians and their allies in Baghdad see as a war against the Sunnis in general.
I will pretend this is against the desires of my generals (hmm -- maybe that Rumsfeld protest was a trick) and by so approving, solidify my unwritten veto power.
