Sentence examples for pretends to exercise from inspiring English sources

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It focuses on anyone who "fraudulently" gets paid to tell fortunes, "pretends to exercise or to use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment, or conjuration," or using their "skill in or knowledge of an occult or crafty science" to find where lost things are.

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Crucially, it's a way to pretend to exercise, without actually breaking a sweat.

5,000 British witches and wizards, calling themselves "mediums" and organized in the Spiritualists National Union, are campaigning for the abolition of the Witchcraft Act of 1732 which provides that "if any person or persons shall pretend to exercise or use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, Inchantment, or conjuration, every person so offending shall suffer imprisonment".

Glenn Greenwald, himself the target of other journalists, has characterized mainstream journalists as "loyal spokespeople to those powerful factions [over which] they pretend to exercise oversight," and says liberal news outlets like MSNBC skirt the issues Snowden has raised because they're committed to supporting the Obama administration.

Governments are obsessively conditioned by "risk premiums", the valuations of the agencies – which have forfeited any authority to which they pretend by their failure to exercise it – and are buried in a fight to survive day-to-day that does not allow them to address the root causes of the situation.

Corporate settings may be a natural arena for behavior change, simply because corporate cultures tend to be 'hard-charging.' I don't know of too many corporations where the top executives don't at least pretend to be exercising".

Calin illustrates women's standard everyday struggles, from buying underwear to pretending to enjoy exercise.

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One woman pretends to weep.

Nobody even pretends to know.

Little grandkid picks up sticks and pretends to smoke" (FLSPI).

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