Sentence examples for pretenses from from inspiring English sources

It's bad enough that some Indian magazines and newspapers were running on money taken under false pretenses from small investors in West Bengal.

The first is last month's report from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Inspector General (OIG), which details a deplorable pattern of cruelty: Between 2008 and 2012, Tom Davis, a man with connections to the horse slaughter industry, bought 1,795 wild horses under false pretenses from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and illegally sold them to slaughter.

"There's absolutely no pretense from any of these publications of giving a policy a sort of objective hearing," Daniel McCarthy, editor of The American Conservative, told The Huffington Post.

The hoarding of information under some special legal pretense, even from one's fellow government officials, becomes an antiquated talent in a truly open data government.

This architectural style was developed after a world weary of war dropped the pretenses of beauty from the façades of government buildings and went all in on a new kind of populist expression of power.

> This architectural style was developed after a world weary of war dropped the pretenses of beauty from the façades of government buildings and went all in on a new kind of populist expression of power.

She has been on a couple of surveillances and has found she is good at what the industry refers to as "pretext calls" -- calling people under false pretenses to get information from them.

But she seemed genuinely sweet at the same time, and aside from the pretenses like a kind human being who took a genuine interest in her on-camera friends' lives.

2008 ― Manafort and Gates embark upon a "scheme and artifice to defraud, and to obtain money and property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises from the United States, banks, and other financial institutions," according to Mueller's indictment.

Most nude vacationers say that what they enjoy most is liberation from the typical pretenses of society.

As a result of her role, she was indicted along with four others in California on felony charges of using false pretenses to obtain confidential information from a public utility, unauthorized access of computer data, identity theft and conspiracy.