Sentence examples for pretension will be from inspiring English sources

By pretensioning members to the control value, the final force of prestressed members, which is generally designed before pretension, will be obtained successfully.

"We are adopting new strategies," said Mr Prabhakaran.His democratic pretensions will be tested when and if an interim administration takes over the government of the north and east.

What happens when Labour backbenchers find themselves locked in combat with their local authorities rather than in partnership with them?In these circumstances, the government's localist pretensions will be truly tested.

Terrorism, he added, "will never be defeated by the military muscle of their states any more than it will be by their pretensions that its causes lie entirely outside their actions".

All the non-therapeutic contacts will be performed outside the spinal column with adequate joint slack and without soft tissue pretension so that no joint cavitations occur.

Your host will be tempted to hear this in the sing-song voice of a resentful eight-year-old, thus destroying any pretensions you have to sincerity.

And explanatory pretensions will have to be abandoned, or at least severely curtailed: for while it is, according to the identity theorist, correct to say that a proposition is true just if it is identical with a fact, false otherwise, it is perhaps hard to maintain that anything very illuminating has been said about truth (cf. Hornsby 1997, 2).

Even if you're not, its seductive lack of pretension will win you over.

And if you're not so inclined, the film's seductive lack of pretension will make a fan of you.

An initial pretension can be applied to the geosynthetic.

Over the next decade, Britain's pretensions to be a great power will evaporate.