Sentence examples for same pretence from inspiring English sources

If you believe Wednesday's performance, then this will not be achieved by a single major tax increase (the same pretence has been adopted by all three major parties, just as it was in May 2010, shortly before VAT was jacked up).

The same old pretence that it is inevitable, and whatever is "inevitable" is good.

Racing Through the Dark, the autobiography published by David Millar in 2011, contains an interesting account of winning the silver medal in the 2001 world time trial championship after being given an intramuscular shot of the same drug, under the pretence that he was suffering from tendonitis.

This pretence – not the same thing as the delusion that Britain could or should solve the world's problems – has been marked in the Ukraine crisis and in the Greek debt row, on which eurozone ministers were locked in talks on Friday.

Healey, rather like Alan Johnson, made no pretence to economic expertise.

The same players would sneak out under the pretence of a trip to the cinema, to pay yet another trip to KFC.

There is no shame in admitting that the party made tremendous mistakes under Blair - the great shame would be to pursue the same set of politics under a false pretence of loyalty.

So, in the interest of avoiding confrontation, I have developed a suite of fail-safe techniques for handling the various terrible opinions that are presented to me under the pretence that I think the same terrible way.

Each woman faces significant hardship: isolated and for the most part impoverished, and stuck with men who try them to different degrees – Marantha's husband has brought her here under false pretences; Edith's stepfather (the same man) has imprisoned her here; and Elise's husband Herbie, although sweet-natured, is at heart childish and unpredictable.

While America and Britain will continue to enjoy common interests, it is time to drop the pretence that they are always the same.

Such is the imbalance of the value of human life in a country which holds up the pretence that we all have the same right to life.