Ms. Miller is facing similar charges in Houston, where she has been charged with taking at least $200,000 from a woman in 2009 under the same pretenses.
European football does not operate under the same pretenses as American sports, in which there are one or two teams that represent a specific city.
Reptile has been featured in almost every title in the series under the same pretenses, and until the 2011 reboot, he had yet to be rewarded for his efforts.
This is where the journey and the destination really become one in the same as all pretense and sense of separation fall away, revealing what is real: the sacred space where who we are spills into each others' "being".
Because he feared reprisal from Saul, Samuel went to Bethlehem (whose elders had the same fears) under the pretense of presiding at a sacrifice.
However, Peter Schiff loses credibility when he attacks the government's massive interference in the market -- you know, like the Federal Reserve's currency manipulation, bank bailouts, TARP, Solyndra, all the expensive and wealth-destroying wars -- and at the same time propagates the pretense that this country has a functioning Free Market.
Pretense and ambition are different words for the same thing, and a writing without pretense pretty soon becomes a literature without ambitions, content to congratulate itself on its own insularity.
"The very same collectivist theories and demagogic pretenses which had destroyed earlier civilizations were now paraded forth in the disguise of new and modern concepts".
Writing a book about a decade requires the same nice balance of earnestness and pretense.
