Sentence examples for to pretence from inspiring English sources

But the appeal to pretence operators entails that the logical form of mathematical sentences then differs somewhat from their surface form.

Blair convinced most of his cabinet and parliament that Saddam had WMDs – and it is fair to say that Saddam himself contributed to this pretence, in order to keep his real enemy, Iran, in fear.

The main purpose of these killings and tales of derring-do is to add substance to the pretence that something effective is being done.

"You were a key figure in the cover-up," Roche put to him, "and you are reverting to the pretence you can't remember what happened because you are afraid to give any detail, any honest answers about what happened".

Sean Lock does - but he spends so much time drawing attention to the pretence and precariousness of his set, that we begin to take him at his word and wonder why we bothered.

The SNP leader said that David Cameron and Ed Miliband were "clinging to the pretence that one or other of them is going to get a majority".

Less aggressive, more accommodating and quicker to smile than your average group of men, they call attention to the pretence without offering any insight in return.

(Comments like that will quickly put pay to my pretence).

Ominously it followed an end to all pretence that North Korea's nuclear efforts were for "peaceful" purposes.

Doing so would not give us any more power, rather it would pander to the pretence that the new system is a fair market.

More so than other performing arts, it's committed to the pretence of seeming off-the-cuff, and never more so than in the crowd work that still opens so many shows.