Sentence examples for was a pretence from inspiring English sources

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the convoy was a "pretence", that allowed Russia to encroach on Ukraine through unauthorised means.

She agrees, but her acquiescence was a pretence, as she later joins the fray, offering opportune assistance.

He ended his argument by saying: "I believe it's a pretence.

People won't just think politicians are liars, they'll know politicians are liars … this is a pretence".

There has been a pretence of trying to return to business as usual and certainly Australia's practice sessions have been boisterous but the start of the Test on Monday night will be another matter.

But handing the inspectors the odd "misplaced" biological bomb or batch of papers, as Iraq did this week, is a pretence of co-operation that could drag on for years.How to make everyone a loserYou might think that only the credulous (or an inspector) would put as much faith as France's President Jacques Chirac now says he does in further inspections.

None of that has much of a feelgood factor, so, instead, there is a pretence that the "gamechanging" thing about the new GTA is that the character can buy his own clothes and customise his style and that will affect his personality, something that has never really been at the centre of the game.

So rather than get in trouble all over again, hapless Bill has to look after his boys and pretend to be a decent bloke and single dad for the authorities' benefit – and discovers it might not be a pretence after all.

Sometimes, there's a pretence to loftiness – these are arguments about truth and beauty, honest!

(It does not matter if this is a pretence: the claim would be that our thinking about these matters makes it as if it were so).

"It's traditional for United fans to act as though the derby doesn't matter, that they have bigger fish to fry, but it's a pretence they have struggled to keep up in recent years.