Sentence examples for weak pretense from inspiring English sources
Not that anybody ever bought that story, but the already weak pretense got too preposterous entirely when the "militias" started showing up with attack helicopters, self-propelled artillery, and other decidedly non-homebuilt weapons systems.
Gerta knew the pretense was weak.
The Wall Street CEO admitted that his goal is to eliminate the already critically weak Dodd-Frank Act and return to an era when there was only a pretense of financial regulation.
Presented in a handsome new Blu-ray edition from the independent distributor B2MP, "On Approval" quickly turns surprisingly sharp edged: the only immediately appealing character is the American (charmingly played by Withers, then one of Britain's most popular stars, with no unnecessary pretense to a Yank accent), while the others are variously bossy (Lillie), disdainful (Brook) or weak (Culver).
More than six budget-busting months against one of the weakest militaries in the world, with shortages of planes, weapons and ammunition that were patched over by the pretense that NATO was acting simply to "protect civilians," when it was clear to everyone that the alliance was intervening on one side of a civil war.
Their strength is pretense.
Others offered no such pretense.
