Sentence examples for with a pretence from inspiring English sources

But there has been much ducking and diving over the last week, with a pretence those limits include a ban on offending religious sensitivity.

Should the surrender be total and unconditional, or should there be an effort to escape with some vestige of a pretence that it is parliament, not a bunch of foreign judges, that has decided this matter?

However, in practice the Agta's case is indeed exemplary of 'manipulative participation', in which case 'Participation is simply a pretence, with "people's" representatives on official boards but who are unelected and have no power' (Pretty 1995:1252).

With no need to even make a pretence of cleaning up after themselves.

George Osborne can't even muster a pretence.

Mr Bacon holds, however, with many others, that this fear on the part of the South of a Republican President was not so much the motive as the pretence for secession, and that in order to ensure the possession of so fair a pretence for alarm the Southern party divided their votes in the elections so as to make certain their own defeat.

He got away with it, he claimed, because everyone knew that everything he did and said was just a pretence: he regarded himself as an actor.

What is more, this babe is making a pretence at gesturing like a king.

What one cannot do is simultaneously keep up a pretence of humanitarianism.

The number of African leaders who can eschew even a pretence of democracy is shrinking.

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