Utiliser "pretense" dans une phrase

1. Lord Boras took in orphans, all the orphans he could under the pretense of caring for them

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2. “Ah, poor Harry,” consoled the ladies, feigning concern for his pretense of disappointment

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3. really just a religious pretense with no heart

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4. ” She knew that tone all too well, that pretense of folly

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5. In 6357, Rylan Kamuna was chosen, and though the pretense of an elected monarch lasted until his death, it was then that the next Dynasty began

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6. Minister McBride went on to say the there was not any pretense of

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7. Then, abandoning his pretense of gravity, he slapped the other on the

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8. Only pretense remains and is worn proudly

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9. Thus says The Lord: One who answers a matter in the name of The Lord, while being ignorant or unsure, is foolish; and one who answers a matter, without real knowledge, leans upon pride, wearing pretense as a garment

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10. How long will you weary Me with your words and all this pretense?

11. So you may acknowledge your need and confess all these hidden things you have concealed by pretense, in where you have deceived yourselves

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12. He gave up all pretense of high roller intent on impressing his companion, and allowed her to pull him close for the cheek-to-cheek delivery of her secret

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13. In Green Bay, happiness for her was something gained through accruing prestige, promotions and sound financial growth: how hollow, fleeting and insignificant that all now seemed! In Chauita, she’d found happiness that sprang from simply being in this world and sharing time with Truman without the slightest need for pretense or position

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14. While some nationalists made the pretense of being Marxists after the 1950s, there was no evidence of anything but vague ideological ties to Cuba

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15. I wonder if they know that he was an Erudite once; that under all the pretense of Dauntless recklessness and even brutality, he is more like an Erudite than anything else

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16. “It explains,” he says, gritting his teeth, “why, under a pretense of neutrality—as if such a thing is possible!—you have left us to die at the hands of the Erudite

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17. They knew Bruce would be wary of pretense

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18. Soldiers are sent to fight in these „profit wars" under the false pretense of defending national security interests – defending democracy, our way of life, and freedom

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19. The author described the Huaxteca as “stubborn warriors with rather obscene dedication to the male member to the exclusion of even the pretense of common decency

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20. He had retired to his room on the pretense of a headache

21. They assumed he was one of our agents and made every pretense of ignoring him

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22. His pretense didn’t last very long

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23. getting harder and harder to keep up that pretense and the influx of

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24. Don’t we?” She asked that last of everyone on the platform, and they all gave a laughing cheer of agreement, abandoning for a moment the pretense of not paying attention to them

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25. again, without pretense, and she gave them to him

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26. It was only after I grew up that I was slowly forced to become aware of the mutual pretense, by an occasional remark offered by those real Egyptians

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27. It is the right thing to do! The problem is,” he growled, looking up with an all-encompassing sweep of his eyes, “can we afford to take the chance? We stick out like a sore thumb no matter what pretense we try to hide behind

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28. after I grew up that I was slowly forced to become aware of the mutual pretense, by an

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29. Remember, this maid business is all pretense

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30. “What of it?” demanded the Dangler, abandoning his complacent pretense

31. While holding onto the pretense that I had a lascivious sex life starting to brew

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32. They hurried up the stairs, crashing on to her bed, making love powerfully, completely, without pretense or fantasy, all real, all in the moment

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33. He had a fiery temper when once it was adequately provoked, and when the storm was over, he was always wont to justify and excuse his anger under the pretense that it was wholly a manifestation of righteous indignation

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34. These six Jews caught up with the apostolic party, numbering about thirty, at Jericho and, under the pretense of desiring to become disciples, attached themselves to Jesus' family of followers, remaining with the group up to the time of the beginning of the second preaching tour in Galilee; whereupon three of them returned to Jerusalem to submit their report to the chief priests and the Sanhedrin

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35. There was no hesitating pretense in his religious experience

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36. We have been fooled into believing that elected officials, under the pretense of national pride, are looking out for our safety, when all along it has been a ruse to sell arms, equip armies and manipulate economies

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37. Additionally, several actions can involve a pretense to touching

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38. I believe in green energy self sufficiency, and a constitutional commitment to be a peace loving nation that doesn’t go to war over the fear of loss of oil trade, or some other trumped up pretense, e

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39. We’re talking about the take over of the Federal government, with several puppet presidents to follow, and the massive extraction of capital out of America taken as a result of the huge war expenditures made for un-needed conflicts started by those puppets under false pretense

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40. It would have been possible for him to have met his wife, killed her with absolutely no witnesses in such a desolate area, then continued with his hunt; however, that would require his having known about her afternoon ride, an event of which he had professed having no knowledge, or else having prearranged a meeting place with her for some secret rendezvous under the pretense of an afternoon tryst

41. “Yes,” Feltus said, smiling at the ideal lead into his interrogation that would initially take the pretense of idle conversation

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42. Her ability to remain so apparently unruffled was admirable, but after all, she was a proper lady who had been well trained in how to conduct herself and conceal her emotions behind a stony pretense that could be beneficial in misleading the authorities

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43. Feltus’s eyes widened at the revelation of the name he had secretly suspected but had been reluctant to accept given the old woman’s kind yet mysterious disposition that was not indicative of a murderer; however, he readily admitted that such a deceptive pretense would be ideal in order to plot an extremely vengeful murder, perhaps justified in her mind

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44. socialist elite, but on what justified pretense, I could never figure

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45. “On what pretense were you hired, then sir, if not on the

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46. pretense of functional analytical thought? On what basis then,

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47. pretense was, yours is not working and you will always be

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48. what pretense where you hired in as principle authority here?

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49. the same pretense as before in such conditions,

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50. ” He closed the call, but Carla carried on with the pretense of having a conversation

51. And against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare

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52. And even more interesting were the gangsters who made no pretense about it, but actually came right out and said it was a protection racket

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53. Juez remained calm on the outside giving the pretense of composure, but Viella knew he was seething on the inside

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54. It continued with its magical pretense of red steam rising in the air from the pools

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55. “Richard, that would be false pretense!”

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56. Ben couldn’t help but wonder why fate had thrust him into a situation which demanded that death was no longer a pretense as it was in the swording ring, but rather as real as lying down and never getting up again, as real as the heart stopping and never beating again, as real as the brain never thinking another thought

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57. Our pretense for being there, and every other war since then, was false, to say the least

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58. The following day after school, Jake rode the bus with Emma and Will on the pretense that he was coming over to visit again

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59. The materialists with their statistical version of truth, perhaps in overreaction to the fundamentalist Christian creationist view, have completely abandoned any pretense of intellectual objectivity

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60. Magical science makes no pretense of describing reality because 1) there is no “reality” and 2) all descriptions (thought forms, concepts, belief systems) are false

61. This barrier is the pretense that there’s nothing going on between the participants

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62. Ruthless and self-willed, he had increasing recourse to terror, showing no hesitation in eliminating men whom he had ceased to trust, either with or without the pretense of a fair trial

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63. All the pheasant had run out as Sebastian had forced the gamey bird down his throat to keep up with his brother, pretending he cared for the taste in order to maintain his pretense of being Alex

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64. without the pretense of ambience or snobbery

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65. Without further pretense, she gathered up the bones and held them to her bosom

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66. use her cold haughty words and attitude on him as a pretense anymore

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67. But this pretense of hers, she had paid a high price for it

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68. As Long Bushi could not move, he gave a shout as a pretense!

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69. He also refuses the forbiddance of interest under the pretense that it stimulates the economic activity

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70. Even this morning with that stupid pretense of letting me vent in your office

71. It negates that false pretense

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72. Having revealed that the deeds of the libertines are that which shackle them and that nothing of their actions is neglected, the Almighty wanted to refute their pretense of that the believers deprive themselves of pleasure and bliss when they abstain from giving their spirit its whim or succumbing to its desire

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73. But contemporary spontaneous sex is not dependent upon romantic courtship; it is a biological drive that can be divorced from the constraints of traditional sexual love and does not even require any formal pretense of caring for the obliging partner

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74. You are the one who is acting under pretense here, though I don’t know why

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75. Old world dictators are simply super-sized egos unwilling to even engage in the pretense of equal opportunity for prosperity for all

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76. Even in pretense, it seemed inappropriate to imagine the details of what that

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77. During this pre-Christmas time, myth and pretense tend to block the real natural wonders of the

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78. Why can’t someone just kick a child out of their house for unacceptable behavior without resorting to calling it some kind of love? Is it because we want to feel that whatever we are doing is loving, so as to appease our conscience that we are ever loving people who would never do anything to their child that wouldn’t be done out of love? If love, and not the pretense of love, is actually important to us, we will cease seeing the other as someone we can carve in the I'mage of ourselves or our ideals

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79. So let's stop the pretense!

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80. based on the false pretense of weapons of mass destruction they find it hard

81. “This sanctuary and farm is not the end, my friend, but only a beginning as long as we don't sell anything, especially not marketed for the Z-class, on the pretense we will have more money to help the ill and poor

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82. Without pretense, without manipulation

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83. up the pretense that Liam didn't know what he was

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84. Feeling awkwardly shy and totally out of her depth, Kathy made a pretense of studying the rose in her hands and her injured ankle, which, thanks to the Ibyprophen Kirby had given her earlier, wasn’t as sharply painful as it had been, unless jarred

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85. The prophet (cpth) said: "the Hour will not occur until two great powers fight one another though they are under one pretense causing a horrible blood path (the Third World War between the East and the West which causes the smoke), the knowledge disappears (the knowledge of that there is no God except Al'lah and of God's supreme attributes), the earthquakes increase (the previous generations were befallen by less than one per thousand part of these earthquakes which we see and hear about today in all countries)

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86. According to their claims and pretense, upon finishing their ceremony of piercing themselves with skewers and removing them from their bodies, they put some of their spittle on the wounds so that they heal up at once and cicatrize as if the wound had never existed

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87. Hence, the propaganda of the New Spiritism is another type of recent magic practiced under the pretense of foretelling that which is unseen, or treating people spiritually

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88. When one of them does so, she puts on a great pretense and deceives all her family with a supposed disease

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89. As soon as this happens, she soon recovers from her disease and ends her pretense in order to make her family submit themselves to this magician and couple with him, becoming linked to him by their feelings of gratitude and appreciation, and consequently developing feelings of loyalty to him

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90. But what if Miss Simone had lied about that too? What if there was no such place? What if Miss Simone just wanted to keep up the pretense until the children started changing, and then do away with the parents and steal the children for experiments?

91. I’d go under pretense of his recruitment

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92. and the soul thus unburdened of pretense

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93. here somewhere”—and he made a pretense of searching for

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94. He just happened to be looking for some kind of job, because studying had become nothing but an empty pretense

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95. Thus was hatched a plan to lure their rivals into palaver with the pretense that Upaya had been snared via Kama’s love-mantra

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96. I had to keep up the pretense in case I would have to return home once again

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