Yet this report, like so many, adopts a preposterous pretence of precise measurement which immediately arouses suspicion.
At first she says she tried to keep up the pretence she was Japanese.
Many maintain that Britain should give up the pretence of being a busy power.
Banks and rating agencies were gripped by the pretence that all finance can be calculated by risk-modelling eggheads.
Mr Holbrooke makes no pretence that the Dayton deal for Bosnia is ideal.
This is a very big subject, and I make no pretence at covering it in a brief blog posting.
Now his own poor health and the looming succession make even the pretence of a negotiated process too risky.
Shorn of pretence and shame, the club had a cultural anthropologist testify about her extensive research on exotic dance.
"This was a big worry, especially in our industries where there is so much pretence at body perfection, " she said.
Conservative James Gray said the move would "spell an end to any kind of pretence at a local ambulance service".
The bogus worker entered under the pretence of checking the elderly woman's account details at about 15:00 on Friday in Northfield Grove.
Japan just does better than other phoney democracies in maintaining the pretence.
But the pretence was maintained that the shuttle was a workaday craft.
That would have to be provided but it is not provided by shoving her into prison on a pretence in an unjust way.
Among the senators themselves, supporters and opponents of the president have dropped all pretence of impartiality and have begun to demonstrate their biases openly.
Under pretence of finding it accidentally, and being about to throw it away, Mr Sternbach took his powder to the head of pharmacology for testing.
It was filmed around the Johannesburg neighbourhood of Sophiatown, partly with secret cameras and partly under the pretence of being a film about street music.
Just recently, one City household name abandoned all pretence of impartiality, and sent all its analysts a memo warning them that they were "not commercial enough".
"There hasn't been so much as the pretence of negotiations from the Post Office and that must change if strike action is to be avoided, " he added.
The rebels have dropped all pretence that they are disarming.
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Argentina has made no pretence of honouring that time period.
It must have been so exhausting for David Steel and Paddy Ashdown to keep up the pretence, perhaps that explains why they were always rather short-tempered during election campaigns.
Today's crisis, which has seen the supreme leader abandon the pretence of neutrality in favour of the hard-line faction behind Mr Ahmadinejad, has exposed doctrinal divisions as never before.
The woman from Gloucestershire kept up the pretence for almost three years while the boy was aged six to eight in order to claim extra benefits, Gloucester Crown Court heard.
As for Mr Clarke, he should be less embarrassed to discover that his euro thinking is close to Mr Blair's than by his pretence that this discovery is a surprise.
Arafat ended all pretence of good faith in the summer of 2000 when he rejected then prime minister Ehud Barak's offer of Palestinian statehood and instigated the Palestinian terror war.
While the purpose of realism in acting is to strip away the pretence and make the actor expose their soul, on their face, for real - a mask does the opposite.
As part of this pretence, he used the Italian word "avvocato" on business cards, letterheads and documents to ensure his clients and the judiciary were given the impression he was a lawyer.
Another may have been that, to keep up the pretence of not being directly involved, Mr Prodi spent most of the campaign outside Italy, wrapping up his messages to voters in Euro-speak.
The pretence that he would be allowed to reform a system carefully designed to keep Mr Moi's hands on the reins of power, and on the purse-strings, was gone before he was dismissed.
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