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.
"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.
But the pretence was maintained that the shuttle was a workaday craft.
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.
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.
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.
Within hours all pretence of maintaining a statesmanlike consensus over the bail-out of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and HBOS (formed by the merger of Halifax Building Society with Bank of Scotland) had vanished.
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This strategy buries even the pretence of anti-establishmentarianism.
In spurning such options, argue the pessimists, Mr Bush has abandoned any pretence that, in formulating foreign policy, he seeks a variety of options and then, like an efficiently impartial chief executive, picks and chooses.
But if occupancy in Southern Cross's homes falls significantly in the coming weeks, the losses generated by the business may increase to an extent that any pretence that it is a going concern will become impossible.
But the similarities with Facebook are beside the point, says StudiVZ, which is accusing its larger rival of using the pretence of protecting its intellectual property rights to make up for its failure to succeed in Germany.
Smith said that Ms Spence was taken to Parker's flat on 14 April 2011 under the pretence that it was to be used as a safe house for her as she owed money to people who wanted to hurt her.
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