Santa asked Zoe about her baby dolls and preschool and the pretend rabbit she wants.
What is wrong with it is that the textbooks pretend that the cloud is left undisturbed to do its textbook thing, whereas in reality it is likely to live in an environment that will nip its planetary aspirations in the bud.
The budget estimators pretend the loans cost taxpayers little or nothing as the money goes out the door, then make an "upward reestimate" to reflect the true cost.
As for the Iraqi parallel, not even the Russians pretend that Mr Saakashvili has ever been a threat to his neighbours and to the world.
In the assignment, students were to pretend the educator was a member of the Nazi government.
The Americans pretend not to see and no one says anything--but for how long?
That is a luxury the powerful pretend to have to maintain power.
For double world champion Alonso the close of 2007 marked the finale of a nightmarish year at McLaren where he and Hamilton traded barbed insults in the media before doing their best to pretend the other did not exist.
Ms. BERNADETTA LATEDA(ph) (Volunteer, ADICAP): This is area of the shelter, and the area where they pretend to build the houses.
The crisis in Europe has actually made it more attractive to lend to the United States, so it's easy to pretend the deficit and the debt don't matter.
But Mr Bush's Democratic opponents will have a field day with the budget numbers and they have been greatly helped by the administration's attempts to pretend that the surpluses are not falling as rapidly as they obviously are.
Instead WellPoint went along with what turned out to be extremely bad p.r. strategy by the industry to pretend they were on board with reform even though they opposed the core tenets of the legislation.
In order to make the case for it, we need not pretend that the people of Europe are in chains.
Rather than cut off ties with the Saniora government - which had been compelled to accept Hizbullah control over its affairs - the Bush administration continued to support Saniora and increased US military assistance to the Lebanese army - hoping that it could pretend away the problem.
To be on the safe side, Putin left Moscow on the day of the takeover apparently expecting that the wave of indignation would subside the day after and he once again could pretend that the NTV conflict had nothing to do with him, the government or freedom of speech, which he ardently advocates.
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Now the 2008 Crash made it impossible any longer to pretend that the system of keeping banks on the straight and narrow was working.
Humanity was limited by its creator from the beginning, so what makes us think we can pretend to the throne with trite explanatory powers of science?
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The investors are supposed to pretend they are surprised when the analysts for the underwriters of any given deal issue Buy recommendations on the stocks.
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It did not try to stop the meetings or to pretend, as it often has before, that the dissidents do not exist.
Occasionally a fellow Costco-ite would sit down at the piano and pretend to play a tune.
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"So you are not the person you pretend to be, " replied Kevin Curtis, according to Jack Curtis.
"I have called our department heads together and said this: Pretend the PTO doesn't exist, '" says Rogan.
You don't have to leave food on your plate and pretend the man next to you is interesting.
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Dozens of reporters have been attacked or arrested for failing to pretend the government is winning the war.
The year is about 25 percent complete by the way (pretend I said that in my most optimistic voice).
Just pretend the woman is the brand and the child is the consumer.
And they kept the face value 100 cents on the dollar, thus allowing the creditors to pretend they still want it.
So you decided to just quote his 'I have a dream' line in the story and pretend he told it to you.
If it fails, the government will pretend it never took place.
Often they want to understand what is going on in the world, and trying to sweep it under the carpet and pretend things aren't happening is unhelpful.
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