Sometimes she sent me over to check up on him under the pretense of bringing him medicine.
Government intervention misdirects resources from wealth generating endeavors into crony capitalism, consumption and graft under the pretense of stimuli.
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Such half-truths are a pernicious way of lying because the whole truth is being hidden under a pretense of honesty.
Now of course, under the pretense of fiscal responsibility, President Obama wants to do the most fiscally irresponsible thing imaginable, eliminate the ceiling entirely.
Under the pretense of proposing a business deal, the gang invited Griga and his girlfriend, Krisztina Furton, to dinner with the intent to kidnap them.
But, in the process, users were asked to indicate whether they had ever engaged in those activities, under the pretense that it might color their ratings.
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Takia Walker, 29, had co-signed the vehicle's lease, acquired the car under false pretense and allowed another person who wasn't insured to drive it, the official said.
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Levy wrote a lengthy article in the New York Times about how Russian security services arrested members of an environmental group under the pretense that they were using pirated Microsoft software.
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They are urging legislators not to cave in to what amounts to brute intimidation under the false pretense that those exercising it represent the entire American Islamic community.
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Yet the regime is allowed to import as many people under the UN and diplomatic pretense into America and send their children to Harvard, Princeton and Columbia.
The disparities between individual contributions and available corporate dollars mock any pretense of equal justice under the law.
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Reeling under Taliban attacks, the rebels of Andar have abandoned the pretense of being an independent, spontaneous movement.
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