Pretence used in a sentence

Pretence in a sentence as a noun

I hate the arrogance and pretence of this site as a concept.

Well it seems that now that they have two strong platforms, google have given up the pretence of pushing the open web.

I don't know enough about the subject to have the pretence to judge whether it can work, what I do know is that:\n1.

Investing in their game was under the pretence of we either fund it and make it, or the game never gets made.

Apple, however, does not have even the pretence of that kind of accountability.

The NYT's usefulness is due to their pretence of being proponents of transparency and democracy.

I have issue with the false pretence and escalation and I would have expected Israel to have reserved killing human shields for some later escalation. it is not a "human shield" if you shoot anyway.

Perhaps their endgame is to use a vast collection of compromising images collected under the pretence of privacy to extort protection fees from their users.

It's time to stop with the ********, stop with the certified courses, stop with the pretence that if only your team pushed bits of paper around a whiteboard they'll magically become 10 times more productive.

I guess it depends on why people talk about app count, is that due to press or their own way of understanding?As a geek who uses the pretence he needs to evaluate all the platforms, I've iOS, Andriod, WP8, W8 devices.

"On top of that, this data-driven approach actively undermines any connection by reducing it to a functional one. There isn't even the pretence anymore that the candidate cares for the given group due to intrinsic values or some sort of connection other than statistics.

As a result, it was alleged that American publishers "indiscriminately reprinted books by foreign authors without even the pretence of acknowledgement.

"I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who, on pretence of managing the public, only pursue their private ends, and devise all the ways and arts they can find out; first, that they may, without danger, preserve all that they have so ill-acquired, and then, that they may engage the poor to toil and labour for them at as low rates as possible, and oppress them as much as they please; and if they can but prevail to get these contrivances established by the show of public authority, which is considered as the representative of the whole people, then they are accounted laws.