And we went in, pretending to be buyers.

Tom sat at his desk, pretending to study.

She's some other woman pretending to be my mother.

It's some strange woman pretending to be my mother.

There is no point in pretending to be sick.

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

Mary isn't really sick. She's only pretending to be sick.

He said, You can't wake a person who's pretending to sleep.

We need to stop that, to stop pretending to be omniscient beings.

Taste you (this)! Verily, you were (pretending to be) the mighty, the generous!

Taste you (this)! Verily, you were (pretending to be) the mighty, the generous!

You'll never be able to revive someone who is only pretending to be dead.

It's no use pretending to make me believe that I believe things you don't believe!

We stand on street corners, shouting over noise like this, and pretending that it doesn't exist.

It was a complicated thing, and I'm not pretending it was more simple than it was.

It means you've got to stop pretending you can do these two very disparate skill sets with the same 19 year old.

It is through small surrenders like hers that men like Surkov ultimately succeed. Citizens pretending to be loyal build a culture of conformity.

I have come to address this august body today not pretending that Slovakia holds the key to a generally acceptable programme of work.

Young people in northern Canada, kids in an elementary school, dragging sleds across the school yard, pretending they were Richard, Ray and Kevin. Amazing.

And also gave this fake letter from the MTA to everybody sort of like pretending that it's an art project financed by The Metropolitan Transit Authority.

As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,

As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,

And if you imagine a kid pretending to be King Kong, or a race car driver, or a fireman, they don't all become race car drivers or firemen, you know.

And when he saw their hands not reaching towards it, he thought they were pretending and inwardly started fearing them they said, Do not be afraid we are sent to the people of Lut.

And when he saw their hands not reaching towards it, he thought they were pretending and inwardly started fearing them they said, Do not be afraid we are sent to the people of Lut.

Rather than pretending that the United Nations is some entity distinct from us Member States, we should acknowledge that the Organization is us and that together we determine whether or not it is an effective tool.

6.6 The State party submits that, by falsifying an order code, the author deceived the prison authorities about the purchase of a scanner head for his printer, pretending that he only wanted to buy ink cartridges.

Yet they assign to some of His slaves a share with Him (by pretending that He has children, and considering them as equals or co partners in worship with Him). Verily, man is indeed a manifest ingrate!

Yet they assign to some of His slaves a share with Him (by pretending that He has children, and considering them as equals or co partners in worship with Him). Verily, man is indeed a manifest ingrate!

So investors are telling companies to report their carbon emissions today in order to assess future liabilities. Similarly, many company bosses know that pretending that climate problems do not exist is bad for shareholders, because reality will one day strike.

Thirty two years after the Islamic Republic was established, Iran s tactics are obvious to everyone. The so called students are members of the Basij militia, which was ordered to attack the embassy, with the police only pretending to stop them.

Any meaningful progress toward stabilizing the eurozone would require a significant potentially open ended financial commitment, and the EU is not politically ready to cross that threshold. Repeatedly pretending to move forward, then pulling back at the critical point, exacerbates political uncertainty and economic vulnerability.

Europeans, both debtors and creditors, must address the banking problem forthrightly, and simultaneously with the euro, sovereign debt, and fiscal adjustment issues. Pretending that banks that passed modest stress tests can be kept open indefinitely with little collateral damage is wishful and dangerous thinking.

There is an expression in Iran that applies to the international community You can wake only someone who is sleeping, not someone who is pretending to be asleep. Whether Iran s international interlocutors act on the importance of Rouhani s election is a matter of choice, not of ignorance.

This approach has several advantages by leaving the face value of the debt unaltered, EU officials could argue that restructuring Greece s debt did not amount to a default, thereby limiting contagion. European banks holding Greek government debt could keep pretending that it is worth its full value.

But, to ordinary Indians, this political gamesmanship appeared to be merely a farce the blind pretending to lead the unsighted. Perhaps for the first time ever, India s government failed to enact even a single piece of legislation, much less undertake any economic reforms, restore price stability, or address widespread civil disorder.

There is no point in pretending that this shift is not happening, or that standards set in New York and London will be slavishly followed in Mumbai and Beijing if China and India are not involved in the process. So the increased importance of the G 20 should be welcomed.

It can flinch while pretending not to it can carry on more or less as before, hoping for some positive new development or it can try to decouple Syria from Iran and Hezbollah. The latter option is the only scenario that could stop the Islamist drift in the Middle East.

Now, I'm not pretending that energy use in total isn't increasing, it is that's another part of the story. Come talk to me about it, we'll fill in some of the details but there's a very important message here This is 200 years of history, and for 200 years we've been systematically decarbonizing our energy system.

Israel has invested great financial resources in the settlements, often ignoring important needs in Israel proper. The settlers, predominantly supporters of religious nationalist movements and parties, often flaunt an attitude of superiority in their relations with Israeli authorities, pretending to have a special status with respect not only to Palestinians, but also to other Israeli citizens.

But let s stop pretending that this is a poker game, rather than a scientific and technological puzzle of the highest order. We need the likes of Musk, Lackner, General Electric, Siemens, Ericsson, Intel, Electricité de France, Huawei, Google, Baidu, Samsung, Apple, and others in laboratories, power plants, and cities around the world to forge the technological breakthroughs that will reduce global CO2 emissions.

The record of the last 20 years shows that the Chinese monetary and banking authorities have a habit of taking an ostrich approach to the informal financial sector, pretending that they are regulating the sector until serious problems emerge. This approach cannot last forever, and changing it means acknowledging the backwardness of the formal financial sector and taking remedial action.

Between 1 March and 1 April 2003, in accordance with the Interim regulations the Centre issued a uniform procedure for the registration of contact persons in China of foreign adoption organizations, so as to establish records of the contacts these organizations maintain in China and prevent unauthorized individuals from engaging in activities detrimental to children by pretending to work for a recognized organization.

And they assign to Allah a share of the tilth and cattle which He has created, and they say This is for Allah according to their pretending, and this is for our (Allah's so called) partners. But the share of their (Allah's so called) partners reaches not Allah, while the share of Allah reaches their (Allah's so called) partners ! Evil is the way they judge!

And they assign to Allah a share of the tilth and cattle which He has created, and they say This is for Allah according to their pretending, and this is for our (Allah's so called) partners. But the share of their (Allah's so called) partners reaches not Allah, while the share of Allah reaches their (Allah's so called) partners ! Evil is the way they judge!