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pre·tens·es
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of pretenses in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of pretenses in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of pretenses in a Sentence
If I think its funny, if my audience will thinkits funny, then Illdo the joke, you know? ive always run underthe pretenses of if you dont like the comedian andyou dont think that hes funny then dont go to his show, dont buy his stuff -- thats how it works.
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.
Defendants case is not an isolated one, but instead appears to be part of a program conducted by the PLAand specifically, FMMU or associated institutionsto send military scientists to the United States on false pretenses with false covers or false statements about their true employment.
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
A decade ago, soldiers across Colombia lured civilians to remote locations under false pretenses such as with promises of work killed them, placed weapons on their lifeless bodies, and then reported them as enemy combatants killed in action, one cant help wonder if any of the cockades in their uniforms, or the promotions throughout successful careers, corresponds to the murder of innocent civilians committed over a decade ago.
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