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A small foreign private entity such as GLNG can't win against politicians who do as it pleases them on the pretense of superior national interests.
Because here’s the problem with passing laws targeting LGBTQ people under the false pretense of protecting women: At some point you have to do the dirty work of actually targeting LGBTQ people.
Charged with defrauding by false pretense, Fredricca Appiah pleaded not guilty.
He said the defendants also, on the same date and aforesaid place, did by false pretense and with intent to defraud, obtained a sum of N11,300,000 from job seekers.
I make no pretense to be able to divine the thinking that prevails within senior Ukrainian military circles, but the basic math does them no favors.
Source: https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-bacevich/2023/06/01/the-compulsion-to-intervene/
Most inexplicably, definitely regrettably, this massive leverage is what the PPP Government sitting in the driver’s seat yields to Exxon without so much as crumb for it, even the pretense of a fight for it.
Source: https://demerarawaves.com/2023/05/18/opinion-exxons-stock-plunge-what-is-it-saying/
She was also duped out of ¥50,000 in electronic money under the pretense of resolving a dispute regarding her transfer, they said.
Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/11/09/japan/crime-legal/japan-fraud-suspects/
The Cherry Cricket in Denver’s upscale Cherry Creek district prides itself on being the neighborhood renegade as a popular bar flipping big juicy hamburgers without pretense.
The detention and persecution of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free…
The Fed is supposed to be a nonpartisan and nonpolitical institution, but it has now dropped all pretense of such idealistic notions and become a tool in the hands of its woke masters.
Source: https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/01/08/opinion/opinion-contributor/fed-wokeness-banking-crisis/
The married couple who have fallen out of love continue the pretense of a “happy marriage” for a good reason: the facade of lovey-dovey normalcy plays well socially and in their careers.
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/06/charles-hugh-smith/2023-2030-artifice-vs-doom-loops/
The prosecution argued that the pair’s relationship was based on a false pretense — and therefore her catfishing victim did not give true consent.
Source: https://nypost.com/2023/06/14/georgia-bilham-found-guilty-of-sexual-assault-by-kissing/
The second impeachment is another matter: it was a snap decision with no pretense of process.
The victim, who cannot be named because of legal reasons, claimed he was lured to the United Kingdom under the pretense of opportunity in the country.
They were arraigned before Justice Mohammed Owolabi of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan, on a three-count charge which borders on forgery, uttering of documents and obtaining money in false pretense to the tune of N9million.
To preserve the possibility of achieving either, we must drop the pretense of neutrality and act accordingly.
Source: http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2023/02/the-dark-side-of-neutrality.html
Trump was enthralled with Kim Jong Un’s pretense.
Source: https://triblive.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-lets-look-at-trumps-accomplishments/
“You can pretend nothing is happening until boys are being enlisted and sent to death, so in September, it was impossible to make this pretense anymore, and the level of support for the regime began falling immediately,” Ivanov said.