Sentences with phrase «by pretending»

The fact that current tenants benefit at the expense of those in nearby areas and all other future prospective tenants can be masked by pretending current tenants interests are the same as all actual and prospective tenants.

However, the court ruled that she helped manipulate the transaction by pretending that closing costs were being paid for by gifts from third parties and not by the sellers, which isn't permitted under an FHA loan.

I've been strung along by some pretending to be a «friend» of the seller, and unethical middlemen who have never declared to the seller that they, the wholesaler, will not be buying the property.

And second, if you think that you can fake your way to the top by pretending you're nice and then turning on people when they're not useful, you're wrong.

Crooks harm credit scores by pretending to pay off debt: A good rule of thumb is «never pay... https://goo.gl/fb/G41WRm

He does this by pretending that he enjoys painting the fence and doesn't want to let anyone else join in.

They hung those members out to dry by pretending things were OK to the public.

And so maybe it's a bit deranged to profess that the other parent must prove to perfect strangers how cooperative, friendly and «child - centered» she or he is by pretending the other is the «child - centered co-parent».

If either person is unable to have their partner's best interest at heart and to support their dreams in some way, then a betrayal is being committed by pretending to be there, while not.

Indigenous health inequalities will not be reduced by pretending that racism isn't really affecting us, psychologically, materially, and physiologically.

@turquoise — I knew a counselor who told me that we can overcome emotional insecurity by pretending that we are secure.

Her writing invites us to believe in ourselves, to be brave and kind, to let go of the idea of perfection, and to stop making motherhood, marriage, and friendship harder by pretending they're not hard.

Interview Prep Questions — Displaying questions in the form of a digital flash card, practice your answers by pretending you're on an interview.

On the other hand, you can relive «Top Gun» memories by pretending your sedan is really a Grumman F - 14 Tomcat.

He also approaches it in light hearted jest by pretending that he had already purchased a Quantum computer.

But we won't build that ecosystem by pretending that this is a matter of a few bad actors.

If you're at relatives for Christmas and they have Chrome installed on their computer then you can access everything you need and get out of another round of charades by pretending you've got important work to do.

Whether you're trying to watch Netflix from India or to keep the local government off your back by pretending to be from Canada, your new VPN - toting router has you covered.

Hackers also abused Facebook's account recovery function, by pretending to be legitimate users who had forgotten account details.

Your 1099 - MISC is tied to your Social Security number, so you won't be fooling anyone by pretending it isn't yours.

One in six are fudging the truth to help their kids to obtain coverage According to the results of new research thousands of parents are committing auto insurance fraud by pretending that they are the primary driver of a vehicle that is actually being used mainly by their student daughter or son.

Phishing over the phone is one of the most common ways someone will try to get you to give them some of your personal information or hard - earned cash by pretending they're the IRS.

So, he's broken the law by pretending to be a barrister.

Apparently, English journalists, when they couldn't get the default passwords such as 1111 or 4444 to work, would try to talk their way into the information by pretending to service providers to be the account holders — blagging.

David Lat made a name for himself by pretending to be a woman and writing about topics such as «superhotties of the federal judiciary.»

Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Ewaryst Prokofiew and a co-accused were charged with conspiracy to defraud the federal government of $ 3.25 million by pretending to sell heavy equipment to generate HST that they didn't submit to the government.

This is rationalized by pretending that lawyers have no interest in profit and, therefore, absent an inherently unethical and greedy non-lawyer, the lawyer can work for a client free of any concerns over money.

Or perhaps it is driven by the journalists desperate to maintain their scoop by pretending to their editors that this nonsense hasn't been debunked a hundred times already?

These simulations can be used as a numerical laboratory in which we can test the reconstruction methods and assess their potential limitations, by pretending to derive proxy records of the model climate, called «pseudo-proxies».

It's crime, and Connolly's one of the criminals that keeps the criminal wheel running by pretending he believes magic gas is hiding infrared spectrum light in the atmosphere not a single detector can find.

Though I suspect we all know what Latimer Alder meant to say by his gloss, it's only by pretending we don't know what he means that we would ever raise the issue.

Van Jones, previously Deputy Assistant to the President for Destroying Coal Miners» Jobs, deflects responsibility by pretending to care about the very people whose lives he and his former boss have worked so diligently to destroy.

When the truth is unknown, imaginative descriptions of it by those pretending to know are not winners or losers, they are only charlatans or fools.

The deniers, particularly the activist ones, are not interested in the details of science - they win by pretending to and keeping well informed understanding folks busy looking for citations of bogus details, or filling in the context of selected snippets, as in the original CRU «revelations».

This blog is exploiting scientific ignorance by pretending that «only» 38 % somehow makes the conclusions of every major scientific organization invalid.

Unless I'm mistaken, the regression dilution results from the fact that the general E [y x] distribution is asymmetric and implicitly ignoring this by pretending x variability does not «matter» leads to a biased result.

Fanny as usual here tries to pull the old trick beloved of intellectually bankrupt alarmist bigots, by pretending there are only CAGW consensus truthers and deniers, no skeptics / thinkers.

Steven Mosher January 27, 2014 at 1:52 pm Sorry Guys, but Robert is correct.The only way you get a cooler arctic is by pretending that it warms as fast as the global average,

The Swedes said «no» to the request for CRU - homogenized data to be released — and Acton and Jones misrepresented that «no» to the UK parliamentary inquiry (by pretending it applied to raw data).

Forcing large corporations and governments to waste money by pretending to be green because they fear the accusations they are not good citizens.

Political opponents on the right and in some sectors of the oil and gas business, for their part, accused Trudeau of shallow political theatre, posing as a friend of the industry to win a few Red Tory votes by pretending to put his weight behind a project his environmentalist allies would surely block.

Now that we have dealt with your effort to duck the issue by pretending that this obviously hypothetical tale is grounds to just call me crazy in a personal attack, can we get on with the question?

Having no way to reduce SE, politicians adopted PNS to reduce the perception of error by pretending that

Regrettably, your colleagues in the liberal environmental movement responded at first by pretending we don't exist, and when opinion polls and political decisions revealed that strategy wasn't working, by denouncing us as «deniers» and «shills for the fossil fuel industry.»

I make up for that by pretending to know about stuff.

By pretending otherwise you are subsidizing the behavior.

Trying to sweep this under the carpet by pretending it is a filter artefact is disingenuous and misleading.

««A sensible debate,» Lilley writes, «has been averted by pretending that the Climate Change Act is virtually costless, that there are not more cost - effective ways of meeting these targets and that the climate risks averted are imminent, not centuries hence.»

All of that makes it harder for a reader to see your comment not only failed to respond to what I said, but by pretending to be responsive, grossly misrepresented my remark.

So what advantage does he gain by pretending to have gotten religion on climate change?