Sentences with phrase «pretending things»

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

Too much money to be made pretending things haven't changed.

You can't run a business by sticking your head in the sand, pretending things aren't changing, and THEN decide 5 years after the fact that you should try what Amazon has ALREADY done and attempt to corner the market share with -LSB-...]

It's tempting to want to stick your head in the sand and pretend things will get better on their own.

The problem is when you have an average defensive midfielder then your backline can never be at rest.Coquelin should have started this match.Some people think he's average but I feel he's been played out of position and being tasked with doing too much like a box to box player.How can someone who bases his game on tackling and interception lose that ability all of a sudden and you tell me nothing's wrong but bdcause he's average.Are we fans going to ignore what is plain to us?Let's just pretend things are alright.Then after we win the cracks will be papered only for them to be exposed another day.

So, you might see kids starting to pretend with their dollies or pretend things.

The former governor said he still isn't able to laugh about the prostitution scandal that forced him to resign from office three years ago this month, but also doesn't «live in a hermetically sealed container and pretend things didn't happen.»

While he tries to pretend things are getting better, patients and NHS staff can see it's getting worse in front of their eyes.»

He evades questions, he pretends things are not in his power when they are, he dodges responsibility, he fails to live up to the promises he has made.

Basically stop the Labour - bashing and don't pretend things are better than they are:

There is no end in sight to the weird in - universe marketing campaign for Batman v Superman, and their pair of Turkish Airline (real thing) commercials introduce the two fair cities (pretend things) that our heroes call home:

«We can be so proud of this country,» Winters says, «but we can't pretend its legacy doesn't also include generations of violence and subjugation, and we can't pretend those things aren't still playing out.»

Pretend that things have already started to change so much that some of the suggestions are redundant, then mention how the issues mentioned aren't that big a problem anyway and, actually, the way publishers have been doing it in the past is much better that what is suggested.

No need to tell them the mortgage is paid off, either — pretend things are normal.

In doing so you pretend things like this do not exist, and then the suffering and sacrifice become meaningless.»

Posted to: Parenting Self - management December 4th, 2009 Del.icio.us Over eighteen months, we pretend things have changed, but really, here's where we are: The farmer owns about 100 acres on his own.

I agree, I don't like to pretend things are something they aren't.

Not exact matches

It is much easier to pretend that things are fine and look for the positives instead of being honest.

It's really easy to make really bad movies about really good things because you can just pretend to understand what they do.

I mean, why would I want to go on Peeple and pretend I'm somebody else to write good things about you?

You're assuming that the organization has deliberately avoided paying you while pretending it's doing the right thing, because the people in accounting don't want to get yelled at.

I'll tell you why: Because it suggested that things were so badly run at Uber with regard to treating women techies fairly that one manager could not even pretend to make an effort on even the most basic of gestures to allow his female employees to feel included.

I was close to the Papandreou family — I still am in a way — but I became prominent... back then it was big news that a former adviser was saying «We're pretending bankruptcy didn't happen, we're trying to cover it up with new unsustainable loans,» that kind of thing.

Let's pretend you do things «the right way»: You go to work, put a little money into a savings account / CD every month (to avoid risk), and then happily retire with a nice nest egg.

And this point dovetails with the other point as far as since we don't pretend to know the precise timing of when bubbles kind of unwind or when the busts will finally reach a bottom, the idea is that we can actually be in the right quartile of activity, in other words I never try to catch the very top of a bubble, I don't try to ride things to the very end, and similarly I don't mind catching falling knifes.

Academic textbooks pretend that the economy is all about production and consumption — factories producing the things their workers buy.

One thing I like about this story: nobody is even trying to pretend this isn't about religion.

You are doing a disservice to humanity by pretending to preach things you surely neither comprehend nor believe.

I might know inportant things like that if I spent more time reading and learning and less time praying and pretending to read the Bible, which most of us Christians only pretend to do, but the truth is that we don't like to read.

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

Ha ha ha... isn't that cute... someone pretending to be an agnostic saying bad things to make it look like agnostics are bad people.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

You know an education is a wonderful thing - you might wish to consider actually getting one instead of pretending to have one!

I'm not Angelina Jolie, and in no way do I pretend to be an expert on any of the things that I share with you.

Without pretending to be scientific about it, the world may be imagined to be a vast collection of existences — things and substances of various compositions and kinds — each of which is what it is, and moves, changes, grows, or decays as it does by reason of its relation to other things: things existing in various ways by, and in some cases, at the expense of, or on, other things.

«God did HEARTLESS and HORRENDOUS things... Don't try to PRETEND those are examples of GOOD «objective morality».

And I was posing as a customer - pretending to be the very thing that I despised.

Religion: myths invented by simple desert dwellers, with lies piled on top of lies, believed by mentally ill fools, pretending to know things they do not.

They pretend to know things they don't.

See, devin, this is when things get tough to keep it civilized, because I honestly want to say, either you're pretending to not see the comparison just to be difficult, even though you do, or, you're just flat out not smart enough to understand it....

Don't be surprised if the bully pretends that they are not a bully and that you are imagining things.

Yeah, but he got 80 % of us to never read the whole thing, and 100 % of us to just do what we want and pretend that's God's real will anyway.

The disheartening thing is that grown - up people pretend these fairy tales are real.

Since what I hear over an amplified PA system (kind of hard to «ignore» 70 db invocations in a mid size room, tbh) are things in the prayer I passionately disagree with, yet barred by prayer protocol to challenge the assertions of the prayperson (which such challenges to ideas are encouraged at public meetings) it sets up a «I'm not going to get anything accomplished unless I pretend I am one of them.»

Are you pretending to know things you don't?

Faith can be defined as pretending to know things you do not.

You may have faith, but you are simply pretending to know things you do not know (admitting the preceding definition of faith is not mine but I do like it).

One thing I can not stand more than people pretending to speak for invisible spirits is someone pretending to speak for me.

It's too bad you had to lose your job because of this post, but in so many ways aren't you glad you no longer have to pretend you believe all those things?

How can faith (pretending to know things you don't) have real substance?