Sentences with word «pretends»

While McDonald's pretends to be «giving back,» it continues to lobby against policies to reduce junk food marketing to children and refuses to pay its workers a living wage, despite growing protests.

The cover story pretends to be about trade, but the real agenda is to force privatization and disable government regulation.

The first time I tap the video, it «pretends» to upload, then it doesn't appear as media, then when I try to re-upload, tapping the video doesn't do anything.

«This trend just pretends it doesn't cost anything to have a society that makes this kind of multinational business possible, and it does cost something,» Christians says.

He sometimes dresses up and pretends he is Warren Buffett but he is really not,» she said.

Moviefone, founded in 1989, was immortalized in the Seinfeld episode «The Pool Guy,» in which Cosmo Kramer pretends to be an announcer.

Check out Catherine's impressive skills as she pretends to auction off a winged Pegasus carousel horse.

«Today everyone just does a package tour, pretends it's really exciting, that it is an experience.

This description pretends to be neutral.

Top answer: «The simple answer is no... The genius of Batman is that it pretends to be realistic.

This ignores how differently each of us learns and pretends that a single instructor standing in front of a classroom full of kids can effectively teach anything to all of them at the same time.

It's when someone pretends to have a significant other over social media, when they're actually single.

Regardless of the occasion, there's always that awkward moment where someone pretends to use the restroom but is really trying to tell a waiter about the reason you're celebrating — and ask for a birthday cake.

Are you the only one who engages in political conversation with that one deranged uncle at Thanksgiving while everyone else pretends to focus on the football and pumpkin pie?

Gstaad is the skiing village that every other skiing village wishes it was or pretends to be.

(3) It pretends to go it alone, or does go it alone initially as a means of applying pressure for a «coalition» response to the alleged Iranian threat.

«I have a 9 - month - old who pretends he's pooping (squat and grunt really loud) when he feels like I'm not giving him attention.»

So for example, you could have fake directors where you pay a little bit extra and someone pretends to be the public face of this company.

But we demean and diminish the standouts and the ones who will really make a difference in our lives when we insist on lumping them with the rest of the mediocre pack while pretending that the world doesn't care about outcomes.

But during the digital coin sale, scammers pretending to be the founders of Bee Token inserted themselves into the money flow, by sending an email to people prompting them to invest in that ICO.

«Go on,» he said, pretending to be frustrated.

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

When bill collectors called, Schultz or his siblings were instructed to pick up the phone and pretend that their parents weren't home.

Allow me to present a solution for those of us who struggle daily to lace up the sneakers: forget running groups, personal bests and pretending you're going to hit the treadmill at lunch.

Some drivers — not all, but some, because major cultural shifts are always gradual — will feel less need to pretend they're OK.

You have to pretend that you're OK.

«When I was going on the academic job market, worrying about the campus interview, my friend Matt Seigel told me to just be myself because otherwise, if I got hired as the person I was pretending to be, I would have to keep up that pretense for the rest of my career,» she says.

«Pretend your eyes are glued to your conversation partner's with sticky warm taffy,» Lowndes advises.

I talked with Renee and asked her to pretend she ran into a business owner at an airport and had five minutes to share some of the top takeaways from the book.

Pretending that every idea is possible or worthy of consideration and discussion, and trying to always be politically correct or constructive in your criticism, is a formula for failure.

When Vitter was in the House of Representatives he actually took calls from the DC Madam during roll call votes; later, Sen. Vitter expressed outrage over purported actions of the poverty group ACORN, where several staffers showed tolerance toward conservative operatives with a hidden camera who were pretending to be involved in prostitution.

So, in an effort to switch up my workout routine, get a bigger and better butt, and realize my childhood dream of pretending to be JLo, I decided to try her workouts — known as some of the strictest in Hollywood — for a week.

As for Anthony Weiner, he was targeted by the late provocateur Andrew Breitbart and fellow Right - wing activists who used fake email addresses and pretended to be underage girls.

Just don't pretend it's a business card.

Effectively all, including business people who would consider any job applicant a clown for pretending that awareness alone held a candle to experience.

If you're doing 40 or 45 in a 55 zone, and there aren't legal places to pass, and four or five cars have lined up behind you... pretend you're a tractor: Pull off and let everyone by.

And the problem with that is that jargon isn't very clear; they also discovered that 88 percent of Americans pretend to understand office jargon.

Now, I can't pretend to know whether they're using this data for nefarious reasons (I can almost bet they are), but we do know that they use this data to understand whether users are having a positive user experience on a website.

«We sometimes need to pretend there's no extra time so it gives us the motivation to do it,» explains Steel.

«The Spyder F3 is not a motorcycle, and we're not going to pretend otherwise,» reads Peter Jones» review of the Spyder F3 in Cycle World, a powersports trade publication.

In January, Litecoin founder Charlie Lee found the need to warn follows away from an an account pretending to be none other than Lee himself.

«To pretend that Mexican companies would really pay is a distortion,» says J. Bradford Jensen, an economics professor at Georgetown University.

Posting a pretend wedding photo prompted an avalanche of response and showed just how fast you can spread the word online.

Canadians can extend their debt repayment terms and pretend to live a lifestyle they can't otherwise obtain.

«I'm not going to pretend to suggest that people are unanimously agreeing with our actions,» says Marcello.

Besides, everyone is aware of the fact that money is the most important element of the deal, so there is no need for you to pretend that you think differently.

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

Ikea displayed a photograph of a young boy with his finger under his nose as a «pretend mustache» — reminding customers of Adolf Hitler.

«We can't simply expect to keep Ontario competitive but then pretend that we're not in a competition.»

Scott Terrio, an estate administrator at Cooper & Co., a licensed insolvency trustee in Toronto, calls this phenomenon «extend and pretend.»