Sentences with phrase «under false pretenses as»

The second is an unnamed man masquerading under false pretenses as a teacher who is intent on bringing the school to ruin The third voice belongs to a young adolescent boy thirteen years in the past who, as the son of St Oswald's caretaker but destined to attend the scruffy local state school, finds himself drawn to the august corridors of St Oswald's.

-- St. Thomas Aquinas We as academicians are «lovers of wisdom» first and last, and should we not be so, we would be serving under false pretenses as professors of....

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When Léa and Mathieu first cross paths, it is under false pretenses - Mathieu is posing as a vegetarian, infiltrating the local animal rights community for information that will force Léa's restaurant toward a swifter demise.

WHAT: After leaving the jungles of Africa to assume his rightful position as British aristocrat John Clayton III alongside his wife Jane (Margot Robbie), the man formerly known as Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) is lured back to the Congo under false pretenses.

Each of these characters is satisfactorily developed, but we get to know Dave best, as he starts up a romance with a college girl (Robyn Douglass) under false pretenses, calling himself an Italian exchange student named Enrico Gimondi (after a fictional opera singer).

You're fine without their signature, as long as you didn't interview them under false pretenses (i.e., they didn't understand why they were being interviewed).

This may include white collar crimes like fraud, false representation or pretenses, embezzlement or larceny, or more serious acts such as damages you owe to victims if you were at fault for causing someone else's death, such as vehicular manslaughter while driving under the influence or operating a boat or aircraft while intoxicated.

Unvetted adopters take animals into their homes under false pretenses, often for heartbreaking purposes such as dog fighting and torture.

Gleick acknowledges that he, an outside critic of the organization, solicited and received Heartland documents under false pretenses, an action he describes as a «serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics.»

From my perspective what B has done, aside from cause undue stress and disruption to my tenants, is act as my agents under false pretenses and intercept rent money without my authority to do so.

Zent's statement makes it sound as if I joined the site under false pretenses — for the «sole purpose... to blog about Foxwordy and its members» activities.»

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry define insurance fraud as, «The act of making a statement known to be false and used to induce another party to issue a contract or pay a claim.This act must be wilful and deliberate, involve financial gain, done under false pretenses and is illegal.»

The whistleblower who publicly revealed how Trump - affiliated data firm Cambridge Analytica used information mined from Facebook under false pretenses during the 2016 election cycle will give an interview to Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee as part of their investigation of Russian interference in the election, including possible ties to Donald Trump's campaign.

Landing a job under false pretenses will only create anxiety and an ever - present sense of impending doom as you continually wait for the other shoe to drop.

Many practitioners cite an increase in a tactic known as bait and switch, whereby lenders lure prospective borrowers into their offices with unusually low interest rates, then raise that rate at the last minute under false pretenses.