Afremov, who claimed that the accusations were a pretense for the Amplatz family to wipe out his equity, sued.
Such half-truths are a pernicious way of lying because the whole truth is being hidden under a pretense of honesty.
"East Germans did not speak about this, but now we know that 'conservation purposes' was just a pretense, " Mr. Maaz said.
"There was a pretense of process, " said Spitzer during a Monday press conference regarding his lawsuit concerning the compensation of former New York Stock Exchange chief Richard Grasso.
He was speaking directly to all the New Yorkers watching on the other end without even a pretense that the journalist was doing anything more than holding the microphone.
Chevron has never made a pretense of playing nice with the U.S. lawyers suing it over pollution left over from when its Texaco unit was drilling for oil in the jungles of Ecuador.
The credibility of balance sheets around the world are dependent upon the outcome of the discussions that take place in Europe over the next two days, not least because pretending that this is just an issue that relates to Greece is now just that i.e. a pretense.
But we know that we have situations in which honoring pacts is a mere pretense: everybody is busy dishonoring them, and tricks and frauds subsequently multiply in the most egregious ways.
The simple paneling behind, frameless glass enclosure and backlit LED lighting make a statement without all the pretense and formality of a traditional cellar.
Defense attorney Jeffrey Denner is expected to portray his client as a man who lived a life of pretense but didn't kill anyone.
In recent years prefab, boxy housing units with no pretense to a boating heritage have been floated onto the canals.
Critics say India could use the pretense of security concerns to cover a broad swath of technology products and questioned the logic of the proposed move.
Last time I stayed at the very impressive Hutton Hotel, which is a very nice and somewhat trendy boutique hotel, sort of a more upscale W or Kimpton, but without any pretense.
Unlike ivi, which distributed grabbed local TV signals in New York, Seattle and other markets and routed them through its servers to subscribers, Aereo at least makes the technological pretense that its subscribers are receiving the signal from a tiny individual antenna equivalent to the rabbit ears that used to sit atop every TV set.
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So, back to the scene of the crime where we got Griffin in a lingerie store and he has picked out some items on the pretense that he wanted to buy them.
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The poorly domesticated Paul lives tensely with his grimly steadfast wife (Marie-Paule Laval), their teen-age son, and a newborn daughter, yet brazenly philanders with Ulrika (Johanna ter Steege), who makes no pretense of loving him.
Levy wrote a lengthy article in the New York Times about how Russian security services arrested members of an environmental group under the pretense that they were using pirated Microsoft software.
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