This desire could prompt it to start behaving better, but cynics suspect that it will merely pretend to.
So let us pay their due to those who, not being truly great, do not pretend to be.
Instead WellPoint went along with what turned out to be extremely bad p.r. strategy by the industry to pretend they were on board with reform even though they opposed the core tenets of the legislation.
We definitely are not the perfect couple and we don't pretend to be so.
What worries me is that the Democrats aren't what they pretend to be.
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Physically fearless and noble without limit, he has only one flaw: He knows that he is a great man, and refuses to pretend otherwise.
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But although this was embarrassing, it was not calamitous: it was a muffled wail, as it were, that the master of Thornfield Hall could pretend not to hear.
One of the oddest things about the UN climate process is the way it virtually forces countries with diametrically opposed interests to huddle close and pretend to be friends.
Some Chinese restaurants pretend to be Korean.
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Some investment firms reckon that in order to succeed as a shareholder activist in France, it is best to pretend not to be one at all.
Occasionally a fellow Costco-ite would sit down at the piano and pretend to play a tune.
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No will - the parties do not completely agree and see little reason to pretend they do.
The result was that the mullahs and state corporatists no longer saw a need to play pretend.
They thought it was important to pretend to solve the U.S. debt crisis.
Ms. BERNADETTA LATEDA(ph) (Volunteer, ADICAP): This is area of the shelter, and the area where they pretend to build the houses.
Criminals love contact lists as they give them valid email addresses and someone who they can pretend to be - you.
Knowledgeable networkers are very good at what they do, and at the same time, do not pretend to know it all.
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And they were concerned that ministers tried to pretend there was.
With time, the band's bombastic nature and unconventional electro-pop music caught the eye of indie label Cantora Records, with whom it released the first MGMT EP, Time To Pretend.
In a recent Forbes post, Tara Tiger Brown argues that fake geeks and poseurs of all stripes should just butt out of her world and stop trying to pretend.
The Anti Defamation League called MacFarlane our for a skit where Ted suggested to his costar Mark Wahlberg that he should pretend to be Jewish to get ahead in Hollywood.
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It was the one where Jerry takes George to stake out a cute girl he met at a party but whose name he never got so he has to pretend to bump into her.
And I think it is wrong to pretend that we are trying to set an agenda.
Private employers have such a strong preference for foreigners that many resort to creating pretend jobs for Saudis to meet increasingly tough quotas.
You don't have to leave food on your plate and pretend the man next to you is interesting.
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Especially people you actually know -- it's awkward and borderline weird-as-balls to pretend not to see someone 6 inches away from you.
Yet communications companies still make lobbyists in Washington rich by trying to pretend nothing has changed.
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