They pretend to work and have neither the time nor the incentive to start businesses or acquire skills.
Then when they grow back to where they were, they pretend it's progress.
What worries me is that the Democrats aren't what they pretend to be.
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Ms. BERNADETTA LATEDA(ph) (Volunteer, ADICAP): This is area of the shelter, and the area where they pretend to build the houses.
When I tell them my age, they pretend to be matter of fact but at the same time I can see their eyes nearly popping out of their heads!
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In that 2010 drama, which marked his return to narrative filmmaking, a French gallery owner living in Tuscany (Juliette Binoche) meets a British philosopher (William Shimell), and they pretend to be husband and wife.
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But they cannot pretend that by staying they are not full partners in the government's policies.
What is more, they must pretend not to be eavesdropping even though they are only a few feet away from the mediated conversation, ideally by assuming a pose of concentration on some other object, such as their fingernails or their own phone.
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There is no gift from them, but by signing on you just gifted them everything they need to pretend that they are you and thus fool your friends.
If they almost reached the stretch goal but not entirely, they will be inclined to pretend they did, and cook the books.
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They are losing their integrity because they always pretend to be like someone else.
Criminals love contact lists as they give them valid email addresses and someone who they can pretend to be - you.
"I think they should pretend like the wedding never happened when it comes to endorsing products, " he told the BBC website.
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Janet Paraskeva, the Law Society's chief executive, welcomes the prospect of outside investment and even concedes that lawyers' precious professionalism does not mean they must pretend not to be running businesses.
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What these new Starbucks stores are doing is ditching the corporate brand so they can pretend to be one of those genuine mom-and-pop stores, while still earning money to feed the global enterprise.
"They loved to dress up and dance to Beyonce, pretend they were Beyonce, " Angela Hornsby said.
Overall, they've got to do better than trash Kerry and pretend they're moderates.
And they kept the face value 100 cents on the dollar, thus allowing the creditors to pretend they still want it.
At least American trustbusters pretend they are concerned about the well-being of the consumer.
They choose to pretend like nothing can ever change, even when the trends are obvious.
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No will - the parties do not completely agree and see little reason to pretend they do.
The instinct is to hide problems or pretend they don't exist rather than face them head on.
For them to pretend they were more eurosceptic and willing to cut the budget was purely opportunistic.
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On the other side are the Democrats who like to pretend they're not.
To help Windows XP cope, advanced format drives will be able to pretend they still use sectors 512 bytes in size.
But we will not actually make the world a better place by enabling the lunatics in Sacramento to pretend they can have both.
The investors are supposed to pretend they are surprised when the analysts for the underwriters of any given deal issue Buy recommendations on the stocks.
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No less disingenuously, liberal senators pretend they are trying to gauge Mr Alito's legal philosophy when they are trying to catch him out on Roe.
Judges like to pretend they are neutral arbiters, and the refusal to act has fewer consequences than stepping in and deciding whether a case should proceed.
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