Fights were sometimes orchestrated under false pretences, so that inmates could swipe and pilfer a target person's store items. |
If his case doesn't justify asylum, then there are millions of undeserving asylum seekers living here under false pretences. |
But Baptists would readminister the rite to every one who had received it on false pretences, or to whom it had been involuntarily administered. |
He was planning to take advantage of the Hales' sympathy to obtain money from them on false pretences. |
That was what made for me its philosophical pretences so unpardonable. |
The apter he is to smatter, the slower he is in making any advance in his pretences. |