Examples of using Pretensions in English and their translations into Russian
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He put reality in the place of tradition and swept aside all pretensions of vanity and hypocrisy.
Russia's pretensions to maintain its domination in the post-Soviet area are implemented in a“directed crisis” for states willing to break off.
Condemning the body you can become only a hypocrite, you can only live a life of pretensions.
this is an important factor in a car with sporting pretensions.
occupation of representatives of political parties does not substantiate the pretensions to represent some social levels with certain specifics.
it denounced all his pretensions to sovereignty, it disclaimed all allegiance to him.
In the book of Grenier one can find many accurate critical observations concerning Marxism and its orthodox pretensions.
Ge has many times published materials in which representatives of local self-government expressed pretensions to articles published at the web-portal.
And it was thus with all the theocratic currents, with pretensions to formally subject the society to a church.
which has political pretensions, is seeking to achieve a measure of respectability.
Became skilled in intrigues and infamies, people with overestimated pretensions wouldn't stop in front of anything to get hold of desired.
Probably I'm not the only one who skeptically approached pretensions expressed to their management by certain journalists after 1 October parliamentary elections.
negotiators display seemingly limitless ingenuity which precludes any pretensions to exhaustiveness.
But the first sample Hangman game was invented paper and with pretensions to intellectuality.
very great- all of our moral sense rebels in response to the pretensions of such a faith.
She says there have been reports of this Adams fellow and his pretensions, that might have given her friends uneasiness.
A modern girl's pretensions to resist“capture,” to be reticent toward marriage,
described by critic John Walker as"the ultimate garage band with pretensions.
I enjoyed just hearing him speak and there were no pretensions in his manner.
As one of the solutions towards pretensions appearing to ratings she named creation of an industrial committee, which will unite broadcasters,