Examples of using Pretensions in English and their translations into Russian
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No pretensions.
A pest… With pretensions.
The pretensions of the Day Watch is reasonable.
Posturing and Pretensions, 2002.
I did it because I was fascinated by it, without any pretensions.
I have no pretensions or illusions.
I would like to stress that we do not have any pretensions to Info 9 itself.
The pretensions of Russian lawmaker Baburin and Alksnis are understandable.
La Antadze described radio Hereti pretensions as unserious.
There are no pretensions to them from participants, since they scammed nobody.
That's all you care about.Your pathetic noble pretensions.
The savage mind made no pretensions to being consistent.
All Governments are, therefore, interested in restricting such pretensions.
He was ashamed of his boasting his pretensions of courage and ruthlessness.
Pretensions to knowledge of an orthodox truth result in a condition of ignorance.
Condemning the body you can become only a hypocrite, you can only live a life of pretensions.
In the past, however, pretensions to the interpretation of the essence of the relation were stated several times.
He put reality in the place of tradition and swept aside all pretensions of vanity and hypocrisy.
The pretensions to a coercive quantitative universalism ultimately has passed over to Communism, to the godless kingdom of Caesar.
We do not have any territorial claims or any political pretensions concerning Lebanon.
The pretensions of a philosophic knowing to substitute for religious faith ought to be, not only religiously, but also philosophically repudiated.
We do not assume at all that Armenian media are sinless anddo not give ground for serious pretensions.
Just because every quasi-bohemian hipster with pretensions of literary greatness worshiped Kerouac.
In the book of Grenier one can find many accurate critical observations concerning Marxism and its orthodox pretensions.
However, as his pretensions to the Serbian throne were not viewed favourably in Vienna the emperor refused to allow his enrolment.
My delegation calls on India andPakistan to reconsider their nuclear pretensions and to become parties to the CTBT.
Russia's pretensions to maintain its domination in the post-Soviet area are implemented in a“directed crisis” for states willing to break off.
It mentioned the misdeeds of the usurper, Napoleon Bonaparte,it denounced all his pretensions to sovereignty, it disclaimed all allegiance to him.
The larger car's handling also suffered perhaps unfair comparison with that of the Giulietta Spider, andthis is an important factor in a car with sporting pretensions.
The stereoscopic image, initially far removed from aesthetic pretensions, has been appropriated as a mode of art and thereby acquired new importance.