Against these pretentionsthe Apostle sets the true wisdom of the Gospel.
It is this heat of the blood, which I very much fear age will never correct, that made me defend with so much ardor the just pretentions which I had to the invention of my escapement when it was contested eighteen months ago.
But much of Gods justice, & mans folly will at length be discovered, through all the filmes and pretentions of Religion, in which Polititians wrap up their designes: in vaine do men hope to build their Piety on the Ruines of loyalty.
Not only backed, but no doubt inspired, by the Berlin Government, Austria would not consent to reduce by an iota her unfair pretentions against Servia.
Unfortunately at this time other matters, concerning the frères hospitaliers as a body having pretentions to be recognized as a religious community, began to occupy the attention of France.
The church at Montreal now took on parochial airs and pretentions although it was not canonically erected as a parish till 1678, and it must have its marguilliers, or church wardens.
If he was not sent of God, the pretentions of the Latter-day Saints to be the true Gospel church are without foundation, and their labors for the redemption of the world must prove a failure.
Apart from the rest, and having greater pretentions to architectural grandeur, stood a dwelling, surrounded with several other buildings appertaining to it.
I found by long experience that the loosest principles and most abandoned behaviour carried all before them in pretentions to women of fortune.
How many Whigs and Tories have changed their parties, when their good or bad pretentions have met with a check to their higher preferment?
Caesar or Nothing; their several pretentions to preference were not to be limited within the laws of harmony; they would all choose their own songs, but not more to set off themselves than to oppose or deprive another of an occasion to shine.
Caesar and Pompey made not a warmer division in the Roman Republick than those heroines, their country women, the Faustina and Cuzzoni, blew up in our commonwealth of academical musick by their implacable pretentions to superiority.
And as these men made no pretentions to inspiration, unless the translation is substantially correct, as to matters of fact, how are the common people benefited by a revelation from God!
If the prophets where not divinely inspired, will you suggest any way by which their pretentions to divine inspiration can be reconciled with their honesty?
He was at home with his social superiors and had some pretentions to literary culture, he had a coarse gift for the vivid phrase in writing, and his tastes in art ran to the classic and heroic.
Its pretentions have been viewed from every standpoint, and are found lacking in every element of consistency and truth.
It is a singular fact that of all these people the thievish meat-eating Apache is almost the only one who makes any pretentions to female chastity.
A long list of bulls was sacrificed, each of whom had pretentions to originality.
As a regiment bristles with bayonets, so bristled his speech with facts, which thrust through and through with the merciless truth of history the arrogance and pretentions of the South.
Worsted as the South clearly was in the contest with her rival for political supremacy, she refused nevertheless to modify her pretentions to political supremacy.
Jesus himself never made pretentionsto being more than a man.
Paine was too proud to be vain; his pride came up from nature; it was the pride of human worth, and opposed to that vanity of art which always makes pretentions to more worth than nature has conferred.
You had always a dash of ambition about you; and the chances are that you set your affections on one that you half despaired of obtaining, or had really no pretentions to look for.
They are always wearing dresses and pretentions they can't afford to have mussed.
Desmond, in his pretentions of loyalty, took credit for this act.
It is sheer nonsense to blazon such a word in pages having any pretentions to candour, for how seldom are we able conscientiously to affirm that our endeavours will be followed by a cure.
Where it once existed, a tough yellow substance alone remains, which is so destitute of all pretentions to the name of suet, that it cannot, even when thrown upon a fire, be made to blaze.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pretentions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
