5 sentences with 'pretensions'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pretensions and other words derived from it.
• « It was, despite its continued pretensions to empire, in reality a kingdom after territorial losses, populated almost entirely by Greek-speaking "Romans" rather than by those Romans, as well as by its former Syrian, Jewish, African, Italian and Spanish subjects. »
• « Over the centuries the papacy struggled, and often failed, to assert its control over the Church as an institution and to keep the pretensions of kings in check. »
• « With the exception of the constitutional monarchy and the strong parliament of Britain, the monarchs of the major states of Europe managed in the eighteenth century to control governments that were at least "absolutist" in their pretensions, although the nobility and local assemblies had much real power almost everywhere. »
• « It also directly inspired a growing sense of nationalism, not least because the Napoleonic Empire was so distinctly French despite its pretensions to universalism. »
• « Many novels written in the early 20th century criticised the hypocrisy of social elites and their pretensions to righteousness. »