pretender

to intend

Aikune pretendía ganar el duelo y sobrevivir intacto.	Aikune intended to win the duel and survive intact.
Quizá esto es lo que nuestro padre pretendía que fuéramos.	Maybe this is what our dad intended us to be.
Objetivo: debe indicar claramente lo que el autor pretendía realizar.	Objective: it should clearly state what the author intended to accomplish.
Estamos finalmente va a utilizar esto como se pretendía.	We're finally going to use this as it was intended.
Sospechaba que Akiko pretendía nominar a Aikune para Campeón Fénix.	She suspected if Akiko intended to nominate Aikune for Phoenix Champion.
Las cuestiones que el Tratado pretendía abordar no han desaparecido.	The issues that Treaty was intended to address have not disappeared.
No pretendía herirla, si eso es lo que pasó.	I didn't mean to hurt her, if that's what happened.
La investigación no pretendía probar o refutar nuestros delitos.	The investigation was not meant to prove or disprove our offenses.
Ese país se está convirtiendo en aquello que Blair pretendía evitar.	The country is turning into what Blair wanted to avoid.
Audiencia Lincoln pretendía que la audiencia fuera toda la nación.	Audience Lincoln intended that the audience was the whole nation.
Sin embargo, la memoria RAM pretendía re' el sacrificio de autoridad.	However, the RAM was intended re' the authority sacrifice.
Tu papá no pretendía ser tan severo, querida niña.	Your papa did not mean to be so harsh, darling girl.
Ella pretendía retirar todos sus ahorros del banco.	She intended to withdraw all her savings from the bank.
No es en absoluto lo que pretendía para tu fiesta.	Not at all what I intended for your party.
Solo porque estaba segura de que era lo que ella pretendía.	Only because I was sure that was what she intended.
El monumento más antiguo de Nápoles pretendía impresionar al pueblo.	The oldest monument in Naples was hoped to impress the people.
No se pretendía que fuese necesariamente una declaración de teología.	It was not necessarily intended to be a statement of theology.
Y yo pretendía darle un empujón en la dirección correcta.	And I meant to give him a push in the right direction.
Moses pretendía demolerlo para construir un lote de estacionamientos.	Moses sought to demolish it to build a parking lot.
Sin embargo, Obama pretendía conseguir esos mismos objetivos con métodos diferentes.	However, Obama wanted to pursue the same aims with different methods.