pretender

No pretendieron que fuera otra cosa que lo que era.	They didn't pretend it was anything but what it was.
Los quiero por lo que pretendieron ser.	I love them for what they were meant to be.
Tuvieron la oportunidad de gobernar el mundo y pretendieron gobernarlo.	They had the chance to rule the World and they pretended to rule it.
Los adora por lo que pretendieron ser.	You love what they were meant to be.
E incluso pretendieron que cambiara su ideología.	They even tried to change her ideology.
Sus padres, atisbando las dificultades, pretendieron disuadirlo. Todo fue inútil.	His parents, foreseeing the difficulties ahead, tried to dissuade him, but all in vain.
No intentaron escapar, pero no pretendieron ser santificados.	They did not try to escape, but they did not expect sainthood.
¡Pues toma! Lo que pretendieron ser.	Well, here's what they were meant to be!
Hoy pretendieron un show más.	Today they wanted one more show.
No fueron los pensadores Presocráti- cos quienes primero pretendieron explicar los orígenes; fue Hesíodo.	It was not the Presocratic thinkers who first purported to explain origins, it was Hesiod.
Los Pensamientos no son, ni pretendieron nunca ser, en la mente de Pascal, aforismos.	The Penseés are not, nor in Pascal's mind were they ever intended to be, aphorisms.
Nunca pretendieron hacerme daño.	They never intended to harm me.
Los que pretendieron haber vencido en nombre de una teología pronto fueron a la deriva.	The people who claimed to have won in the name of a particular theology soon went adrift.
Los sobrevivientes pretendieron vengarse y atacaron el campamento donde la Funai se había instalado recientemente.	The survivors planned to take revenge, and attacked the camp where the Funai had recently become established.
Cambió -eso sí- el mundo en que esos objetivos pretendieron ser puestos en practica.	What did change was the world in which they were to be put into practice.
No solo pretendieron ser libre cuando en realidad todavía estaban bajo el dominio del faraón.	They did not just claim to be free while in fact they were still under the dominion of Pharaoh.
El director de la película, respondía a las críticas diciendo que nunca pretendieron grabar un documental.	The director of the film, He responded to the criticism saying that they never sought to record a documentary.
Algunos pretendieron la riqueza ya que confería poder; otros se afanaron por la propiedad puesto que suponía comodidad.	Some sought wealth because it conferred power; others toiled for property because it meant ease.
Varios hoteles pretendieron adelantar mega construcciones en las costas de este país con prácticas que podrían afectar los corales.	Several hotels tried to advance mega construction on the coasts of this country with practices that could affect corals.
El sentido común te dirá que los Discípulos no robaron Su cuerpo y pretendieron que Él había resucitado.	Common sense will tell you that the Disciples did not steal His body and pretend He was resurrected.