pose as someone

Examples of posing

posing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Posing the social trade-off in this manner might greatly facilitate the public debate on the project.
These enhancements might be highly beneficial without posing any significant risks.
I argue that compliance is a function of government's ability to develop appropriate institutions capable of posing a permanent credible threat.
In posing this question, we begin the transition from questions of social support and developmental psychopathology to issues of social policy.
The problems associated with posing hypothetical questions to low-income, perhaps illiterate respondents were assumed to be so overwhelming that one should not even try.
Increasing worldwide mobility due to political and economic reasons is however posing new challenges for a monolingual approach to language acquisition and language disorders.
While these ambiguities should be resolved over time, for now they are perceived as posing a risk to some organic farmers.
But the creation of this "immense city" has not been achieved without a price, or without posing the question, who pays?
Instead, the action is elsewhere : amending government bills, posing questions to government, providing constituent services, and soliciting development resources for communities.
This strategy could identify pens of cattle posing a higher risk to food safety.
Consequently, different forms of problematic family systems may emerge, posing risk for the developing child.
By 1984, the practice of using nets with meshes smaller than the legal size had become pervasive, posing a serious threat to the resource sustainability.
This satirical work, posing as a piece of historical sociology written in 2034, analyses the undemocratic implications of meritocracy.
Why, then, was this country not listed under countries certified as posing no threat to turtles?
In sacred texts from all over the world, divine encounters are routinely described as posing challenges to people's current beliefs.
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