Sentence examples for * pretext from inspiring English sources

But decommissioning is a pretext.

September 11th was a pretext.

Security is a pretext".

A pretext to detain a foreign national?

Often, this argument is just a pretext.

They just killed them without any pretext".

"On the slightest pretext, they execute people".

This seems a false pretext.

California's justification is no pretext.

"They don't need a pretext," he said.

The taboo was a pretext for extortion.