Sentence examples for An pretext from inspiring English sources
MY MORNING JACKET Without even an anniversary as an pretext, My Morning Jacket, the Kentucky band with the pealing three-guitar arrangements and the keening lead vocals of Jim James, is to perform all five of its studio albums in their entirety, one per concert: "The Tennessee Fire" on Oct. 18, "At Dawn" Oct. 19, "It Still Moves" Oct. 21, "Z" Oct. 22 and "Evil Urges" Oct. 23.
A top Russian diplomat warned in a visit to Lebanon this weekend that the charges should not be used as an "pretext" for an Iraq-style intervention in Syria, Moscow's long-time ally.
A year later, Iraq is no longer a pretext or an abstraction.
Seropositivity is not a pretext for an ongoing disease but a measure of exposure.
As a pretext to the discussion, Section 3.1 provides an overview of BPM (business process management).
An editorial in the Communist Party newspaper charged that some American officials were seeking a pretext to start a Korean war and threatened that "not a single soldier" would survive "if the U.S. imperialists unleash a new war".
September 11th was a pretext.
An attempt to assassinate Nasser by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in October 1954 was used as a pretext to crush that organization.
But decommissioning is a pretext.
Often, this argument is just a pretext.
