Sentence examples for The pretext from inspiring English sources

"The pretext was that I was a card-carrying communist.

(The pretext for the conflict is miners' need for work).

The pretext may be anodyne: a health and safety check, a tax audit.

The pretext was that it had issued an offensive poll question about the siege of Leningrad.

The pretext was piety: to remove a revered Christian relic from Muslim hands.

"The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of the Zionist regime (Israel) is false..

The pretext, phony as ever, was Mr Lee's alleged disrespect when Kim Jong-il died.

The pretext for forcing Jones out was pathetic.

The pretext of exercises allowed the Egyptians to conceal their preparations.

The pretext would be Russia's choosing Ethiopia's side in a war Somalia clearly launched against Ethiopia.

The pretext for the dinner was that Will had been martyred to privileged liberal censoriousness.