Sentence examples for The pretext behind from inspiring English sources

The pretext behind the regulation is the need to tamp down on speakeasies, but the license is notoriously difficult and expensive to obtain.

So long as modeling agencies hide behind the pretext that models are independent contractors rather than employees, models can't successfully unionize.

Will the Muslim Brotherhood adopt the same tactics Hosni Mubarak used for three decades to sustain absolute power, in this case hiding their intentions behind the pretext that "free elections equal full democracy"?

But finally, when he went down to Ostia to inspect the grain supply and she was left behind in Rome on the pretext of being ill, she got up a banquet of no little renown and carried on a most licentious revel.

Whoever was behind the terrorist bombs that were the pretext for starting it, the effects on the Kremlin's fortunes are indisputable.

In 2001, he left them behind when he fled the North on the pretext of taking a short trip to Japan to buy fish.

Again, the pretext was corruption.

It was the pretext for courtship.

The pretext of it all is, how can this happen?

I wish Wayne could go on "Rachel Maddow," whatever the pretext.

"The books are not a pretext for scandal; the scandal was the pretext for the books," he said.