Sentence examples for a clear pretext from inspiring English sources

Only the remilitarization of the Rhineland offered a clear pretext for British and French intervention, and we now know that the token German force in the Rhineland had been ordered to retreat if such intervention occurred.

So saboteurs like Safire had a clear challenge: "prove" that Carter was just another impure politician, if even on the shakiest of pretexts.

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The fuzzy-headed animals are just a means to an end, an excuse and a pretext to tramp through a pristine rain forest where the air is cool, the sun warm and the rivers Evian-clear.

Opposition leaders feared that the government might instigate violence as a pretext to clear the demonstrators.

Mr. Yan, the writer, wants to know the truth about the road project, which he believes is a pretext to clear valuable land.

Conservationists claim the sorghum cropping on Olive Vale is a pretext for clearing land for grazing, which the LNP in government said its laws would not allow.

The piece starts with a little throat-clearing, some fumbling for a pretext: Hey, Valentine's Day is coming.

It's pretty clear the complaints about flags are a bullshit pretext for a political beef.

But this violent confrontation is merely a pretext, as it is clear that the president had no responsibility for what happened.

A year later, Iraq is no longer a pretext or an abstraction.