But it didn't take a genius to recognize that a prosecutor could come up with any number of pretexts for camouflaging the selection of jurors on the basis of race.
The authors, Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister who has been jailed a number of times on various pretexts, and Leonid Martynyuk, a member of the Solidarity movement, present enlarged photographs of the Russian leader's wrist during meetings and public appearances, revealing a variety of expensive watches, 11 in all, worth $687,000 at retail — about six times Mr. Putin's annual salary.
Unfortunately, religious convictions or an aversion to the violence which the army may stand for are used as a pretext by a number of people to avoid military service and while away their days in the civil service at the state's expense, even though some of them have no hesitation in using violence if it serves their ideological purpose.
We use pretext interviews on a number of investigations to extract information and/or make covert purchases of stolen property, in a sense, all undercover operations.
Still, a number of Security Council members remain concerned that Washington was too eager to find a pretext to go to war.
Using a rebellion in Palestine as a pretext, he purchased a large number of slaves to increase the strength of his army, which formed the basis of his personal authority.
A small number of practitioners argued that a discourse emphasizing public safety was being disingenuously bandied about as a political pretext for increased regulatory control over low-risk clinical activities, for instance: One regulates activities that are dangerous.
The Soviets, using a formal pretext, demanded to allow an unspecified number of Soviet soldiers to enter the Lithuanian territory and to form a new pro-Soviet government (later known as the "People's Government").
Under various pretexts, they bought me an exceptional number of toys and games in the months following that Christmas, trying to distract me from what they saw as a traumatic obsession with the toy cement mixer and its "magic".
Between 27 October and 1 November 1996, under the pretext of repatriating them to Rwanda, units of the [Rwandan, Burundian and Zairian rebel forces] led an unknown number of additional refugees into the Rushima ravine and executed them".
