Sentence examples for a poor pretext from inspiring English sources

We are not fooled: This is a poor pretext to prevent her from participating in the upcoming elections.

A poor, poor performance.

But this conceit is, thankfully, only a conceit, a pretext to revel in the details.

Rousseff has denied any wrongdoing and denounced her impeachment as a right-wing conspiracy that has used an accounting technicality as a pretext to illegally remove a government that improved the lot of Brazil's poorer classes.

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.

Some analysts would leave it there and say that you don't need to get into the nature of conservative ideology; that ideology is merely a pretext for taking from the poor and giving to the rich.

Kosovo was a pretext, not a central factor, he says.

Mr Yunus says this is just a pretext for a power grab.

Palestinians retort that these security concerns are a pretext for a land grab (see article).

Diefenbaker sought a pretext for a new election.