Sentence examples for a pretext for going from inspiring English sources
Because the United States wanted to find a pretext for going to war with Iraq? he was asked.
During a debate in South Carolina, a state with strong military traditions, Trump declared that President George W Bush lied about Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction, as a pretext for going to war.
In the e-mail message, Mr. Norris described the movie as a "vicious and absurd documentary" that "posits that President Bush planned the demolition of the World Trade Center as a pretext for going to war against Iraq".
Shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11 , 2001 Clark said, he visited the Pentagon, where an old colleague, a three-star general, confided to him that the civilian authorities running the Pentagon DefenseSecretaryary Donald Rumsfeld and his team — planned to use the September 11th attacks as a pretext for going to war against Iraq.
When the USS Maine sank in Havana's harbour in February 1898 after a mysterious explosion, the United States had pretext for going to war, and the Spanish-American War ensued.
The reference, of course, is to those alleged 'weapons of mass destruction' that served as the pretext for going to war in Iraq.
As it becomes clear his sub and its crew are being used by their own government to create a pretext for war, Chaplin goes rogue, and takes the armed vessel to a tropical island as he brazenly attempts to de-escalate the global conflict.
There is still scrapping about how long Assad can remain, about the dangers of so many planes in the skies over Syria and about how far Isis is being used as a pretext for all involved to go after their particular enemy.
Russia, China and Cuba, the dissident votes, called the move a pretext for laying the groundwork for foreign intervention.
But, he added, giving a brokerage firm a pretext for refusing to answer reporters' questions "is a very dangerous road to go down".
