Sentence examples for a pretext for planning from inspiring English sources
Other institutions and galleries are using the fair as a pretext for planning their own events.
The Israelis say the Palestinians used Mr. Sharon's trip as a pretext for a planned uprising.
A drop-in on Raymond, though it held a certain lunatic appeal, was a pretext for a larger plan: to make the great American pilgrimage on Kerouac's "holy road".
Then again, the U.S. investigation may have simply handed Beijing a pretext for doing something it planned all along.
The plaintiffs had argued that such benefits were merely a pretext for the real goal of plan: to enrich the developer, Bruce Ratner.
The weeklong maneuvers have caused alarm in neighboring countries, with Poland and Ukraine warning they could be a pretext for an invasion, and Lithuania announcing plans to fence its border.
Others insist he is executing a dark master plan, provoking Palestinian violence to build a pretext for occupying the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
It was alleged that the rooftop shootings that saw scores of civilians, opposition protesters, police and medics shot were planned by the Kremlin, intent on sowing mayhem as a pretext for military incursion.
Throughout this conference season, Bagehot has heard Liberal Democrats in Birmingham and Labour types in Liverpool warning, in apocalyptic tones, about the Tories and their wicked plan to use the economic crisis as a pretext for slashing back the state.
Also on Monday, Ukrainian Deputy Interior Minister Mykola Velychkovych charged that Russian forces planned to kill several Ukrainian soldiers in Crimea on Monday night to provide a pretext for the Russian military incursion.
