Sentence examples similar to a pretext for running from inspiring English sources

The United Auto Workers vigorously opposes it as mainly a pretext for removing work from its jurisdiction.

Russia, China and Cuba, the dissident votes, called the move a pretext for laying the groundwork for foreign intervention.

Mike runs through the Reagan era, arguing that the war on drugs was a pretext for police violence in general and, more specifically, "doing that surveillance on Mr. Michael Render".

As a result, Bush is now forced to run around the Arabian states along the Persian Gulf in an effort to build an anti-Iranian alliance and find a pretext for keeping a strategic presence in the region.

The taboo was a pretext for extortion.

This later became a pretext for defending "Russia's citizens".

Any provocation could easily become a pretext for renewed conflict.

Global recession should not be a pretext for global repression.

In the long run, he must also make political space in Rwanda for the Hutu rebel forces who maraud through eastern Congo and give General Nkunda a pretext for his depredations.

A Byzantine revolt in Thrace provided the Bulgarian tsar Kalojan with a pretext for invasion.

The project was a pretext for remaking Zimbabwe's political map.