Sentence examples for a pretext to from inspiring English sources

A pretext to detain a foreign national?

But this isn't a pretext to accuse him of pimping".

Chinese police like to use accusations of economic crimes as a pretext to lock up dissidents.

"This may be used, may be manipulated, used as a pretext to do something," he said.

He added, "America just wants a pretext to intervene in Syrian affairs after the revolution".

Ayatollah Khamenei said the protest was nothing more than a pretext to disturb the peace.

Ultimately, Panahi finds a pretext to throw the elderly women out of his cab.

The attempt to regulate online content is clearly a pretext to controlling the runaway online market.

Either way, Turkey may well use its men's safety as a pretext to intervene in Syria.

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it".

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