The treaty, which the US Government advanced as a pretext to end hostilities between the Dakota and their neighbors, required all American Indian tribes and bands in and around Wisconsin and Iowa to delineate where their territories began and ended.
Frank Coleman, communications director of the United States Chamber of Commerce, criticized the women's survey, saying it was a pretext to advance labor's political agenda.
The plot, several times changing our perspective on the murder, works very well as a thriller, but it is essentially a pretext for advancing the skeptical worldview embodied by the style.
These American technological advances rattle Russia and China, which cite them as a pretext to develop their own new weapons.
The situation between Küchlüg and the Khwārezm-Shah sultan afforded scope as well as a pretext for the Mongols' westward advance, if only to restore the flow of trade.
On September 5th Van Jones, a White House adviser on green jobs, was forced to resign after it emerged that he had once signed a petition accusing the Bush administration of knowing in advance about September 11th 2001 but doing nothing in order to furnish a pretext for a war.
A year later, Iraq is no longer a pretext or an abstraction.
She spoke more than a week after a proposed Security Council compromise resolution, aimed at ending the violence and starting reconciliation talks in a plan advanced by the Arab League, collapsed with a veto by Russia and China, which feared it was a pretext to depose President Bashar al-Assad and possibly invite outside military intervention, as happened in Libya last year.
Maximilian, using his journey to Rome for the Imperial coronation as a pretext, entered Venetian territory with a large army in February 1508 and advanced on Vicenza, but was defeated by a Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano.
September 11th was a pretext.
This is obviously a pretext.
