Sentence examples for any pretext from inspiring English sources

They just killed them without any pretext".

The Russians were itching for war on any pretext.

He would chew her out, profanely, at almost any pretext.

Famous architects drop by on any pretext; none, though, is more famous than Niemeyer himself.

… Above all, guard them against the virtual restoration of slavery in any form, under any pretext, and then let them take care of themselves".

"Nobody can be given a license to kill on any pretext," the judge was quoted as saying after the end of the trial.

A colossal war-bond party (featuring Benny Goodman and his band) is the pretext for some musical extravaganzas, but Berkeley doesn't need any pretexts — the movie opens cold with one of his most extravagant inventions, a singing face on a black screen that veers toward abstraction before revealing docks, a ship, its cargo — and Miranda.

"We... will not under any guise or pretext give the 'green light' to anyone to implement this third bailout," he told the real.gr news website on Wednesday, saying the deal would perpetuate the destructive policies of "relentless austerity and degrading servitude".

The US State Department said the LRA's top commanders had used "any and every pretext to rest, regroup and rearm, ultimately returning to kidnapping, killing, displacing and otherwise abusing civilian populations".

"Without the lobotomy," Mr Cheney told the American Academy of Neurology, "it might have proved difficult to persuade the president to start wars all around the world without any good pretext.

If you are alone for long enough, the "habitually silent partner" begins to speak, "without being addressed and without any visible pretext".