Sentence examples for any pretext for from inspiring English sources

At this point, the Democratic strategy is to keep pressing for a deal with Mr. Kyl and to respond to every Republican question in an effort to minimize any pretext for opposition.

It won't be an official declaration, but rather an understanding that Hamas will refrain from military actions for a year or more, so as not to give Israel any pretext for not proceeding with the peace process".If this were to be an outcome of Mr Arafat's current round of meetings to form a new government, it would appease many of his domestic critics.

Then, in 2010, it was again domestic politics and the activities of Congress that ultimately caused the Obama administration to reject a nuclear breakthrough brokered by Brazil and Turkey, which would have cut Iran's uranium stockpile in half and deprived it of any pretext for enriching uranium to higher levels.

The letter the D.M.V. sends out with the new plates says flatly that they must not be "partially covered by plate holders (Section 402 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law)." While this law is rarely enforced as long as the state and number are clearly legible, it can serve as a pretext for any traffic cop who has a mind to pull you over.

Macartney found d'Estaing's proposed articles "not merely unprecedented and humiliating, but so ensnaring and uncertain in their nature, extent, and aim that they might at any time supply a pretext for taking away the lives, together with the fortunes, of the capitulants".

Among the Bedouin almost any pretext suffices for dancing, although, since the mid-20th century, dancing has been practiced most often at weddings and similar festivities.

He said the Arabs needed to pressure the world to ensure that the proposed Israeli withdrawal from Gaza not be used as a pretext for limiting any withdrawal from the West Bank.

The implementation of a European technical framework, which patients and the industry have been awaiting for several years now, must not serve as a pretext for imposing any particular ideological point of view.

Any provocation could easily become a pretext for renewed conflict.

The taboo was a pretext for extortion.

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