Sentence examples similar to artificial pretext from inspiring English sources

He questioned the motivations of the US: "I think for the US certainly the concern about these artificial islands is really just a kind of pretext to draw what one might call a red line around China's expanding regional power and influence".

In 2001, Fidel Castro criticized that covenant, saying it "could serve as a weapon and a pretext for imperialism to try to divide and fracture the workers, create artificial unions, and decrease their political and social power and influence".

September 11th was a pretext.

But decommissioning is a pretext.

Security is a pretext".

Artificial Intelligence"?

A pretext to detain a foreign national?

Artificial growth?

They just killed them without any pretext".

"On the slightest pretext, they execute people".

Often, this argument is just a pretext.