Sentence examples for by pretext from inspiring English sources

The investigator is accused of getting the calling information by pretext, by pretending to be someone else.

In the case of the Cheonan boat incident, China could abstain from condemning Pyongyang by pretexting that proofs of the North Korean aggression were needed.

By concentrating pretext policing in the areas where gun crime was highest, Operation Ceasefire created unwarranted disparities in drug enforcement.

Her reasonable defence, that as a prisoner she was in no position to fend off uninvited visitors, was brushed aside by the court.The pretext provided by the hapless visitor, John Yettaw, a 54-year-old Mormon, may have been fortuitous.

And it's possible that the packed audience was in fact entertained by the dance, which is given its pretext by a barely-there story: Two tribes remaining on a parched Earth after some sort of catastrophe are saved by the arrival of a pure soul who reconciles them and brings rain.

For example, number 2 states in an imperfect translation: "Don't try to hide the facts by making pretexts this and that.

The first visit is free, so what's there to lose?" To help keep an eye on her mother across the country, one woman enlisted local friends who stopped by on pretexts.

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

This altered landscape is being used as a pretext by some donors for gradual reductions in aid.

But the failed attempt to claim independence was used as a pretext by a northern military generals to seize power.

"It may be taken as a pretext by extremists to carry out more killings and persecutions," said a statement released by his office.