Sentence examples for chief pretext for from inspiring English sources

My first tweet–"US considers surgical strike on UK over sale of chemical weapons to Syria, but won't seek regime change in London"–was just a straight reaction to the hypocrisy around weapons and punitive strikes (the question of who has a right to use which weapons was the chief pretext for the Iraq war).

When Hitler and his army chiefs asked for a pretext for the invasion of Poland in 1939, Himmler, Heydrich, and Heinrich Müller masterminded and carried out a false flag project code-named Operation Himmler.

Environmental activist David Doniger said those writing the rule book for the campaign against global warming appear intent on removing every possible pretext for the U.S. chief delegate, Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky, to block it.

The K.G.B. chief, Vladimir A. Kryuchkov, charged that economic contacts were often a pretext for compiling strategic information about Soviet industry and resources, for cheating unwitting Soviet partners, and for imposing an alien capitalist outlook.

Veterans Affairs Secretary ­David J. Shulkin's chief of staff doctored an email and made false statements to create a pretext for taxpayers to cover expenses for the secretary's wife on a 10-day trip to Europe last summer, the agency's inspector general has found.

But the eventual pretext for calling the special session was Mr Wahid's appointment, on Friday, of a new chief of police.

The taboo was a pretext for extortion.

It was the pretext for courtship.

Could there be a better pretext for a disaster movie?

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

Any provocation could easily become a pretext for renewed conflict.