Sentence examples for consider the pretext from inspiring English sources

Events surrounding the site provided what Palestinians consider the provocation and Israelis consider the pretext for the Palestinians' uprising, and many fear a backlash throughout the Muslim world.

That visit, and the riots that ensued, provided what Palestinians consider the provocation and Israelis consider the pretext for the Palestinians' uprising, the Aksa Intifada.

I also consider the New York authorities' tactic of mass arrests just a pretext for crushing dissent and silencing antiwar voices during convention week.

Consider the difference between Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, who are taught to "fail early and often," and large corporations that leech off governments and demand bailouts when they're in trouble on the pretext that they are too big to fail.

The party largely considers the accusations a pretext for what it has described as a witch hunt against government opponents.

Eric Schwartz, the president of Refugees International who was an assistant secretary of state for the refugees bureau, also considers the proposed consolidation a pretext for sizable cuts.

At least eight of those cases involved pretextual car stops, when law enforcement stops someone considered "suspicious" under the pretext of a traffic violation.

The aircraft had met all Swiss Air Force requirements for an STOL attack fighter capable of carrying heavy loads, and the crash was widely considered a pretext for the Swiss parliament to reverse itself.

The chief of the General Intelligence Service of the Palestinian Authority, Gen. Tawfiq Tirawi, said in a statement that the Israeli reports should not be considered a "pretext" for suspending the Israeli-Palestinian talks.

In the years since WikiLeaks gained prominence, in 2010, by posting secret U.S. government documents, its founder, Julian Assange, had taken refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London to avoid a Swedish rape investigation that he considers a pretext for an American effort to extradite him.

The rockets fired from here by Hamas have, in a sense, wound up doing far more damage in Beit Hanun than in Israel, by giving Israel what many Palestinian considered a pretext to invade.