Sentence examples for creating a pretext from inspiring English sources

His office said Mr. Qandil left to avoid creating a "pretext" for violence.

Like many others, including Politkovskaya, Litvinenko had accused the Russian President of creating a pretext for the Second Chechen War in 1999 by blowing up buildings in Moscow and then blaming Chechen separatists for the attacks.

Another, Franco Rivera Daniel Sunjataa), will articulate his Internet-fueled belief that 9/11 was "an inside job," the result of "a massive neoconservative government conspiracy" that was designed to increase American power by creating a pretext for seizing control of the world's oil supplies — a view Mr. Sunjata himself happens to share.

But Chengdu's urban renewal campaigns, like those of many Chinese cities, have resulted in mass demolitions and relocations – and critics say these projects are more about local officials inflating economic statics, impressing Beijing to climb up the party ladder, and creating a pretext for transferring public funds into private hands.

Instead, they focus their attention on creating a pretext to allow not only the nations of the Arab world, but the world as a whole, to condemn Israel for acting in a way it must act to protect itself.

But if the ban is definitively struck down by the courts, it could even better serve the possible objective of creating a pretext for the Executive Branch to seize much greater power.

They are doing this to create a pretext for international interference".

It might even have created a pretext for the president to fire Mueller.

"Russia has been working hard to create a pretext for Russia to invade further," Kerry says.

They did not envision that this provision would create a pretext for throwing young black and Latino men in jail.

The super powers can create a pretext any day to claim that Iraq is not implementing resolution 1441.