Sentence examples similar to evident pretexts for from inspiring English sources

He could have constructed earlier pretexts for invasion.

They are pretexts for the authentic errand of being outside.

The Armenians' role in the disaster became one of the pretexts for the genocide.

This was one of the pretexts for Kristallnacht, which erupted two days later.

The Western powers availed themselves of pretexts for intervention, thus furthering their own expansionist policies.

"We need to take away any pretexts" for U.S. threats.

The stories feel arbitrarily chosen, mere pretexts for the Friedkin treatment.

Searches were sometimes used as pretexts for unwanted touching or penetration of private parts.

The taboo was a pretext for extortion.

It was the pretext for courtship.

Could there be a better pretext for a disaster movie?