Sentence examples similar to explore the pretext for from inspiring English sources

It was the pretext for courtship.

"The books are not a pretext for scandal; the scandal was the pretext for the books," he said.

(The pretext for the conflict is miners' need for work).

Plans to display the restored sculpture supplied the pretext for a larger show.

Germany used the event as the pretext for its invasion of Poland.

In 1975, fighting between different East Timorese groups was the pretext for invasion.

But Big Bang was the pretext for Barclays to become a truly global business.

"My Paris gallery was just the pretext for me to go out and find paintings.

The latest stand-off must not provide the pretext for an indefinite impasse.

A renovation of the rebuilt cathedral has supplied the pretext for sending its art to the Met.

No weapons of mass destruction, the existence of which were used as the pretext for war, were found in Iraq.