Sentence examples for false pretext from inspiring English sources

This seems a false pretext.

It is the Palestinian issue that currently provides a false pretext for belligerency.

At worst, it may be that, as Ms Short claims, he took Britain to war on a false pretext.

Just as Langdon realizes he has been lured to Washington under a false pretext, a shriek arises from the Rotunda.

The American public fell for a false pretext in 2003 — and it cannot afford to do so again.

After 9/11, the US initiated costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with Iraq invaded on the false pretext that it was developing weapons of mass destruction.

Based on false pretexts, we were drawn into a misdirected war that has exacted enormous costs in lives and money.

We are painfully reminded of the false pretexts used to justify the invasion of Iraq more than three years ago.

The police can apparently drag victims through the courts under false pretexts, as long as they fail to stitch them up effectively.

Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian Foreign Ministry's envoy on human rights and legal matters, said the legal action was part of a pattern of United States law enforcement agencies' getting Russians detained in third countries on what he said were false pretexts.

The west faces the probable defeat of its efforts to stabilise Afghanistan, a worthy objective, because of the likely failure of its campaign in Iraq, which began on false pretexts.