Sentence examples for false pretexts from inspiring English sources

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.

In a telephone interview from London, where he arrived early today, Mr. Schori said the Zimbabwean government knew of his appointment in advance and was simply concocting "false pretexts" for his expulsion.

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.

Some academics may find themselves silenced, censured, or threatened by a less egregious but nonetheless career-breaking attack: being fired from their positions, in most cases under false pretexts such as budget cuts or unfounded claims of fraud or poor performance.

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 August war in the Caucasus was started by the Georgians under a false pretext on the night of Aug. 7. Civilians and Russian peacekeepers were attacked.