Sentence examples for find pretexts from inspiring English sources

No hard feelings eh, Andy? ✒So how many times can the Sun find pretexts for mentioning James Cameron's movie Avatar in its news pages?

"They say, 'We are not receiving complaints,' or 'The complaints that we are seeing are not well formed.' They find pretexts not to prosecute".

Mr. Bush's first attorney general, John Ashcroft, directed the government to assume that documents should not be released and to find pretexts to keep them secret.

I am a man who loves women, so it might seem easy for me to find pretexts to write about them.

One is that there is no other subject in which malicious people can so readily find pretexts for vilifying me; and the other is that I believe only sovereigns, or those authorized by them, have the right to concern themselves with regulating the morals of other people" (AT V 86 7/CSMK 326).

Finding pretexts to take them to the attractive vet, Dr Clare, Jonathan is worried that living in an asphalt jungle is making the dogs despondent, although she clearly suspects he is prone to what psychiatrists call projection.

"If only we could find a pretext, though a pretext can always be found," they sing.When the curtain stayed down for several minutes after the third act, at the point when Stalin had walked out, one began to wonder whether the show had perhaps been banned again.

"I am sure that the Assad regime will lie and find many pretexts to attack us," he said.

The U.S. will ultimately accept a nuclear Iran, and will find another pretext in order to confront it.

The West, insists Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, is exaggerating the humanitarian crisis to find a pretext for invasion.

She had finished her tea, Tolstoy writes, "and clearly wished to find a pretext for getting angry after eating".