Sentence examples for for pretexts from inspiring English sources

"Don't let's look for pretexts to stop talking," the newly gung-ho Mr Netanyahu, past master of pretexts, ardently urged.

I would be vain to say that I stimulated the rise of Islamic radicalism, but I was the pretext that they found, given that they were looking for pretexts".

All his life, in the words of his most devoted critic, the eloquent David Sylvester, Bacon was "an old-fashioned militant atheist who always seemed to be looking for pretexts to issue a reminder that God was dead and to bang a few nails into his coffin".

While the administration also did contingency planning for dealing with any threat that Iraq might pose, the officials said, it was not looking for pretexts to mount a military campaign, as Mr. O'Neill suggested in the book, which was written with his cooperation and tracks the two years he spent as treasury secretary before being dismissed.

The argument for pretext stops is that they allow police to protect communities by being proactive instead of reactive.

Future COG protocols will include up-front resection only for PRETEXT I and easy PRETEXT II tumors.

Leaders in China and the United States were looking for a pretext for a détente, and suddenly, they had it.

"Arafat was looking for a pretext for a confrontation that could be called the last battle before an agreement," he said.

The question is, does the other side want to get to the same conclusion or are they looking for a pretext for aggression?

In Iraq, Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz said Mr. Rumsfeld's remarks showed that Washington was looking for a pretext for "a criminal attack" on Iraq.

When Hitler asked for a pretext for the invasion of Poland in 1939, Himmler, Heydrich, and Heinrich Müller masterminded a false flag plan code-named Operation Himmler.