Sentence examples for formal pretext from inspiring English sources

The formal pretext for the decision is that Dynasty is funded from Zimin's bank accounts abroad.

The formal pretext for the dance is complex, but Mr. Taylor coats the pill.

As a formal pretext for a dance, the idea of performers who keep moving while linked has definite possibilities.

This 50-year association was the formal pretext for the festive tribute to Mr. Robbins that City Ballet organized at its annual spring benefit on Wednesday night.

These documents should be recognized for what they are: government reliance on evidence that is valuable precisely because it has been drafted and approved by people other than Trump — and sometimes amounting to a formal pretext.

Ukraine will not be obliged to take on any economic obligations towards the EU, which denies Russia an obvious formal pretext to block trade with Ukraine, as it has done periodically, claiming the free-trade agreement would have a damaging impact on Russia.

Iraq could well fade as an issue between now and November 4th 2008 if, as seems increasingly likely, the administration uses the pretext of a formal review of Iraq policy due in mid-September to sketch out a plan for at least the beginning of a phased withdrawal.

But the Ukrainian government has accused the Kremlin-backed convoy of being a modern day Trojan horse that will serve as a pretext for a formal Russian invasion.

The pretext this week was the brace of formal campaign events Barack Obama was due to hold in Ohio and Virginia on May 5th.

Ranavalona died without ever having returned to Madagascar, after two formal requests in 1910 and 1912 were refused on the pretext of insufficient funds in the colonial coffers.

Notwithstanding this formal prohibition, the commentaries on the categories were crucial for subsequent theological discussions, and the thinnest of pretexts would sometimes occasion a digression into theological territory.