Sentence examples for formal pretext for 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.

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 taboo was a pretext for extortion.

It was the pretext for courtship.

Could there be a better pretext for a disaster movie?

This later became a pretext for defending "Russia's citizens".

Any provocation could easily become a pretext for renewed conflict.