Sentence examples for good pretext from inspiring English sources

Green technology, in particular, is proving a good pretext for handouts.

It's also a good pretext for staying in Ohio, her comfort zone, rather than relocating to England, where her fiancé has been offered a visiting professorship at Oxford.

It's a good pretext to visit the interview he granted to Die Zeit last month, on the occasion of the German release of "Whatever Works".

Of course, neither city can claim great originality in holding such a show at this, well, time, but each has a good pretext.

The refusal of King John II Casimir Vasa, the successor and brother of Władysław IV, to give up his claims to the Swedish crown offered a good pretext for resuming hostilities with the Commonwealth.

"Without the lobotomy," Mr Cheney told the American Academy of Neurology, "it might have proved difficult to persuade the president to start wars all around the world without any good pretext.

In both cases, these threats were fictional, but they made good pretexts for starting wars of conquest.

Often, this argument is just a pretext.

But that bit of gruesomeness is just a pretext.

But that is just a pretext.

Any excuse to reissue old blues, country and ragtime songs is a good one, and the pretext for this collection of Victor Talking Machine Company recordings from the 1920's to the 1950's is that it's a chance to hear original or early versions of songs that folkies and rockers would later pick up, like "Statesboro Blues" or "Walk Right In".