Sentence examples for his pretext from inspiring English sources

That's his pretext for socking it to Wisconsin's public unions.

Flowers were his pretext for decorative arrangements of color, which, like many Symbolists, he likened to musical harmonies occasioning flights of reverie and ambiguous, indeterminate ideas.

He was writing a newspaper article about her coming made-for-television movie -- at least that was his pretext.

I assumed that "unable to run" referred to the auto-accident injury that had been his pretext for not running the Cowtown Marathon.

His pretext was a quarrel with the governor of Acre, but deeper considerations were involved, particularly the growing strength of the sultan, which might threaten his own autonomy.

His pretext for entering buildings and inducing conversation was that he was looking at lobbies: "This is a spectacular mailroom!" "Here is a lobby designed not to spend time in".

Instead of being forgiven, like Polk and McKinley, for his phony pretext for war (WMD and al-Qaeda operatives in Baghdad), he stands to be lambasted by future scholars.

Charlie flicks through one by Richard Gillian and reels off his own pretext.

By making his presence a pretext for picking up political activists, China's leaders demonstrated indifference to his efforts on their behalf.

Recently I read about a case in Cameroon of a father who called his daughter into his room under the pretext of wanting her to pick up his dirty clothes for washing, and then he raped her.

Whatever the pretext, his removal amounts to a blunt usurpation of power.