'in the pretext' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about something that is being done or said in order to hide a true purpose or intention. For example, "The company held a charity event in the pretext of promoting their new product line, but their true aim was to attract the attention of wealthy investors."
This short-sighted business-first policy, cloaked in the pretext of reaching out to "moderates" in Iran, has a price paid in innocent human lives.
It has vast forest area although declining due to indiscriminate deforestation especially through the recent introduction of land deals in the pretext of large scale agricultural investments.
"When was the last time a blender needed an unsolicited purchase in the pretext of a certain upgrade?" For Beales, a retired mortgage banker, the move from Android to iOS was prompted by a "must have" feature: FaceTime, the popular video telephony application.
The levels of telomerase activity in the PRETEXT 2, 3, and 4 tumours were significantly higher than in the PRETEXT 1 tumours (P=0.025).
(Past participant, rural, male) "Government people keep us threatened that action may be taken against us in the pretext of some irregularity in PNDT".
Pharmacy academics also perceived that due to junior pharmacy students' limited clinical experience, definitions of 'Patient Safety'Errorror' and 'Incident' should be included in the pretext to the survey.
Allied never admitted any involvement in the pretexting of Mr. Greenberg or the stock analyst.
But on March 1st, the police moved in on the pretext that protesters were carrying firearms, which some observers say were planted.
A few days before the second round, the army – fearing an FIS takeover – stepped in under the pretext of safeguarding the national interest, cancelled the elections and forced Bendjedid to resign in January 1992.
This neighborhood first came under assault from Shiite militias, then from pro-Al Qaeda Iraqi Sunnis, who moved in on the pretext of protecting the Sunnis from the Shiites and then imposed a reign of Islamist terror on them.
While not being supposed to date, Bunny is surrounded by a swarm of boyfriends, including the pothead boy next door, whom she sneaks in under the pretext that he is giving her Italian lessons.
