Sentence examples for is one pretext from inspiring English sources
The Egyptian military has some reason to fear that its unsettled protodemocracy might be hijacked by Islamic extremists, which is one pretext for restoring a media-managing Information Ministry that was abolished after the fall of Hosni Mubarak.
Gagging the media on the pretext of the public interest is one way to ensure the public never learns the answer.
Concern for the unity of Yemen is one thing, and scaremongering against reform under the pretext of averting division is another.
This was one of the pretexts for Kristallnacht, which erupted two days later.
This is on the pretext of health and safety.
The only question was on what pretext.
They seized th offensive by striking Stutz from the trading list, on one pretext or another.
One pretext for the pairing of the Hudson and the Yangtze was Henry Hudson's failed 1609 quest to reach China by traveling up river through North America.
A colossal war-bond party (featuring Benny Goodman and his band) is the pretext for some musical extravaganzas, but Berkeley doesn't need any pretexts — the movie opens cold with one of his most extravagant inventions, a singing face on a black screen that veers toward abstraction before revealing docks, a ship, its cargo — and Miranda.
"Masurca Fogo" was created for Expo '98 in Lisbon, and one senses that Lisbon is merely a pretext.
