Sentence examples for looking for pretexts from inspiring English sources

I would be vain to say that I stimulated the rise of Islamic radicalism, but I was the pretext that they found, given that they were looking for pretexts".

All his life, in the words of his most devoted critic, the eloquent David Sylvester, Bacon was "an old-fashioned militant atheist who always seemed to be looking for pretexts to issue a reminder that God was dead and to bang a few nails into his coffin".

While the administration also did contingency planning for dealing with any threat that Iraq might pose, the officials said, it was not looking for pretexts to mount a military campaign, as Mr. O'Neill suggested in the book, which was written with his cooperation and tracks the two years he spent as treasury secretary before being dismissed.

"Don't let's look for pretexts to stop talking," the newly gung-ho Mr Netanyahu, past master of pretexts, ardently urged.

Are they looking for a pretext so they could justify war against Iraq?

"They are just looking for a pretext to continue their siege and attacks," he said.

Leaders in China and the United States were looking for a pretext for a détente, and suddenly, they had it.

In retrospect, some of Mr. McCain's critics now accuse him of looking for a pretext to justify the war.

Many officials say they believe that Mr. Klaus is looking for a pretext to prevent signing the Lisbon Treaty.

It had been looking for a pretext to return to the island it had ruled for 300 years before the British took over.

"Arafat was looking for a pretext for a confrontation that could be called the last battle before an agreement," he said.