Sentence examples similar to making a pretext of from inspiring English sources

The patron was supposed to be learning Italian from [Girard]; this made a pretext for giving him, on their parting at Malta in 1811 ... a considerable sum of money".

Others take tour buses from the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Iraq, on the pretext of making a pilgrimage to an important Shiite shrine in Damascus that for months has been protected by armed Iraqis.

Green films in Boulder, Colorado, where Ramsey was killed, on Christmas night in 1996, on the pretext of making a dramatization of the story, and collects actors who live in the area.

Having a pretext of regular family life made their accommodation safer from suspicion.

No longer will society require us to schlep from place to place under the pretext of making a meaningful contribution to the evolution of our species.

This show makes no pretext of being comprehensive.

Moreno even admitted making a bogus 911 call about a sleeping vagrant to provide a pretext for one of the visits.

The President was also right to recognize that Obamacare's technical problems made "a lot of supporters nervous"; Republicans would use those kinks as a pretext to "go after it even harder," and they might even gloat.

It has also accused the South of making unreasonable demands as a pretext to terminating the Kaesong project.

The pretext for the OCE report was that Stark made an electronic filing of a tax application, with one mistake, in February 2009.

The elders of Israel made the pair's misconduct a pretext for demanding a king (I Samuel 8 4).