Suggestions that it be forsaken sounded to many like a pretext for getting rid of the city's black majority.
Instead, with computers as a flimsy pretext, many seemed to take pleasure in frightening themselves to death over a coming calamity.
And it has been the cause, or the pretext, for many of the hard-line policies of the Putin presidency.Russia's gathering suspicion towards the West can be traced in part to the autumn of 2004, and Beslan.
The rockets fired from here by Hamas have, in a sense, wound up doing far more damage in Beit Hanun than in Israel, by giving Israel what many Palestinian considered a pretext to invade.
Hitler used the pretext that many ethnic Germans living in those border areas were suffering abuse from Czechs.
However, this part of Section 2 was not enforced and so Southern states continued to use pretexts to prevent many blacks from voting until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
"In the past, Syria has killed many people here under the pretext of fighting terrorism," said Mr. Daqmaq, the cleric.
In May, he announced a national commission to investigate voter fraud, which many have criticized as a pretext for implementing more restrictive voting restrictions.
Evidence of pretext may take many forms including evidence that the employee "was treated differently from other similarly-situated employees who violated work rules of comparable seriousness".
Incidentally, the reason why I never buy into the idea that Peggy is about to take over the agency, which many predict at the slightest pretext, is that she is 26 and this is 1965.
