Sentence examples for multiple pretexts from inspiring English sources
The war in Iraq had multiple pretexts, both idealistic and pragmatic: containing an ostensible threat, rescuing Iraqis from a monster, sowing seeds of freedom in an oppressed region.
Both pretexts are spurious.
RadarOnline needs no pretexts.
We will have no pretexts".
"Multiple, multiple precedents".
One of Mr Sannikov's aides, Dmitry Bondarenko, has already received two years.The actual "disorder" seems to be the work of Mr Lukashenka's multiple security services, who staged a provocation on election night, smashing a few windows in a government building and using it as a pretext for arrests.
He could have constructed earlier pretexts for invasion.
On the pretext that French singers in operas would have performed in Haiti, there was good work from David Rodriquez and Ms. Copeland as Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice and in a tour de force solo by Ms. Turocy, assuming multiple personalities in "Les Caractères de la Danse".
As pretexts so often do, this one quickly wore thin.
Evidently, painters enjoyed finding such pretexts.
