Sentence examples for necessary pretext from inspiring English sources

With two other grandchildren already living in her home, and Susana's children coming over for food as well, perhaps, it could be argued, the strained relations between daughter-in-law and mother-in-law provided a necessary pretext for Doña Elisabeth to limit her obligations to provide for all of her grandchildren.

It is crystal clear that the policies of the EU and the USA are identical, are equally reactionary and anti-democratic and are equally dangerous to democratic rights and grass-roots freedoms, using as they do the 'fight against terrorism' as the necessary pretext to limit fundamental rights.

But at the same time, it does not mean that, if a person has views that differ from those of the current authorities, it is necessary to find any pretext to drag them to court and to jail".

Once the street-cleaning Zamboni comes through, everyone moves his car back, but you have to stay in it until 10 00 — with the pretext of being able to move it if necessary, otherwise De Blasio's willing executioner will slap you with a hefty ticket.

The pretext was that recording students' fingerprints was a necessary means of keeping track of stuff like student registration, direct debit lunch payments and how many library books pupils were hoarding under their beds.

I would agree that President Bush pushed some buttons by emphasizing certain matters as the pretext for war, but while Mr. Krugman sees this as dishonest, I see it simply as necessary given the circumstances.

Naureen Shah, director of Amnesty International USA's security and human rights programme, acknowledged the need for governments to assess their approach in the aftermath of major attacks but said: "What we don't want to see is government using the Paris attacks as a pretext for extending surveillance authorities or pushing back against reforms that even the government acknowledged as necessary".

Under the pretext of illegal immigration they're basically creating police state and driving people out by any means necessary".

September 11th was a pretext.

But decommissioning is a pretext.

A pretext to detain a foreign national?