Sentence examples for offer a pretext for from inspiring English sources

He seems to be trying to provoke Mr. Djukanovic into overreacting, which could offer a pretext for a coup.

Many fear the militants' rise will offer a pretext for Assad and his allies to bomb the province in a manner similar to their violent reclamation of the city of Aleppo late last year.

The Americans' reasons for not wanting to go after this group now, Kurdish officials say, appear to include an unwillingness to offer Mr. Hussein a pretext for attacking the Kurds before a potential American invasion, and a reluctance to provoke nearby Iran.

Herodotus has a line in which he says, the Athenians offered the hubris of Pausanias as a pretext for taking over the leadership of the Greeks out there.

Scholars question whether the justifications offered for the law are real or a pretext for suppressing troubling speech.

In response, a plaintiff can show by preponderance of the evidence that the legitimate reasons offered by the defendant were not its true reason, but were a pretext for discrimination.

Or is it merely because the Nazis offer an "objective" pretext for dismissal to those who subjectively disapprove of Orff's music for other reasons: reasons having to do, could it be, with prudery?

You can't exempt nice Christians who dislike homosexuality without exempting un-nice racists, anti-Semites, and anyone else who offers a religious pretext for an odious practice.

Gordon's "journalism" here is useless as a source of information, but it does offer a glimpse into what the Bush Administration wants the public to ponder as it methodically constructs a pretext for attacking Iran.

The taboo was a pretext for extortion.

This later became a pretext for defending "Russia's citizens".