Sentence examples for official pretext from inspiring English sources

The official pretext for the emergency laws is the country's state of war with Israel.

In 1922, however, the government unilaterally decided to confiscate all church valuables, under the official pretext that there was general starvation in large sections of the country.

The official pretext for this order was to keep "pornographic and reactionary" publications out of the city, but Southern Metropolitan News saw it as a conspiracy to curb its sales.

The official pretext for the relocation was the wartime destruction of the home island, but the British continued phosphate mining on Banaba, which soon made living conditions there impossible.

The official pretext for the Russian TV station Dozhd, or TV Rain, being taken off air as part of the Putin regime's recent crackdown on independent media was a counterfactual.

The official pretext for the brawl was the bikers' earnest and oft-articulated desire that the greaser slobs shut up, stop hassling the female patrons, and let everyone enjoy the concert.

The book describes how the agency sent a Russian nuclear scientist — who had defected to the United States and was secretly working for the C.I.A. — to Vienna in February 2000 to give plans for a nuclear bomb triggering device to an Iranian official under the pretext that he would provide further assistance in exchange for money.

The resulting Law of 20 May never applied to colonies like Guadeloupe or Guyane, even though rogue generals and other officials used the pretext of peace as an opportunity to reinstate slavery in some of these places.

Albeit there is no legal or religious sanction against women's presence in stadiums, officials use the pretext that male-dominated atmosphere in sport stadiums is not appropriate for women.

Tocqueville and Beaumont diligently visited American prisons (the most famous of which were Sing Sing and the Eastern State Penitentiary, in Philadelphia), but the official project was a pretext for a much larger, private endeavor: Tocqueville wanted to see what the future looked like, and to write a great book about it.

Although the Court ruled that the government can condemn property for virtually any "public purpose," it also noted that "pretextual" takings – condemnations where the official rationale is a pretext "for the purpose of conferring a private benefit on a particular private party" are still unconstitutional.