Sentence examples for on a pretext from inspiring English sources
Was America taken to war on a pretext?
Like the Qing dynasty, the communists invaded Tibet on a pretext.
"Beria had Eliava shot in 1937 on a pretext," Teimuraz says matter-of-factly.
When he broke off the engagement on a pretext, she flew to his side.
In theory, this minor policy shift could reduce the number of people arrested on a pretext and held for deportation.
First, EI's founder, Julia Hobsbawm, had to rescue the trophy from Wolf on a pretext about it requiring a polish.
The champion neocon pitches up to chide Europe for failing to rein in Putin and failing to uphold the principle that big countries just can't invade small ones on a flimsy pretext.
Instead, they focus their attention on creating a pretext to allow not only the nations of the Arab world, but the world as a whole, to condemn Israel for acting in a way it must act to protect itself.
The agency has used the war on terrorism as it used the war on communism, as a pretext for abusing human rights.
They attend birthday parties on weekends as a pretext for drinking.
Conservationists claim the sorghum cropping on Olive Vale is a pretext for clearing land for grazing, which the LNP in government said its laws would not allow.
