Sentence examples for on any pretext from inspiring English sources

The Russians were itching for war on any pretext.

Famous architects drop by on any pretext; none, though, is more famous than Niemeyer himself.

"Nobody can be given a license to kill on any pretext," the judge was quoted as saying after the end of the trial.

In 1868 Congress declared it unlawful to use the mail for letters or circulars concerning lotteries "or other similar enterprises on any pretext whatever".

The government has tried to cap increases at 5% this year, but landlords turf tenants out on any pretext and charge 30-40% more when they re-let.

She'd already missed too much school, staying home on any pretext and reliving all day, while I was at work, so there really were no limits, and who was being a bad father here?

I believe in protecting open land on almost any pretext and surely the dunes of South Truro deserve to be protected because they are part of the larger ecosystem of the Cape Cod National Seashore.

They seized th offensive by striking Stutz from the trading list, on one pretext or another.

"[Iftikhar could] manage to resolve the said cases in favour of Bahria Town … and on the said pretext repeatedly got favours in different shapes on one pretext of the other," Hussain's statement said.

On one trip, Eddie counted no fewer than 18 road blocks manned by police demanding money on one pretext or another.

Was America taken to war on a pretext?