Sentence examples for on some pretext from inspiring English sources

They leased a cottage in Woodside, got Willie out there on some pretext one afternoon in May, 1897, and murdered him.

But they risk arrest on some pretext, and harassment even without one.Elections for the People's Assembly are held every five years, and the next one is due in November.

At the last minute, on some pretext, he replaced Bakst with a Russian modernist, Léopold Survage.

The government has also started various investigations of Yunus and his finances and taxes, and his supporters fear that he might be arrested on some pretext or another.

Now all they had to do was set up a meeting (at which Riquelme and the Spanish journalist wanted to be present) on some pretext, whatever — for example, an interview for an Argentine newspaper, with a surprise ending.

Kidnapping into slavery in the United States Mr Solomon Northrop, a free coloured citizen of this State, born in Essex county, while residing at Saratoga in 1841, was hired on some pretext to go to the South.

"For Putin, it would not be a very interesting — or a very useful — situation, to have to send one more oligarch to the gulag on some invented pretext like tax evasion," a political commentator, Dmitri Oreshkin, told the radio station Ekho Moskvy.

South Africa belongs to them and he is there on some shaky pretext, a historical misunderstanding.

During previous spells of "freedom", it has ignored her for a while, gradually tightened restrictions on her, and then found some pretext to lock her up again.

Violet sees a friend in a nearby car and confesses that she isn't a runaway but had to invent some pretext for knocking on Philip's door.

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