Sentence examples for one pretext for from inspiring English sources

One pretext for the pairing of the Hudson and the Yangtze was Henry Hudson's failed 1609 quest to reach China by traveling up river through North America.

The Egyptian military has some reason to fear that its unsettled protodemocracy might be hijacked by Islamic extremists, which is one pretext for restoring a media-managing Information Ministry that was abolished after the fall of Hosni Mubarak.

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

Inward-turning and secretive, Joseph shies from intimacy; his festering shame over Rebecca makes one more pretext for isolation.

Any excuse to reissue old blues, country and ragtime songs is a good one, and the pretext for this collection of Victor Talking Machine Company recordings from the 1920's to the 1950's is that it's a chance to hear original or early versions of songs that folkies and rockers would later pick up, like "Statesboro Blues" or "Walk Right In".

"That document could have been written by Hoover's F.B.I. in the 40's and 50's," he said, complaining that it failed to justify the raid and served as a pretext for one of the largest instances of preventive detention in modern American history.

Moreno even admitted making a bogus 911 call about a sleeping vagrant to provide a pretext for one of the visits.

That was the standard picture, one that gave Europe a pretext for claiming the continent as its own and carving it up into surveyable, exploitable pieces.

Eliminating a position (i.e., middle child) as a pretext for replacing one child with another of a different name could result in litigation... Remember, terminated children aren't the only ones who have a hard time with layoffs.

"May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman," he said.

This was one of the pretexts for Kristallnacht, which erupted two days later.