Sentence examples for order pretext from inspiring English sources

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Conger's report to Stanton, however, stated that Corbett shot Booth "without order, pretext or excuse," and recommended that Corbett be punished for disobeying orders to take Booth alive.

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For the lower classes, however, the anniversary was a chance to pit disorder against order, a pretext for violence and uncontrolled revelry.

Yet another theory, boosted by this week's announcement of military co-operation, is that Mr Yeltsin may proclaim a full-blooded union of Belarus and Russia and use the new constitutional order as a pretext to put off a presidential election altogether.The mystery of Mr Yeltsin's intentions is equalled only by that of Mr Primakov, now enjoying the healthy air of Switzerland after a back operation.

Trump's order is a pretext for illegal discrimination, Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin said in a statement.

Karadžić and the Bosnian Serb leadership used Izetbegović's mobilization order as a pretext to independence and mobilized their Municipal Crisis Headquarters, reserve police units, and TO forces.

Casey, the law professors explain, "calls for searching judicial examination of both the purpose and effect of a health-justified abortion regulation, in order to identify pretext and to ensure that the burdens imposed... are not disproportionate as compared to their health benefits".

Charging that the South Korean military alert was ordered "on the pretext of what is happening abroad," the statement said that South Korea's military leaders were actually "discussing measures regarding the North Korean military situation".

In a twist, Thierry is required to spy on shoppers and employees alike, and his bosses want him to keep especially close tabs on his co-workers in order to provide pretexts for firings with cause, because of the near-impossibility of gaining official permission for layoffs on economic grounds.

Distant from Jackson's other forces and ill-supplied, Loring and other officers petitioned the War Department to be recalled, and Benjamin, after consulting Davis, so ordered, using the pretext of rumored Union troop movements in the area.

The U.S. will ultimately accept a nuclear Iran, and will find another pretext in order to confront it.

Ayatollah Khamenei also warned judges to be mindful of how the judiciary conducted its operations "in order to avoid giving pretext to enemies or friendly criticism for challenges".

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