Sentence examples similar to ostensible pretext from inspiring English sources

The war in Iraq had multiple pretexts, both idealistic and pragmatic: containing an ostensible threat, rescuing Iraqis from a monster, sowing seeds of freedom in an oppressed region.

Previous American leaders preferred to fabricate pretexts -- the sinking of the Maine, the ostensible attacks on American warships in the Gulf of Tonkin -- rather than admit they were going in unprovoked.

The ostensible reason — get this!

September 11th was a pretext.

At least, ostensible ones.

But decommissioning is a pretext.

Security is a pretext".

His ostensible mandate was reform.

A pretext to detain a foreign national?

They just killed them without any pretext".

"On the slightest pretext, they execute people".